Turin City Guide

Public transport

Operator. Gruppo Torinese Trasporti, GTT for short, runs eight tram lines, over 80 bus lines and the automated metro in Turin and the surrounding municipalities. Around 640,000 passengers travel each day, and the vehicles together cover more than 56 million kilometers a year. In addition there's the Servizio Ferroviario Metropolitano, the metropolitan area's S-Bahn-style rail service run by Trenitalia, which links the stations of Lingotto, Porta Susa, Rebaudengo Fossata and Corso Grosseto. The fare framework for the city, the surrounding area and the region is set by the Agenzia della mobilità piemontese, which is why GTT tickets and the integrated rail-and-bus tickets fit together. For visitors, this means in practice that a single city ticket covers metro, tram and bus across the entire urban and suburban network, while for rail you need the integrated ticket variants.

Network. One metro line plus a dense tram network.

Modes of transport. Metro · Tram · Bus · S-Bahn (Servizio Ferroviario Metropolitano) · Sassi-Superga rack railway

Operating hours. The metro operates on fixed hours at both endpoints, Fermi in Collegno and Bengasi in the south. Monday to Thursday, service begins at 5.30 am, with the last departure at both ends at 9.30 pm, after which the M1S replacement bus line takes over from 10.00 pm to 12.30 am. On Fridays and Saturdays the metro runs straight through from 5.30 am to 1.00 am, with no replacement bus needed. On Sundays and public holidays the metro only starts at 7.00 am and ends at 9.30 pm, with the M1S then running in the morning from 5.30 am to 7.00 am and in the evening from 10.00 pm to 12.30 am. The M1S only stops at the metro stations and covers the whole Fermi to Bengasi route. The metro is fully automated, running driverless on the VAL system, and takes around 25 minutes for the full route. In August, GTT thins out or fully suspends many bus lines to a holiday schedule, while trams continue to run as normal.

Night service. The night network is called Night Buster and is a joint project of GTT, the Agenzia della mobilità piemontese and the city. During the season from 26 June to 12 September 2026, 17 lines connect the center with 29 municipalities in the metropolitan area. Service runs every Friday, every Saturday and on nights before public holidays, each time between 11.00 pm and 5.00 am. The first departure from the outer terminals is at midnight, the last at 4.00 am, while outbound from Piazza Vittorio Veneto the first bus leaves at 1.00 am and the last at 5.00 am. Frequency depends on the line, W1, N8 and S4 run hourly, N4, S5 and S18 every two hours. All night lines converge in a star pattern on Piazza Vittorio Veneto, where you change buses. No special fare is needed, the same single tickets and passes as during the day are also valid at night.

Buying tickets. GTT lists around 750 authorized sales points in Turin and a further 600 in the surrounding area, mostly tobacconists, kiosks and bars, and also provides a dynamic downloadable map of sales points. Machines stand at every metro station, accepting cash and cards, and dispense not only the City Ticket for 2.00 Euro but also the day pass for 4.50 Euro and the multi-day tourist tickets. Anyone who doesn't want to search buys through the TO Move app, where the range runs from the City Ticket at 1.90 Euro to the seven-pack for 21.00 Euro. The third option is Tap and Go, tapping a contactless bank card directly at the metro turnstiles and on the readers on newer buses. Paper tickets appear as Chip on Paper and must be stamped at the on-board validators, while passes alternatively run on the BIP chip card.

App and payment. The official app is called TO Move, available for Android and iOS, and it carries the whole city range, from the City Ticket at 1.90 Euro to the MultiDaily 7 at 21.00 Euro. Digitally purchased tickets remain valid for 365 days until first activated, while on the BIP chip card it's 730 days for the City Ticket and 360 days for the day pass. Anyone who doesn't want to install anything uses Tap and Go. GTT accepts contactless bank cards from the Visa, Mastercard and American Express networks at the metro turnstiles and on board newer buses, with the fare then at 1.70 Euro, below the machine price. Cash still works at the machines in metro stations and at sales points.

