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How to go to Sabiha Gokcen Airport from the City Center?

Put into service in the year 2001 together with its elegant architecture, functional means of transport, and airport services, Sabiha Gokcen Airport has been named after Sabiha Gokcen, Turkey's first female pilot and the world's first female fighter pilot. Sabiha Gokcen Airport is the only airport of Istanbul Anatolian side and Turkey's second highest capacity airport.

In addition to the easiness of transportation to the centers like Pendik, Kartal, Bostanci, Kadıkoy, Taksim, Besiktas, Levent, it also provides the cities like Kocaeli, Sakarya, Yalova, Duzce, Bolu, and Bursa with transportation opportunity. Having a strategic position in Turkey's air traffic, approximately 30 million domestic and international passenger flights are performed at Sabiha Gokcen Airport every year.

Taxi

Although the factors like traffic density, weather conditions, work start and finish times can be determinant, taxi is a transportation option you can prefer to go to Sabiha Gokcen Airport.

By taxi you can find almost everywhere in Istanbul, you can go up to the departing passenger gate easily. You can use various taxi fare calculation applications to calculate the cost of a taxi journey in Istanbul.

Havabus

Havabus that provides shuttle bus service from certain points in European and Anatolian sides for a direct transfer to Sabiha Gokcen Airport from the city center is one of the alternatives preferred for fast transportation.

Serving from Taksim, Kadıkoy, and Yenisahra, Havabus provides a practical service by departing at brief intervals. For detailed information on Havabus services and fares, please click here.

Marmaray-Metro

You can benefit from the developed public transport system of the city to go to the airport. You can come to Ayrilik Cesmesi by riding the Marmaray trains, where you can change to Kadikoy-Kartal metro. After getting to Kartal, you can get on E-9 buses that go to Sabiha Gokcen Airport.

Bus

There are bus services that will enable you to get to Sabiha Gokcen Airport from numerous points in Anatolian and European sides.

You can ride the buses number E11and E10 departing from Kadıkoy, E9 from Bostanci, E18 from Altunizade and Umraniye and KM20 from Pendik. If you will go to the airport from 4. Levent, the bus number E3 will help you.

Car Rental

You can use the car rental firms that have branches at the airport to go to Sabiha Gokcen Airport.

You can visit the national and international car rental offices in Istanbul. Besides, you can ensure that your car is prepared in advance by booking one online.

General Information on Kars

Kars, an Eastern Anatolia Region city that is virtually a winter postcard, has been one of the most popular destinations recently. In this city that looks like a fable land for its natural beauties, archaeological findings suggest that the first settlement started 1 million years ago. Kars that has hosted many civilizations throughout its history also maintains numerous Eastern Anatolian and Caucasian cultures in its lands, as it is also a border city.

Kars that hosts numerous historical artifacts is flooded by visitors thanks to its numerous historical sites like Ani Ruins, Church of Apostles, and Kars Fortress. This city that reflects its wide cultural spectrum in its cuisine as well is a brand name in Turkey and the world for its honey and yellow cheese.

How to go to the City Center from Kars Harakani Airport?

Open to civil transportation traffic since 1988, Kars Harakani Airport is Turkey's highest airport with an altitude of 1795 meters. 7 km to the city center, Kars Harakani Airport also provides the customs and passport services for the international flights. An air transport bridge for the neighboring cities, there are direct or connecting flights to numerous cities from Kars Harakani Airport. It is possible to find numerous practical transfer options from Kars Harakani Airport thanks to its closeness to the city center.

Taxi

You can prefer taxi that is the fastest and the most comfortable alternative to go to the city center from Kars Harakani Airport. You can go to the city center or any point you want in the city by taxi you can find easily in front of the airport terminal exit.

Bus

Buses and minibuses can also be preferred as an alternative means of transport to the city center from Kars Harakani Airport. By riding the buses that depart separately for each flight, you can go to the Lion Statues in the city center. You can go to the bus terminal from the city center through a brief trip to go to the neighboring cities or the touristic points like Ani Ruins, or ride the Sarikamis municipality buses departing from the city center to go to Sarikamis Ski Center.

Car Rental

If you prefer a private means of transport to go anywhere in the city and the neighboring cities from Kars Harakani Airport, car rental will be a good alternative. You can make your transactions in the car rental firm at Kars Harakani Airport.

