Free software is coming to the city! ÖzgürKon will take place on April 25-26 at Kadıköy Municipality Barış Manço Cultural Center. The weather is expected to be partly cloudy on both days of the event. Learn about the venue facilities and ways to get there.
Kadıköy Municipality Barış Manço Cultural Center
Address: Caferağa Mahallesi Nailbey Sokak No:29/A Kadıköy/Istanbul
Unfortunately, there is no ramp for wheelchairs or strollers.
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Getting around the city
Bus
You can reach Kadıköy with many bus lines operated by IETT . For all lines, get off at the final stop in Rıhtım and reach Barış Manço Cultural Center with about a 15-minute walk, or get off at Altıyol and reach the venue with about a 5-minute walk.
Metro
Get off at Kadıköy, the final stop of the M4 Kadıköy-Sabiha Gökçen metro, exit from exit 3, and reach Barış Manço Cultural Center with about a 7-minute walk.
Ferry
You can comfortably reach Kadıköy by taking Şehir Hatları ferries or motorboats to Kadıköy from Eminönü, Karaköy, Beşiktaş, Kabataş, the Golden Horn line, and the Princes’ Islands. From the piers in Kadıköy, Barış Manço Cultural Center is about a 10-minute walk away.
Marmaray
The Söğütlüçeşme and Ayrılıkçeşme stations on the Marmaray line are at similar distances from Barış Manço Cultural Center. After getting off at Söğütlüçeşme, walk toward Boğa, or if you get off at Ayrılıkçeşme, walk toward Moda through the inner streets of Yeldeğirmeni to reach Barış Manço Cultural Center.
Airport transfer
From Istanbul Airport (IST)
To get from Istanbul Airport to Kadıköy, you can use Havaist shuttle services available from the public transport level. You can also take the M11 (U1) Airport-Gayrettepe metro and, after about a 30-minute ride to Gayrettepe, continue to Söğütlüçeşme by metrobus. If you want some sea air, you can walk downhill a little from Gayrettepe and take the Kadıköy ferry from Beşiktaş pier.
From Sabiha Gökçen Airport (SAW)
To get from Sabiha Gökçen Airport to Kadıköy, you can take the M4 Kadıköy-Sabiha Gökçen metro and, after about a 50-minute ride, get off at Kadıköy, the final stop.
Arriving from outside the city
By sea
From Yalova
After taking a car ferry from Yalova and getting off in Pendik, you can reach Kadıköy quickly by using Marmaray.
From Bursa
After going to Mudanya, you can take a sea bus, get off directly at Kadıköy pier, and reach Barış Manço Cultural Center with about a 10-minute walk.
From Bandırma
By using the Bandırma-Kadıköy sea buses, you can get off directly at Kadıköy pier and reach Barış Manço Cultural Center with about a 10-minute walk.
By road
Harem bus terminal
Most bus companies provide shuttles from Harem bus terminal to Kadıköy. After getting off your bus in Harem, the shuttle will take you to Kadıköy pier within 15 minutes, and from there Barış Manço Cultural Center is about a 10-minute walk away.
Dudullu platforms
Most bus companies provide shuttles from Dudullu to Kadıköy. After getting off your bus in Dudullu, the shuttle will take you to Kadıköy pier within 30 minutes, and from there Barış Manço Cultural Center is about a 10-minute walk away.
Other bus terminals
Although we do not recommend other bus terminals because of the distance, you can still reach Kadıköy by taking M1 from Esenler bus terminal to Yenikapı and then using Marmaray, or by taking T5 from Alibeyköy Cep Bus Terminal to Eminönü and then boarding the Kadıköy ferry.
By rail
TCDD
You can reach Barış Manço Cultural Center with about a 10-minute walk by getting off at Söğütlüçeşme station on TCDD’s High Speed Train and conventional lines. From many cities such as Ankara, Eskişehir, Adapazarı, Bilecik, Konya, Karaman, Kırıkkale, Yozgat, and Sivas, you can reach Kadıköy in a short time this way.
TCDD international lines
Take the Sofia Express from Sofia to Halkalı, get off at the final stop in Halkalı, transfer to Marmaray, and reach Söğütlüçeşme with a 30-minute ride. You can reach Kadıköy this way from cities such as Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, and Burgas.
Parking
Barış Manço Cultural Center, where the event will be held, is located right in the middle of Kadıköy, one of the rare places in the city where all public transportation options connect. For that reason, we strongly do not recommend coming by car.
However, if you still want to come by car, you can use the Caferağa multi-story parking lot next to BMKM and other nearby private parking lots.
We would like to remind you that the Rıhtım İSPARK lot has been closed and the existing parking lots are definitely not cheap.