Mashhad Getting there & around

Getting around

Bus & tram

Bus

Pre-buy shiny IR300 tickets from ticket booths (6.30am-8.30pm) to use the excellent but complex network of city buses. Most buses stop running after 9pm. A few (eg bus 10) continue later, requiring two tickets at night. From stops near Falakeh Ab, southbound bus 84 runs to the bus terminal, buses 13, 62 and 94 wiggle towards Park Mellat. Useful bus 210 passes the Nader Shah mausoleum (first stop), Shohoda Sq (second stop) and Falakeh Ferdosi (one stop beyond the big Saba Hotel). For Kuhestan Park, take bus 10 from Shohoda Sq or Park Mellat.

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Local transport

Metro

The new 19-station metro starts from Ghadir Hwy in the southeast, runs beneath Feda’iyen-e Eslami, Bahar, Enqelab-e-Eslami and Ahmedabad Sts to Park Mellat, then overground down the middle of Vakilabad Blvd rendering that thundering highway almost uncrossable.

Taxi

Shuttle taxis on straight runs usually cost IR1000 (IR1500 for longer hops). However, any deviation requires payment dar baste: IR8000 for a short-ish hop, around IR20, 000 to cross a larger chunk of the city.

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