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The most comfortable way to travel
by train between Istanbul and
Greece is on the Dostluk/Filia
(Friendship) Express, which departs
each city late in the evening and
arrives in the opposite city the
next morning, an 11-hour trip.
You must change trains at Thessaloniki
to travel to or from Athens. There
are no direct Athens-Istanbul trains.
The Dostluk/Filia
Ekspresi hauls only air-conditioned sleeping
cars (no normal passenger cars).
It departs from Istanbul's Sirkeci
Station. More...
The bus is
much faster, and cheaper, but not as
comfortable for sleeping.
There is also a slow
day train (IC91) which departs Istanbul (Sirkeci)
daily at breakfast time and arrives
in Thessaloniki after about 14 hours.
The bus is much faster.
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