Which ticket. The standard ticket is called City 100 and is valid for 100 minutes with unlimited transfers, including one metro trip. It costs 1.90 Euro digitally and 2.00 Euro as a Chip on Paper. Contactless by bank card it's only 1.70 Euro per trip. The MultiCity six-pack costs 11.80 Euro, i.e. 1.97 Euro per trip, and so pays off compared to paper, though not compared to the app. The Daily day pass costs 3.70 Euro digitally and 4.50 Euro on paper. Digitally it corresponds to 1.9 single trips, on paper to 2.25. So anyone taking two trips in a day pays roughly the same with the day pass, and from the third trip it comes out cheaper. For groups there's Daily x4 for 12.00 Euro digitally, valid for up to four people traveling together, which is 3.00 Euro per person. MultiDaily 7 bundles seven digital day passes for 21.00 Euro and may be spread across non-consecutive days. For a two- to three-day stay, the tourist tickets are the obvious choice, Tour 48 hours for 7.80 Euro digitally and 9.50 Euro on paper, Tour 72 hours for 10.30 Euro digitally and 12.50 Euro on paper. Two points worth calculating here. Two digital day passes together cost 7.40 Euro, cheaper than the 48-hour ticket, while three digital day passes cost 11.10 Euro, more than the 72-hour ticket. Anyone buying a Torino+Piemonte Card gets a transport ticket at the tourist office for 7.00 Euro over 48 hours or 9.00 Euro over 72 hours, with children aged 3 to 10 paying 3.00 Euro.

Fare zones. Within Turin there are no zones, the City Ticket covers the entire city and suburban network. For regional trains you need the integrated tickets, Integrato A for 3.90 Euro over 100 minutes in the first ring, Integrato B for 4.60 Euro over 120 minutes in the second.

Tip. The arcades along Via Roma keep you dry for eighteen kilometres.

Links

• GTT, Tickets for City and Suburban Transport with All Fares
• GTT, Sales Points and Payment Methods in English
• GTT, Metro with Operating Hours and Replacement Bus M1S
• GTT, Night Network Night Buster
• GTT, Maps and Route Planner
• GTT, Sassi-Superga Rack Railway
• Turismo Torino, Torino+Piemonte Card with Transport Add-on
• GTT – Priority Lines (PDF)
• Network map

Getting there

Main station

Location. Central terminus at the end of Via Roma. The second station is Porta Susa.

Long-distance trains. Porta Nuova is Turin's long-distance station, with 20 platform tracks, all step-free. The main Frecciarossa axis runs via Milan, Reggio Emilia, Bologna and Florence to Rome, Naples and Salerno, with some services continuing to Reggio Calabria or via Rimini and Ancona to Bari, Lecce and Taranto. A third line connects Turin via Milan, Brescia and Verona with Venice, Bolzano and Genoa. Italo also serves Rome and Salerno in parallel. Regional and Regionale Veloce trains run to Milano Centrale, Genoa, Ivrea, Susa and Bardonecchia. The station is connected to the Porta Nuova metro station, and the Sala Blu for travelers with reduced mobility is staffed daily from 7.45 am to 10.30 pm, accepting registrations up to an hour before departure. Besides ticket counters and machines, there's a left-luggage office, a pharmacy, a police post and WiFi. International trains to France don't use Porta Nuova but the city's second station.

Opening hours. The first trains, SFM suburban services, start rolling at 4.45 am. The first long-distance train leaves the station at 5.50 am toward Napoli Centrale. The last long-distance train is an Intercity Notte at 9.55 pm to Salerno, with the very last departure at 10.45 pm.

Airports

Local quirks

• Coffee here is called bicerin. Espresso, hot chocolate and cream layered in a glass. A Turin invention.
• The Torino+Piemonte Card doesn't include a transport ticket. Museums, castles and royal residences are free with the card, but public transport isn't. The tourist office therefore sells cardholders a separate transport ticket, 7.00 Euro for 48 hours and 9.00 Euro for 72 hours. This undercuts GTT's own Tour tickets, which cost 7.80 and 10.30 Euro digitally. It's only available at the tourist office counter, not from a machine.
• A rack tramway runs up to the Basilica of Superga. From Sassi station, a rack railway has climbed 3.100 meters and 425 meters of elevation since 1884, averaging a 13.5 percent gradient. It has its own fares, 4.00 Euro uphill and 6.00 Euro return on weekdays, 6.00 and 9.00 Euro on weekends. You can reach Sassi with tram 15 or buses 61 and 68. Bicycles cost an extra 4.00 Euro.

Good to know

Currency

EUR €

Emergency number

112

Plug type

C · F · L

Time zone

Europe/Rome

Driving

right

Speed limits. built-up areas 50 km/h, outside towns 90 km/h, 110 km/h on expressways, motorway 130 km/h

In rain, the motorway limit is 110 km/h instead of 130, and 90 instead of 110 on expressways. Drivers who have held their license for less than three years may drive at most 100 km/h on the motorway and 90 km/h on expressways. Within built-up areas, 50 km/h is the rule, though signposted city roads allow up to 70 km/h.

Tipping. Not expected. Bills often carry a coperto or servizio. If you were happy, round up.

Tolls. Most motorways are tolled. Take a ticket on entry, pay on exit. No vignette.

Access restrictions. Many historic centres are closed to non-residents. Cameras read the plate and the fine arrives home months later. Hours and boundaries differ from city to city.