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Besides its comfy traditional ferryboats, Istanbul has big,
fast, very comfortable "sea
bus" catamaran commuter ferries (deniz
otobüsü).
You can use your Akbil electronic
transit pass to ride the sea buses.
The sea buses zoom
up and down the Bosphorus and
across the Sea
of Marmara, with most service being
during the morning and evening rush
hours.
Because of their speed, catamarans
run the longer routes in Istanbul's
maritime transport system, leaving
the shorter routes to the comfy, traditional ferryboats.
The principal catamaran dock is the Yenikapi
Feribot Terminali on the Sea
of Marmara shore south of Aksaray
Square. Yenikapi serves both sea
buses and fast
car ferries (hizli feribot).
A smaller sea bus terminal is at Kabatas on
the southern shore of the Bosphorus (European
side) just south of Dolmabahçe
Palace.
There's limited service to and from Eminönü and Karaköy (Galata)
as well.
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