Bursa Transportation

As I have noted elsewhere, travel through Turkey by bus is easy, comfortable, fast, and reasonable. This is true of Bursa, a major city, which has a large and nice bus station (otogar). One can catch a huge range of buses here, from smaller local-run buses going to nearby cities and provinces, or the fancier long-haul buses, with routes going directly to all the major cities and regional centres around the country. They run frequently and are generally extremely clean, well-run, and comfortable, with snacks, tea, movies, etc., on the longer-haul buses.

There is no train. Bus is possible, but if you take the bus the entire way, you have to cross the bridge, fight possible traffic and cross the city.

Personally, I'd recommend taking the ferry from Yenikapi terminal to Yalova. From there you can take a bus or dolmus to Bursa. You can find these right outside the ferry terminal.

Even if you were driving yourself, this ferry allows cars which I recommend again to avoid the traffic and extra distance driving.

Seabus is the fast way of reaching Bursa from Istanbul. From Yenikapi seabus terminal, you can reach Bursa in 1.5 hours. The first hour will be with the seabus and the last half hour will be with the connecting shuttle bus. The price varies according to demand, but this way of travel definitely saves time. You can find the schedule in the link provided below.

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There are many bus companies operating between Istanbul and Bursa. I haven't particularly provided any company name as there are several available. If you think about a short escapade, all you need to do is to get to bus terminal and catch the first bus leaving. Within this bus trip, you also have a ferry ride between Eskihisar and Topcular to cut the bus ride short along Gemlik Bay. The whole trip should take about 4 hours with 40 minutes of ferry included. You can feed the seagulls which follow the ferry until the end of the ferry trip. Reaching Bursa by bus is cheaper compared to taking the seabus. However, it takes more time. If you have limited budget and enough time, take the bus. If your time is limited, I suggest you take the seabus from Istanbul.

Most of the places of interest have parking. The city can be fairly busy and parking difficult to find, but street parking is always an option. Look at the signs because some streets allow parking only for deliveries and cargo.

For most of the sites in the central city area, there is a parking garage near the shopping mall, just to the side of Kozahan market and Ulucami mosque.

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There are two bus service company in Bursa first one is BOI municipality own public bus service and other OHO private bus service both are using the same transportation cards wth the Bursaray light metro. and OHO buses are also collecting cash money on board.You can find buses ewery where in the city.

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Uludag is a mountain resort in Bursa and there is a Teleferic line which climbes to the top from the city center .Theres 2 frases first from Teferrüc to Bakacak than from Bakacak to Sarialan there you can take the smaller telecabins for getting further......

Getting to Bursa is not as tricky as it looks, as long as you do some sort of planning.

I flew from London Heathrow (LHR) to Istanbul (IST), an early morning four hour trip, cost £220.

Then it was taxi bus to the Yenikapi ferry terminal and a fast cat across the water, a bus to the metro station and then a metro train into Bursa city centre.