By plane

1 Kayseri Erkilet Airport (ASR IATA), Mustafa Kemal Paşa Blv, ☏ +90 352 337 5244. Flights from Istanbul take 80 min: Turkish Airlines fly every two hours from IST and twice a day from SAW, and Pegasus have four flights daily from SAW. Sun Express fly several days a week from Adana, Antalya, Gaziantep and Izmir. Flights from Europe usually involve a change in Istanbul. The airport is 5 km north of city centre and is the main landing point for tours of Cappadocia, with direct transfers - a board outside Arrivals lists official rates for various destinations. Buses run downtown every 30 min, routes 101 and 271. (updated Nov 2022)

By train

Trains run three times a day from Ankara to Kayseri, taking 7 hours. There are couchettes but no sleeping car; some trains have a buffet but never rely on it. They continue east to Sivas (another 4 hours) then diverge:

via Malatya and Elazığ to Tatvan (Vangölü Ekspresi), with dolmus connections to Van, for the train to Tabriz and Tehran.

via Malatya to Diyarbakir and Kurtalan (Guney Kurtalan Ekspresi);

via Erzurum to Kars (Doğu Ekspresi)

The single fare from Ankara in 2022 is 87 TL. For timetables and online tickets see the Turkish railways website.

From Adana Erciyes Ekspresi runs once a day, taking six hours to Kayseri.

2 Kayseri Garı the railway station is central on Kocasinan Blvd.

A high speed railway from Ankara is under construction, supposedly for completion by 2026, though this date seems optimistic. The new line and railway station are 10 km north of the city, further out than the airport. The Ankara-Sivas high-speed line opened in 2023 but takes a new route far from Kayseri.

By bus

Buses from Ankara run hourly round the clock and take 5 hours, for a single fare in 2022 of 120 TL. Many of them start in Istanbul, an 11 hour journey for 400 TL. They may continue to Gaziantep (6 hours), Adana (5 hours) or Malatya (5½ hours).

Buses also run once or twice a day from Izmir and Antalya via Konya, Nevşehir, Göreme and Avanos in Cappadocia.

Bus operators on these routes include Metro Turizm, Flixbus and Kent Turizm.

3 Kayseri bus terminal (Kayseri Şehir Terminali), Osman Kavuncu Blv. It is 6 km northwest of town centre, a modern building but cold in winter. There's toilets (coins needed), an Internet café, left-luggage storage, cafes, hairdresser, ATMs and some overpriced shops - there's better value and choice in the shopping centre 200 m west. To get downtown use the tram from the adjacent stop. Fares (8.50 TL as of May 2023) can be paid by a debit or credit card. Taxis wait on the east side of the terminal. (updated Nov 2022)

Whenever the high speed railway arrives, the bus terminal will relocate north near to the new railway station.

By road

From Ankara follow O-21 motorway onto D300, reckon 3 hours. D300 continues from Kayseri to Malatya and the far east of Turkey. From Adana follow O-21 onto D805.