Turin’s main railway stations, Porta Nuova and Porta Susa, connect directly to the metro, while Via Roma links the central squares on foot. Your ticket choice depends on separately payable journeys, not simply how many buses or trams you board. Evening travel also needs attention: M1’s closing time changes with the day.
Walking, metro, buses and taxis
| Criterion | Walking | Metro M1 | Buses and trams | Licensed taxi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journey fit | Default for central sightseeing | Railway stations and Lingotto | Beyond the M1 corridor | Direct local journeys |
| Luggage | Carry it throughout | Lifts at key stations | Board with your bags | Direct ride with luggage |
| Evening use | No service calendar | Closing varies by day | Line-dependent; Night Buster hub | Round-the-clock requests |
| Cost basis | Free | GTT ticket | GTT ticket | Metered fare |
Via Roma leads from Porta Nuova towards Piazza San Carlo and Piazza Castello. The centre is mostly level, with a gentle descent towards the Valentino castle entrance. East of the Po, Borgo Po begins the climb towards the Turin hills.
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| Walk | Distance | Walking time |
|---|---|---|
| Porta Nuova → Piazza San Carlo | about 850 metres | about 12 minutes |
| Piazza San Carlo → Piazza Castello | about 650 metres | about 9 minutes |
| Piazza Castello → Mole Antonelliana | about 850 metres | about 11 minutes |
| Mole Antonelliana → Valentino castle entrance | about 2 km | about 27 minutes |
| Porta Nuova → Lingotto metro | about 3.6 km | about three quarters of an hour |
The central legs together cover about 4.2 km, taking just under an hour of walking before visits and breaks. The Mole Antonelliana’s cinema museum and Valentino’s riverside park add reasons to stop, so allow energy for those visits rather than treating the walks as the whole outing.
Metro M1: stations and service
| Line / journey | Direction | Serves | Journey time |
|---|---|---|---|
| M1: Porta Susa → Porta Nuova | Bengasi | Railway interchange | about 7 minutes |
| M1: Porta Nuova → Lingotto | Bengasi | Lingotto district | about 11 minutes |
M1 runs between Fermi and Bengasi. Porta Susa and Porta Nuova connect with mainline trains, so allow additional time for lifts, platforms and finding your train. Turin metro stations and journeys adds station-by-station coverage and onward walks.
- Name
- Porta Nuova metro station
- Location
- Turin, Metropolitan City of Turin Maps
- Essential fact
- The metro station beneath the Porta Nuova railway-station area in Turin.
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| Days | First | Late last |
|---|---|---|
| Monday–Thursday | 05:30 | — |
| Friday–Saturday | 05:30 | 01:00 |
| Sunday/public holiday | 07:00 | — |
| Service dates | Morning | Evening |
|---|---|---|
| 5–8, 12–15, 19–22, 26–29 October; 2–5, 9–12, 16–19, 23–26 November | — | 21:35, 21:45; 22:00–00:00 every 15 minutes |
| 4, 11, 18, 25 October; 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 November | 05:30, 05:56, 06:22, 06:49 | 21:35, 21:45; 22:00–00:00 every 15 minutes |
Board M1S at Porta Nuova, stop 40. Porta Susa, Porta Nuova and Lingotto have street-to-platform lifts, accessible gates, tactile guidance and assistance buttons. If Porta Nuova’s entrance lift fails, passengers with mobility disabilities can request a taxi to the previous or next station.
Buses and trams: city connections
- Operator
- GTT
- Payment
- Tickets and validation below
Buses and trams reach areas away from the M1 corridor. From Porta Nuova, bus 11 towards Venaria Reale takes you to Porta Palazzo Nord for the market. Match both the line number and destination display before boarding. Tram 4 towards Falchera offers another market connection.
| Line | Board | Direction | Alight / serves | Journey time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bus 11 | Porta Nuova area | Venaria Reale | Porta Palazzo Nord / market | about 11 minutes |
| Tram 4 | Porta Nuova V. | Falchera | Porta Palazzo / market | — |
| Service | Days | Window | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tram 4 | Daily | 04:45–01:00, terminus departures | Frequency-based 07:00–21:00; evenings about 25–30 minutes |
| Historic tram 7 | Sundays/public holidays | 09:30–19:30 | 60 minutes |
Historic tram 7 makes a central loop, with additional Christmas, Easter and bridge-holiday services when announced. Night Buster’s central boarding hub is Piazza Vittorio Veneto, the large square beside the Po. Turin tram lines and boarding expands on line-specific journeys and boarding details.
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Licensed taxis
- Request methods
- Taxi rank or telephone
- One dispatch option
- Taxi Torino: 011 5737
- Request service
- 24 hours daily, including holidays
A licensed taxi provides a direct local ride. Allow pickup time separately when calling: a round-the-clock request service does not mean a car arrives immediately.
