One passenger pays £20.08, every fee included. Services cover 251 km and are run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at £20.08, so there is no spread to show.
Typical fares · Priced for 26 October 2026
£20.08
- 114%Moves across the booking window
114%Departure times on this route
Departure times on this route12Go lists the departures it sells between Yalova and Istanbul.
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Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about £35.16Wed7
- about £43.17Thu8
- about £39.88Fri9
- about £34.22Sat10
- about £34.69Sun11
- about £24.32Mon12
- about £29.98Tue13
- about £24.79Wed14
- about £27.15Thu15
- about £29.04Fri16
- about £29.04Sat17
- about £23.84Sun18
- about £24.79Mon19
- about £22.90Tue20
- about £21.96Wed21
- about £22.90Thu22
- about £22.44Fri23
- about £25.25Sat24
- about £24.79Sun25
- about £20.08Mon26
- about £21.96Tue27
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
The train gets you into Istanbul. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
A room in Istanbul for the night the train gets in
Sort by distance from Istanbul Halkali and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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When to book Yalova to Istanbul
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- £18.6690 days
- £24.7960 days
- £22.4345 days
- £20.5430 days
- £21.9621 days
- £22.9014 days
- £29.987 days
- £39.883 days
- £35.161 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at £18.66.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 114 percent. The dearest point is £39.88, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
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This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Yalova to Istanbul and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.
The shape of it
251 km
48 km as the crow flies, 423% further by the route services take. The bearing runs north-west.
Who lives at each end
71,289 → 15,701,602
Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.
The route
What the journey looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 251 km against 48 km in a straight line, a detour of 423 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Eskişehir, Bursa. The gap between arriving and leaving is 79 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 12 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is ours to fix and you are rebooked at no charge.
Istanbul is large, and the road in from IST can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.
A car waiting when you land in Istanbul
Settled in advance, so the ride into Istanbul costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.
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Who runs this route
The train gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Left luggage near Istanbul Halkali
Most of the points near Istanbul Halkali open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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Questions about Yalova to Istanbul
The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does it take to get from Yalova to Istanbul?
Yalova to Istanbul covers 251 km. Each operator's own departure and arrival times for the date you pick are in the search at the top of this page, beside the total price.
How much does it cost to travel from Yalova to Istanbul?
The cheapest fare from Yalova to Istanbul is £20.08, as of 6 October 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is £36.81. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
What is the cheapest way to get from Yalova to Istanbul?
The cheapest way from Yalova to Istanbul is by train, at £20.08 for one passenger on 26 October 2026. The comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs side by side.
When should I book Yalova to Istanbul?
Fares from Yalova to Istanbul bottom out around 90 days before departure, at £18.66. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 114 percent, measured on 6 October 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Yalova to Istanbul?
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Yalova to Istanbul, at £22.90. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 6 October 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Yalova to Istanbul?
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Yalova to Istanbul, at £20.08 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
Who runs services from Yalova to Istanbul?
1 operators sell services from Yalova to Istanbul across 1 mode: TCDD Taşımacılık. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
Is there a direct service from Yalova to Istanbul?
0 percent of the services we sell from Yalova to Istanbul are direct. The rest connect at Eskişehir, Bursa, with about 79 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Which station or terminal do services from Yalova to Istanbul use?
Services from Yalova to Istanbul by train leave from Yalova station and arrive at Istanbul Halkali. Allow about 44m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
Can I change or refund a ticket from Yalova to Istanbul?
1 of the 1 operators we sell from Yalova to Istanbul allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs £4.28. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
Where these numbers come from
Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.
Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
Being on the water gives Istanbul a set of days out that do not start at a station.
Day trips out of Istanbul and across Türkiye
Day trips that leave Istanbul in the morning and cover a good part of Türkiye by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Yalova reaches 9 places in 1 countries on services we hold, over distances from 48 to 880 km. Istanbul reaches 322 places in 88 countries, from 47 to 14,949 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Yalova
- 9Places you can leave for
- 1Countries
- 1Operators
1
1Arriving in Istanbul
Leaving Istanbul
- 322Places you can leave for
- 88Countries
- 81Operators