What to eat in Kars?

Kars is a city that satisfies its guests in terms of taste variety and gourmet meals. You can try the original tastes freshly in the restaurants in the city center and the districts as well as the stores that sell local products.

The first two tastes you must try in this city are the world-renowned “Kars gruyere cheese” and “Kars aged yellow cheese”. These cheese types are prepared in the form of big wheels. You can buy these cheeses in whole or in pieces, as you wish. You can carry the cheeses you can buy here in vacuum packages to your city in aircraft. Since they are hard and waterless, they will last until you arrive in your destination.

“Kars honey” is also a taste you must try in the city and take with you while returning to your home. The flowers and trees that constitute the natural beauties of Kars are the perfect eden for the bees. The honeydew and flower honeys created through combination of the nectars collected from this special flora by the bees have the aromas you have not tasted anywhere else. This is the perfect opportunity for those who miss and cannot find natural honey.

One of the most important tastes that must be tried in Kars where stockbreeding is widespread is goose meat. The goose meat is cooked in different recipes in numerous restaurants in the city. This meat is generally served in the form of bone-in meat or fillet on bulgur/rice pilaf or in the form of stew potions of again bone-in meat or fillet. You can eat warm soups like “ayran asi soup” in the city and experience Kars cuisine to the fullest with “umac halva” that is a more grainy form of flour halva, which is special to Kars.

Where to stay in Kars?

Since Kars has globally attention-grabbing places like Ani Ruins and Sarikamis Ski Center, there are many accommodation options of high-quality. Almost all of the hotels have free Wi-Fi. You can benefit from the services special to the guests, like the restaurants, in the hotels.

Kars hotels are clustered in the city center and Sarikamis in general. There is no hotel in or with a view of Ani Ruins, but you can stay in a central hotel that is almost two kilometers to the ruins and visit the ruins by car or a day-trip you can buy in the city center.

If you will visit Sarikamis Ski Center, you can stay comfortably in the hotels around the center.

The guests who will stay in Kars can book rooms in Kars hotels online, by phone, or personally in the hotel. However, since it is busy in special days, during festivals, commemoration days, and in the months when the ski season starts, it is beneficial for you to make your plans in advance against the possibility of unavailability of a vacant room. Other than the hotels, there are boarding houses, the guest house of Kars University, and one teacher’s lodge and police lodge in the city center.

Kars is one of the cities that must be seen absolutely with its sights, unique natural beauties, authentic tastes, easy transportation, and numerous shopping and accommodation options.

Must-Do's in Kars

With an Istanbul-Kars flight ticket, AnadoluJet carries you to Kars that enchants people with its natural and historical beauties. The city that bears the traces of different cultures and civilizations is a wonderful exploration point with its impressive historical heritage defying the ages. For the snowy mountains that accompany the historical texture of the city, the points where you will witness the most beautiful scenes of nature, and many more, you should explore the AnadoluJet Istanbul-Kars route. It is necessary to tour the city of Kars, which is admired by its visitors for each one of its details, in detail to experience it thoroughly. Here are the things you must do absolutely in Kars.

• Visit the historical Kars Fortress located at the center of Kars, on the hill overlooking the city.
• Wander the streets of Kars. See the historical buildings that constitute an important heritage of Baltic architecture. Make sure to see the Revenue Office Building.
• Visit Namik Kemal House where one of the most renowned Turkish men of letters lived during his childhood.
• See the historical heritage and ethnographic artifacts of the city in the Kars Museum.
• Go on a journey into the depths of the city’s history in Ani Ruins. See the important buildings like Horomos Monastery, Church of Young Girls, and Fethiye Mosque.
• See hundreds of bird species in the Kuyucuk Bird Sanctuary.
• Participate in the ice fishing activities in company with master fishers on the Lake Cildir that is frozen in winter. Have an unforgettable day at the Lake Cildir Festival.
• Enjoy skiing on the mountains covered with spotlessly white snow in Sarikamis Ski Center.
• Explore Kars cuisine renowned for goose in Tandoor, Hengel dumpling, and Hosaf drink.
• Taste the red-spotted fish caught in the frozen lakes of Kars.
• Participate in the off-road tours organized on snowy terrains.
• Eat the chestnuts roasted on heating stoves in the local restaurants of Kars.