By plane

1 Sivas Nuri Demirağ Airport (VAS IATA), ☏ +90 346 224 8687. Two flights a day from Istanbul IST and SAW take 90 min, and there's a flight from Izmir most days. The airport is big enough for its limited flights and has car hire. (updated Mar 2026)

By train

High speed YHT trains run three times daily from Ankara to Sivas at 08:00, 13:00, and 18:10, with the same return times; two of them start from Istanbul. They take 2 hr 30 min via Kırıkkale and Yozgat, for online tickets see TCDD.

A regional train connects with the YHT, leaving Sivas around 17:00 to reach Malatya at 21:00. The westbound train leaves at 08:00.

Conventional trains from Ankara run daily and take 11 hours via Kayseri. These have couchettes and a sleeping car, some carry a buffet but don't rely on it, bring your own rations.

Van Gölü Express continues eastwards to Elazığ and Tatvan, which has buses and an occasional ferry to Van, for trains to Tabriz and Tehran in Iran.

Güney Kurtalan Express runs via Malatya to Diyarbakır and Kurtalan.

Doğu Express runs via Divriği, Erzincan and Erzurum to Kars. There's also a twice daily regional train between Erzincan, Divriği and Sivas.

The YHT trains have not speeded up travel to these eastern cities, with the exception of Malatya. Devising a connection in Sivas has to date proved beyond the wits of TCDD.

Additionally, the regional Hattı train runs daily from Samsun on the Black Sea coast, taking eight hours via Havza and Amasya. It departs both ways around 08:30.

2 Sivas railway station, Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu Blv (Two km southwest of town centre). This is the historic station, completed in 1934 and modernized in the early 2020s, and serving both conventional and high-speed trains. It remains an aspiration to extend the YHT line all the way to Kars, but there's no budget or firm plans to do so. (updated Apr 2024)

By bus

Direct buses run from Istanbul five or six times a day, taking 12 hours for a fare in 2022 of 600 TL, otherwise change in Ankara. Buses from Ankara run every two hours and take 7 hours, for a fare of 350 TL. They may continue east to Erzincan (3½ hours) and Erzurum (6 hours), or southeast to Elazığ, Tatvan and Van, or south to Gaziantep and Adana. The main operator on these routes is Flixbus; another is Metroturizm.

3 Sivas Intercity bus station (Sivas Şehirlerarası Otobüs Terminali) (2 km south of town centre just off Highway D200). Modern, clean and spacious. (updated Apr 2024)