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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 Konya

Konya, Turkey's largest city in terms of surface area, is also one of the most crowded cities of the Central Anatolia Region. In addition to hosting numerous other civilizations, this city was the capital of the Principality of Karaman and the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate.

This land, which witnessed the life and teaching of Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi in addition to its own peculiar culture and historical texture, is also the city where Nasreddin Hodja lived. Konya, where you can find many traces of history, calls its visitors with its dynamic city life, Maulana Museum, natural beauties, and famous local tastes like oven kebab, meat bread, and sac arasi (a kind of pastry).

How to go to the City Center from Konya Airport?

Active since the year 2000, Konya Airport is on Konya-Ankara highway in Selcuklu. Located 20 km to the city center, domestic and international flights are performed at Konya Airport. Konya Airport, which allows you to go to many destinations in Turkey on direct or connecting flights, serves its passengers 24 hours a day every day of the year. There are various transportation options from this airport, which has a heavy air traffic due to its central position and frequent flow of visitors, to the city center and numerous other points in the city.

Taxi

If you want to go from Konya Airport to the city center and many other points in the city rapidly and comfortably, you can use the taxi option. The taxis you can find easily in front of the exit gates of the domestic flights and international flights terminals every hour of the day charge the same price throughout all 24 hours. It takes 30 minutes on average to go to the city center from Konya Airport by taxi.

Havas

You can prefer Havas shuttle buses as a fast and economical option to go to the city center from Konya Airport. You can go to Konya city center by Havas shuttle bus that departs after deboarding of the passengers of each aircraft that has landed at the airport.

Car Rental

You can go to the city center through a private travel by benefiting from the options of renting a car meeting your needs from the car rental offices available at Konya Airport.

You can select a car in any segment from the car rental firms under the roof of Konya Airport.

What to eat in Konya?

Konya, which shows the Central Anatolian culture in its cuisine successfully, welcomes its guests with delicious meat dishes, soups, and pitas. This city, which offers an option for each palate, includes its own peculiar tastes. Konya cuisine is dominated by meat dishes and pastry. Pastries made of salted and salt-free flour types are mostly accompanied by animal source foods. Meat bread, Maulana pita, bicak arasi (a type of meat pita) are the best examples.

You can see the tastes like tirit, tandoor, arabasi soup, oven kebab, sac arasi, yogurt soup, kaygana, and batirik in the menus of the restaurants concentrated on local meals in Konya.

Where to stay in Konya?

There are many accommodation options in Konya that is regarded as one of Turkey's biggest cities. There are many alternatives ranging from boarding houses to 5-star hotels in Konya that will meet the accommodation needs of every budget. Konya hotels are concentrated in the city center in general. If you want to be near the city center, you can prefer the hotels in Selcuklu and Karatay. If you want to stay in a calm place, Meram region will help you.

Must-Do's in Konya

With an Istanbul-Konya flight ticket, AnadoluJet carries you to Konya, one of the centers of tolerance and Sufism. Mevlana’s old city, impressing with its Sufi aspects, Konya will meet you with its historical buildings, cultural heritage, and natural beauties. We explore Konya, which offers its visitors an opportunity for an unforgettable travel thanks to its impressive texture, together. Here are the places you must see and the things you must do in Konya travel absolutely:

• Visit the tomb of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi in the Mevlana Museum.
• Watch the matchless Sema rituals in Mevlana Cultural Center.
• Visit Karatay Madrasa and see the enameled tiles and stonework surviving from the Anatolian Seljuk Era.
• Explore the deep-rooted, thousands of years old history of the city in the Konya Museum of Archeology.
• See the daily life articles like carpets, jewelry, kitchenware bearing the traces of the periods lived in the region in the Konya Museum of Ethnography.
• Visit Sems-i Tabrizi Tomb and Sems-i Tebrizi Mosque.
• Visit the thematic exhibitions in Konya Science Center. Do not forget to see the parts like open-air exhibitions and the observation tower.
• Taste the famous local flavors of Konya ranging from tirit to meat bread.
• Go on a journey into the depths of history in Catalhoyuk Neolithic Settlement.
• Take a shopping tour in the Historical Bedesten Bazaar in Konya city center. Buy local outfits, delicacies, and hand-crafted products to your heart’s content.
• Visit the historical mosques that are the most beautiful mirrors of the Seljuk and Ottoman eras. Make sure to see Aziziye Mosque and Thin Minaret Madrasa.
• Examine the most important enameled tile works of the Anatolian Seljuk State in Karatay Madrasa.
• Visit Konya Tropical Butterfly Garden. Observe the butterflies brought from all over the world in the garden that includes a fauna composed of thousands of different plant species.
• Have a day full of green in Meram Baglari. Have a picnic at the picnic site. Ride a pedalo on Meram Creek that enchants its visitors with its turquoise color.
• Have an entertaining day in 80 Binde Devr-i Alem Theme Park!
• Rest in lush green nature in Kyoto Japanese Park.
• Walk around the historical Sille streets among the Anatolian Seljuk heritage.
• Visit Konya Tulip Gardens in spring.
• Taste the organic fruits sold in Women's Bazaar.