Easy access Blue line tram station service Sultanament. This particular station is close to…read moremultiple attractions, including the hippodrome Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque. The tram is a pretty efficient way to get around the city. The trams are fairly clean, but it can be totally feast or famine. Sometimes crowded and I'm talking to faces crammed up against the windows crowded or sometimes not.

The Taksin T5 tram line is very convenient and fun to ride. This station is very new, really the…read morewhole tram system is. Don't waste your time and money on taxis, Istanbul is easily traversed by tram and bus. Google maps public transport sort of works, if you know your destination bring it up on your phone and any worker can help you get on in the right direction and the right bus to connect even without you speaking Turkish or them understanding your American English. Now, the ticket machines are little harder to figure out, but we soon were able to buy tickets in Turkish. By "we," I mean my Chief of Staff, I held the umbrella which is an important job. In addition to Google maps public transportation, use the Metro Istanbul website : https://www.metro.istanbul/Hatlarimiz/HatDetay?hat=T5 This particular tram stop rescued us from a long day following one of Rick Steve's many good walking tours that all take me longer than he says they will. We also ended up here to see the Yeni Cami (New Mosque) (New in Istanbul means it was completed in 1665) at the Southern end of the Galata Bridge.

If you are coming from Taksin, get off here to go to Spice Market (also called the Egyptian…read moreBazaar). Easy and convenient. The Golden Horn is on one side and the beautiful Yeni Cami (Cami means Mosque in Turkish) This street car is easy to travel on. Very cheap (and sometimes faster than a taxi).