{"id":213,"date":"2025-02-18T16:52:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T14:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ime2025\/?page_id=213"},"modified":"2025-03-20T14:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:35:44","slug":"travel-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ime2025\/venue\/travel-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tartu is situated in Southern Estonia and has a direct flight connection to Helsinki. But you can also travel to Tartu through Tallinn (approx 180 km from Tartu) and Riga (approx 250 km from Tartu). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/airport.ee\/en\/tartu-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tartu Airport<\/a>: Helsinki-Tartu flights are operated by <a title=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.finnair.com\/en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.finnair.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Finnair<\/a>. In July, there are connections once a day, every day except Saturday. The airport is located about 10 km from the city centre, and you can use a taxi to get to the city.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/airport.ee\/en\/tallinn-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lennart Meri Airport in Tallinn<\/a> offers connections to various <a href=\"https:\/\/airport.ee\/en\/destinations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">countries<\/a>.\u00a0 To travel from Tallinn to Tartu you can use a bus or train.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Buses from Tallinn Coach Station to Tartu depart regularly between 7 AM and 11:30 PM every hour or half hour. Most Tallinn-Tartu express coaches stop at the airport (the bus stop is just outside the arrivals door). Buying tickets beforehand is advisable as the buses tend to be full. For bus timetables and online ticket purchases, see <a title=\"timetable\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.tpilet.ee\/en\/timetable\/search?departureStop=lennujaam&amp;destinationStop=tartu\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tpilet.ee\/en\/timetable\/search?departureStop=lennujaam&amp;destinationStop=tartu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.tpilet.ee<\/a> . The bus trip from Tallinn to Tartu takes about 2.5 hours. Tartu Coach Station is located in the city centre.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Train traffic between Tallinn and Tartu is not so frequent. There are about 11 connections per day (<a href=\"https:\/\/elron.ee\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/elron.ee\/en<\/a>). The nearest train station to Tallinn Airport is \u2018\u00dclemiste\u2019. Train tickets can be bought online or on the train. The journey to Tartu lasts about 2.5 hours. The Train Station in Tartu is within 25 minutes walking distance from the city centre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a title=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.riga-airport.com\/en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.riga-airport.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Riga\u2019s International Airport<\/a> has connections to more than 80 destinations. Riga\u2019s airport is connected with Tartu through Lux Express buses (<a title=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/luxexpress.eu\/en\/routes\/riga-tartu\/\" href=\"https:\/\/luxexpress.eu\/en\/routes\/riga-tartu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">luxexpress.eu\/en<\/a>), the bus journey to Tartu takes about\u00a0 5 hours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For more travel information, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/visitestonia.com\/en\/travel-to-estonia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">visitestonia.com\/travel-to-estonia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/visitestonia.com\/en\/travel-around-estonia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">visitestonia.com\/travel-around-estonia<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See information on visas, weather, safety etc <a href=\"https:\/\/visitestonia.com\/en\/planning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/visitestonia.com\/en\/planning<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/visitestonia.com\/en\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"142\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/769\/visit_estonia_horizontal_positive.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-211\" style=\"width:275px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/769\/visit_estonia_horizontal_positive.png 500w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/769\/visit_estonia_horizontal_positive-300x85.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tartu is situated in Southern Estonia and has a direct flight connection to Helsinki. But you can also travel to Tartu through Tallinn (approx 180 km from Tartu) and Riga (approx 250 km from Tartu). For more travel information, please &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-213","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ime2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ime2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ime2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ime2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ime2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ime2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ime2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213\/revisions\/290"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ime2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ime2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}