M11 metro to GayrettepeorHavaist coach to Taksim?

From

Istanbul Airport metro station, signposted from arrivals. Buy or top up the İstanbulkart before the gates

To

Gayrettepe, on the M2, three stops from Taksim; Kağıthane three minutes earlier

Luggage

TCDD's rule for the line: nothing over 30 kg or larger than 120 x 50 x 60 cm, and no goods trolleys. Ordinary metro cars without racks.

Runs

06:03–00:17

Journey

30 min

Do not TAP a bank card. The reader will take it, and the tariff charges it as a three-ride single-use ticket: TRY 185 instead of TRY 42.34. Buy an anonymous İstanbulkart at the station before the gate.

The gate takes TRY 47.89 on entry — the fare of the longest ride possible from the airport — and refunds TRY 5.55 when you tap out at Gayrettepe. Load at least that much.

The price of the card itself is not published. No authority publishes it. It is small next to what the card saves.

Last train 00:17, at Gayrettepe 00:47 — after the M2 has stopped for the night on Sunday to Thursday (Metro İstanbul gives 06:00–00:00). On Friday and Saturday nights the M2 runs through as a night line, charged at double fare from 00:30.

The M11 is not a night line and has no Friday or Saturday extension: one timetable, every day. Between 00:17 and 06:03 see the H-2 bus and the Havaist coaches.

Kağıthane and Gayrettepe cost the same TRY 42.34; staying on to Halkalı costs TRY 47.89 — the whole of what the gate took.

Every Havaist and İETT airport fare here is set by the same İBB tariff, which was revised in February and again in July 2026. Check the tariff index for the current figure.

M11 metro to Gayrettepe: price for every party size →

From

Transportation floor -2, Peron 16; the Havaist counters are on the same floor

To

Taksim Square. Some departures run via 4. Levent, Zincirlikuyu Metrobüs and Beşiktaş; the rest go express via Nurtepe

Luggage

Two bags of no more than medium size free per passenger; TRY 120 for each bag beyond that. Tell the crew your stop when you hand a bag over — it is unloaded only there.

Runs

All night

Journey

90 min

It runs through the night with one hole. From the airport: 00:30, 01:15, 02:15, then nothing until 04:30, then 05:30 and roughly every 40 minutes through the day to 23:45. Land at 02:30 and the wait is two hours.

Eleven times the metro fare, for a seat, a hold, a stop in the square itself and a night service. By day the M11 plus three M2 stops is TRY 76.74 and about 45 minutes.

The 90 minutes is Havaist's own figure; the operator warns that routes and times change with traffic and asks you to be at the stop before departure.

Which of the two Taksim routings a departure takes is marked on Havaist's timetable in orange (via Beşiktaş) or blue (express); both end at Taksim.

A third bag, or an oversized one, is TRY 120 — a quarter of the fare again.

Havaist coach to Taksim: price for every party size →