Tehran Transportation

The IKIA (Imam Khomeini International Airport) is located around 35km from the city center. The taxi outside the arrival hall operates as cartel such that the taxi fare is standard among any taxi you try to approach. It costs IR150,000 (May 08). If you approach taxi outside the queue, other taxi drviers will shout and at the end, you still go back to the taxi you are directed.

We flew to Tehran by Alitalia (a totally irrelevant fact) early in the morning, and the same day in the early evening we had an Iran Air flight to Yazd. International flights land at Imam Khomeini Airport, about 45-90 minutes from the city centre (intending for it the Golestan Palace) depending on the traffic.

Domestic flights leave from Merhabad Airport, which by taxi is about 20-40 minutes from the Golestan Palace. Note that the two airports are no-way near each other, nor are they linked - making it impossible to catch any connecting flight, unless it is roughly 5-6 hours later from the moment you land. All in all, it's best to spend one day in Tehran before taking off to your next destination.

2. beside those taxis, some of the normal people work as taxi driver too.their cars aren't any special color...like all of the cars in the street...actually the main job of the drivers isn't "taxi driver"...they have another job but sometimes they carry passegers too...they're a bit cheaper than real taxi but not as safe as they are.
The government is trying to manage these taxis in order to make them safe...

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The best and the safest way of transportation! but ofcourse you have to pay more for that.
The hotel can take u one easily.
There are 2 kinds of taxi in Tehran :
1. Real taxi : it's totally clear that they are taxi, they have special colors (as u see in the pictures) yellow or green, with orange band on them. You can see them in the streets.
and u can call some of them , everywhere u are, and they'll pick u up.
And there are some taxi s that are only for women, the drivers are women too.(they are all green and u can see that the driver is a woman) if u wanted to call them to pick u up where ever u are, use this telephone number : 021-1821

The subway (metro) is the best way of transportation for people in Tehran...the traffic in tehran is terrible...so people some of the people prefer to use subways,they're fast...so they're getting more crowded everyday.
But it's the best way to go around Tehran...specially if u want to go the south parts...
and again it'll be crowded sometimes...VERY crowded

U can use bus to go everywhere u want in Tehran...but at some special times of the day like 7 till 9 AM and 6 till 8 PM, most of them are really crowded...but except from that times, if u exactly know the address u can use bus...they're really cheap.
In the pictures u can see one of those poor buses that is exploding...as u see students are going back home.

Tehran have two Airport , Mehrabad near Azadi Sq for local fly and Emamkhomeini for abroad , for take ticket is better use from travel agency in city because in airport you can not find ticket . but i must say one note to you : Iran airliner is old and i think is better you travel with Bus and railway .

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In Tehran when you like take Taxi really dont have problem because personal car like Taxi transfer people in City , but for more information in Tehran is some sort Taxi , Orange and white , Blue and white , yellow , Green , but alles transfer traveler , but i think orange and white is better and cheaper , in Tehran now is around 600 women Taxi ,