Expect roughly €10–€20 for a short metered city ride, with traffic, distance and night-time conditions moving the price. Turin taxi ranks and fares gives rank locations and fuller fare and request choices.
Single tickets and short-stay passes
| Product | Price by medium | Validity from first validation | Journeys |
|---|---|---|---|
| City | Digital/bank card €1.90; chip-on-paper €2.00 | 100 minutes | Bus/tram transfers; one metro entry |
| Daily | Digital €3.70; chip-on-paper €4.50 | Until that day’s service ends | Unlimited |
| Special Tour, two-day | €9.50 | 48 hours | Unlimited |
| Special Tour, three-day | €12.50 | 72 hours | Unlimited |
A bank-card tap buys one City ticket at a time and charges the linked account directly. Bus and tram changes within City validity do not each require a new purchase, but a second metro entry does.
- Digital Daily beats two separately payable digital City tickets: €3.70 against €3.80.
- Chip-on-paper Daily beats three separately payable paper City tickets: €4.50 against €6.00; two cost €4.00.
- The two-day Special Tour ties five digital City purchases at €9.50 and saves from six (€11.40), while the three-day version saves from seven (€12.50 against €13.30).
- For two service days, digital Daily tickets total €7.40 against €9.50 for Special Tour; for three, €11.10 against €12.50. Paper Daily totals are €9.00 and €13.50 respectively.
For consecutive sightseeing days, compare Daily tickets before choosing Special Tour. The rolling pass can suit a stay spanning parts of additional service days and successive evenings. GTT urban/suburban coverage describes the local network, not an airport-transfer journey.
Buying, tapping and validating
Buy City and Daily at metro machines, authorised outlets or through TO Move. Special Tour is sold at metro machines, GTT ticket offices and authorised outlets, and Torino+Piemonte Card and Royal Pass holders also have a tourist-office purchase option in Piazza Castello.
You can tap a bank card on equipped buses and trams, not every vehicle. Look for the yellow Tap&Go sticker at the front door or yellow-and-blue livery. Every metro station has dedicated contactless gates.
Do
- Tap your bank card or wallet at the marked reader and wait for the confirmation beep; use the same card or device for transfers.
- Validate physical and Special Tour tickets immediately on boarding, at each vehicle change and at metro entry.
- Show your validated physical ticket or valid TO Move ticket during inspection; keep your phone switched on.
- For bank-card travel, provide the last four digits of the card used for payment during inspection.
Don’t
- Use one bank card or device to pay for several passengers.
- Treat an app purchase receipt as proof of a valid ticket.
- Give the physical card’s digits when you paid through a wallet: inspectors need the last four digits of the wallet’s virtual card number.
TO Move supports iOS and NFC-equipped Android phones running Android 8 or later, but Android NFC must be enabled for purchase as well as use. On iOS, scan the ticket’s QR code. On Android, select the ticket and tap with NFC enabled. Validate for every bus or tram boarding and before metro entry, waiting for the green light.
Android users can instead select the ticket and line and choose AUTOCONVALIDA (self-validation) on buses and trams. Activation takes 20 seconds. Disable digital-wallet contactless payment while validating an Android app ticket to prevent a separate Tap&Go purchase. The reader’s INFO TITOLO (ticket information) option can display your wallet’s virtual card digits.
Sources & fact-checking
Checks against the sources below cover: services, closures, and fares and charges.
- Gruppo Torinese Trasporti S.p.A. (GTT) — service
- Gruppo Torinese Trasporti (GTT) — closures
- LINEA M1 Sostitutivo – bus sostitutivo metropolitana, stazione Fermi (Collegno) – stazione Bengasi
- Arrivi in fermata — Fermata 40 – PORTA NUOVA
- Metropolitana
- Metropolitana: accessibilità
- Turismo Torino e Provincia — service
- Taxi Torino (Cooperativa Trasporto Pubblico Torino) — service
- Fares
- GTT — fares and charges
- FAQ BIP: City 100 and MultiCity
- Biglietti per il trasporto urbano e suburbano
- Gruppo Torinese Trasporti (GTT) — fares and charges
- Fares
- Points of sale
- GTT (Gruppo Torinese Trasporti); Turismo Torino e Provincia — service
- Tap&go (gtt contactless system) – WITH YOUR CREDIT CARD YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE A GTT TICKET IN YOUR POCKET
- Sistema di pagamento contactless: le FAQ
- Sistema di pagamento contactless: le FAQ
- Regolamento
- Documenti di viaggio / TO Move FAQs
- FAQ app TO Move per Android
- GTT fares and tickets (English)
- How to travel – GTT
- LINEA 4 – via delle Querce – strada del Drosso
- Linea 7 storica
- GTT, in collaboration with Agenzia per la Mobilità Piemontese and the City of Turin — service
