M11 metro to GayrettepeorİETT bus H-2 to Mecidiyeköy (night only)?

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 — the İETT stop the timetable calls İstanbul Havalimanı Garaj

To

Mecidiyeköy Metrobüs, beside Şişli-Mecidiyeköy on the M2, two stops from Taksim

Luggage

An İETT express bus; İETT publishes no luggage rule for it.

Runs

01:10–05:45

Journey

105 min

This line only exists at night. 01:10, 03:30 and 05:45 from the airport, every day. Miss the 03:30 and the next bus is over two hours away; after 05:45 take the metro, which starts at 06:03.

It is the cheapest thing that moves between 00:17 and 06:03 — TRY 92.40 against TRY 470 on the Havaist coach — and it takes 105 minutes to Mecidiyeköy.

The night fare is an open question. İbb's tariff doubles bus fares between 00:30 and 05:30 unless a decision says otherwise, and no document read here says whether one exists for the H-2. Budget for the rule as written on the 01:10 and 03:30 departures.

Pay with an İstanbulkart: a bank card is charged at the single-use price, TRY 120.

Mecidiyeköy is a Metrobüs and M2 interchange, not a square with hotels on it; the M2 will not be running when the 01:10 or 03:30 arrives except on Friday and Saturday nights.

İETT bus H-2 to Mecidiyeköy (night only): price for every party size →