Turkey Trip 2026 : Day 3 (Ankara Metro)

I get very excited by metro systems and so this was another new one for me. This is the walkway from the coach station to the metro station.

We didn’t have to faff about buying a ticket in the way we did on the Istanbul metro, it was all contactless. It didn’t work properly and I got charged twice (I hardly mentioned that wasted £1 to Jonathan), but we successfully got through the platform.

For anyone interested, here’s the network map. There are currently three lines and 57 stations, although it’s currently going through an expansion and more stations are being added.

It all rather reminded me of the metro system in Glasgow, although the older trains are actually modelled on the Toronto metro network. It was also clean, efficient and functional, being good value for money and even better if I had been charged once.