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From the Asian side, you can take the Kadıköy-Kartal metro to its last stop, the Kartal interchange. The exit of the metro stop is right on the D100 highway, and there's a good place for cars on the direction of Gebze to stop. This spot is much closer to Gebze than Bostancı, so you'll have better chances of getting drivers who are going in that direction.
Once you are near Gebze, you are more likely to be dropped off on the highway, out of the city centre. Ask your driver to drop you off as near to Eskihisar as possible. At some part of the road, you’ll notice signs for Eskihisar, complete with a diagram for the ferry. Once on that corner of the road, you are about 30 minutes away from the ferry quay on foot. There is a bus stop not far from the highway off Istasyon Cd/Eskihisar Feribot Yolu that will take you to the ferry for TL 2.30, Eskihisar is clearly written at the top of the bus sign.
This option is currently not working, the suburbian train is out of use COMPLEATLY now.((Another cheap way (involving payment) to reach Eskihisar from Istanbul may be to take a suburban train (''banliyö treni'') from Haydarpaşa Station near Kadıköy, the main district of Istanbul on Asian side (To get to Kadıköy from European side, you can take ferries from Eminönü near Sultanahmet; Karaköy near Beyoğlu/Galata; or Beşiktaş near Taksim. They all cost 1.40 TL/person). Suburban train costs around 1.50 TL/pessenger. Ride it until Gebze, the last station on its route. However Gebze ''the station'' is not exactly located in Gebze ''the city centre'' (about 3-4 km inbetween), so don’t confuse each other. Then, once you are in Gebze station, you are again about 30 min of walk away from Eskihisar jetty. Ask around for the way there.))
== Ferry ==
From here there somehow happens to be two different ferry routes, one to Topçular and the second one a few kilometeres from Topçular (for the cost of 2.00TL/person)
 
The ferry has a flat fare for cars, so it doesn’t really matter whether there is only one person (i.e. driver) in it, or it is occupied by ten people when it comes to payment. Thus, the easiest method to avoid paying for the ferry is to ask drivers whether you can cross the toll booth in their car. You can do this in the very front of the booth, just before the drivers pay the fee (there usually is a helpful car queue in front of the booths). Security guards there seem to be relaxed about this, not concerned if you dodge the payment in this way (However, they may make a real fuss if you simply try to walk through the booth without buying a token). Once on the other side of the booth, the car will likely to be taken into a seperate queue if the ferry has started to fill up. There you can wish your driver ''bon voyage'' (Turkish: ''iyi yolculuklar'', pronounced ''ee-yee yohl-joo-look-laar'') and walk yourself to the ferry itself: Once you are clear off the booth, no one asks for a receipt of a payment, neither when boarding the ferry nor when getting off.
A way to avoid ferries altogether is to hitch east from [[Istanbul]] all the way to [[Izmit]] first, along the northern shore of the Gulf, then once in Izmit, hitch back to west to [[Yalova]] along the southern shore. This will add at least an hour more to your trip when compared with Eskihisar route.
Note===Personal Experience=== [[User: Amines]] arrived at night and was allowed to get to the ferry by foot without paying and the same on the way back, but it wasn't night anymore. Hitchhiker [[Theo]] recieved a used ticket from a driver AFTER the driver has passed the control and managed to pass through the passenger entrance with this ticket. Even though the ticket was in the name of Mustafa Kemel and [[Theo]] is quite un-Mustafaish the guard just laughed and let him through (''git git'').
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