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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 67 travel and transportation
Best travel and transportation in Istanbul
The 10 most notable travel and transportation in Istanbul, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Çarşı Metro Istasyonu
Ümraniye
18 m from Ümraniye Çarşı Transfer Center, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.445, percentile 100 of 67
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2
Bağcılar Meydan
4 m from Bağcılar Meydan, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.425, percentile 98.48 of 67
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3
Üçyüzlü
21 m from Üçyüzlü, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.417, percentile 96.97 of 67
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4
Kadıköy Metro İstasyonu
21 m from Kadıköy, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.314, percentile 95.45 of 67
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5
Karadağlar Turizm
1823. Sk No: 109
319 m from Göztepe Mahallesi, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.285, percentile 93.94 of 67
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6
Yıldırım Turizm
İbrahim Karaoğlanoğlu Cd. No:75 D:3
246 m from Seyrantepe, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.265, percentile 92.42 of 67
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7
Yöntaş Taşımacılık
Çobançeşme mah. sanayi cad. selvi sk. no:4/a yenibosna
318 m from Çobançeşme, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.237, percentile 90.91 of 67
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8
Şahin Turizm Personel Servis Taşımacılığı
Birlik Cd. No:45 D:1
556 m from Bağcılar Meydan, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.202, percentile 89.39 of 67
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Vezneciler
Şehzadebaşı Cd. No:22
2 m from Vezneciler—İstanbul Üniversitesi, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.173, percentile 87.88 of 67
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10
Ümraniye Metro İstasyonu-Santral
Alemdağ Caddesi. Ümraniye
14 m from Ümraniye, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.166, percentile 86.36 of 67
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).