International and National or Suburban (KTEL) Buses to Athens are mainly driven to Kifisos National Bus Station from where changing bus to other destinations is possible.  The second Bus Terminal of Athens is Liosion Bus Sttion.  Liosion Station is used for a few nearby destinations. In Pedion Areos is the departure for Athens KTEL Suburban Buses.

Kifisos Bus Station is connected by city buses to Piraeus Port and the centre of Athens, with a ticket of 1.40 euros and with the Athens airport with a ticket of 3.20 euros.

If you use a taxi to an Athens destination or the Piraeus it shouldn’t cost you – in normal traffic conditions – more than 15 euros. To go to the Athens International Airport you shouldn’t pay more than 40 euros.

Finally, some International itineraries to the Balkans are departed from Larissis Rail Station. All these stations are near the centre of Athens and connection with public transportation is easy. Taxi charges to the most of Athens destinations should not be more than 15 euros.

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Greek Railway System has two centres; Athens and Thessaloniki, which are connected with a lot of daily itineraries. International routes end at Athens through Thessaloniki.

Though the final destination of the trains is Piraeus Port, the main Railway Station of Athens is Larissis Station. Larissis Station and nearby Peloponese Station (they are connected with a bridge) are the two main rail stations fro the domestic itineraries. Larissis is the departure station to the central and northern parts of Greece, while Peloponese Station is the departure place to the south.

The Railway Stations are almost at the centre of the city of Athens, so a taxi shouldn’t charge you more than 10n euros (apr. 15.00 dollars) for the most destinations in the city. In Larissis Station there is a Metro Station that you can use to reach the main spots of Athens. The metro ticket costs 0.80 euros (apr. 1.20 dollars).

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Athens area is reached by sea mainly through the Port of Piraeus (you may see it also written as Pireas).

There are not a lot of international itineraries for the public simply because there are no passengers to travel abroad from Piraeus with a boat, but there are a lot of Cruise Ships that use Piraeus and Athens as their destination.

Piraeus is mainly used for domestic transportation to the Greek islands of the Aegean Sea. You can check the itineraries from Piraeus to the Aegean Islands by visiting our Piraeus Itineraries page. You should also check the Gate that your ship boards from on the Piraeus Port Map, to avoid getting lost or losing your boat.

Rafina and Lavrion are two secondary ports of Athens that are used to connect Athens with small and/or near islands. Finally, if you travel from or to Italy ports you may use the Patras Port.

Maritime companies of ships boarding to Italian ports Bari, Printezi and Venice offer a combination of bus and ship service from Athens to Italy.

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Athens new Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH) is established at the Spata area at east Attica.

Connection to Athens airport is possible from all over the world through flights of the major international airlines.

Greece has two main airlines that provide domestic and international flights. They are Olympic Air (OA) and Aegean Airlines (A3).

Other major airlines that provide international flights to and from Athens (ATH) and Thessaloniki (SKG) are British Airways (BA), Air France (AF), Lufthansa (LH), Alitalia (AZ), Iberia Airlines (IB) and many more.

Athens and Greece in general is a safe destination to fly to, due to lack of terrorism action and really low accident frequency.

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