Discount tickets

Students, children aged 7 to 17, pensioners receiving a pension from Kela, people over 70, and people with reduced mobility who live permanently in the HSL area can buy HSL tickets at a discounted rate.

Visually impaired people and veterans of Finnish wars are entitled to a free HSL card. Wheelchair users do not need a ticket on HSL public transport.

Discount groups

Students

If you are a full-time student, you can buy season tickets at a 40% discount using the HSL app or your HSL card. The discount does not apply to single and zone extension tickets.

You can activate the discount yourself in the HSL app or you can visit a service point to update the discount entitlement on your HSL card. When visiting a service point, remember to bring with you all the required documents.

School journey ticket (Kela)

Are you an upper secondary student who has been granted a school transport subsidy by Kela? If you receive a decision on your application for a school transport subsidy from Kela, you can conveniently purchase your ticket using the HSL app or on your HSL card at a service point.

Children

Children under 7 years of age do not need a ticket. Children aged between 7 and 17 years can buy tickets at a 50% discount in the HSL app or with an HSL card. Single and day tickets for children are also available at sales and service points and ticket machines.

You can download the HSL app from app stores free or charge. With the app, you can purchase child single and day tickets, season tickets, and zone extension tickets for season tickets. You can purchase an HSL card at service points (€5) and top up the card easily in the HSL Ticket Store or at sales and service points.

Pensioners (Kela)

If you receive national or guarantee pension or a cash rehabilitation benefit from Kela (the Social Insurance Institution of Finland), you can buy season tickets, single tickets and zone extension tickets at a 50 percent discount using your HSL card. Pensioner discount is not available in the HSL app.

Visit a service point to have the discount entitlement added to your HSL card. Please bring an ID document, your HSL card, a Kela national pension card or a national pension, a guarantee pension or a cash rehabilitation benefit certificate from Kela. The certificate cannot be older than three months. A pension decision issued by Kela is not a sufficient document for the discount. The discount entitlement is granted for a maximum of three years at a time.

70+ passengers

If you are aged 70 or over, you can buy season tickets at a 40 percent discount. The discount applies to season tickets purchased with a HSL card or with the HSL app. The discount does not apply to single tickets.

The discount entitlement is updated on your HSL card automatically when you turn 70, provided that you have authenticated strongly using the HSL app, via the HSL Ticket Store, or at the HSL service point or a municipal service point.

You cannot purchase a discounted season ticket in advance; the discount only applies once you have turned 70.
Read more about the discount for 70+ passengers.

People with reduced mobility

You can get a 50 percent discount on tickets if your mobility is impaired owing to a permanent injury or chronic disease and you meet certain conditions. You can get a discount on season tickets, single tickets, and zone extension tickets when you purchase them with your HSL card. The discount is not available in the HSL app. Visit a service point to have the discount entitlement added to your HSL card.

Visually impaired people

If you are blind or visually impaired with a degree of disability of at least 50%, you can get a free HSL card allowing you to travel in the HSL area free of charge.

You can get the free HSL card from a service point. To get the card, you need to present the following certificates at the service point:

an ID document and
an ophthalmologist’s certificate, showing a degree of disability at least 50%, or
A visually impaired person’s card issued by the Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired or Förbundet Finlands Svenska Synskadade rf, or
a certificate from HUS specifying the degree of disability.

You can get a free HSL card regardless of whether your home municipality is in the HSL area or outside the area.

If your degree of disability is at least 50%, you are entitled to a companion on HSL public transport. You will need a Companion Pass, which you can get from a service point, or an EU Disability Card with the symbol A. See the instructions for getting and HSL Companion Pass.

Wheelchair users

If you are a wheelchair user, you do not need a ticket or an HS card on HSL public transport.

If you also want to use Park & Ride facilities, you need an HSL card with a valid season or single ticket.

HSL issues free HSL cards to permanent wheelchair users, entitling you to travel in the HSL area free of charge. You can get the card from an HSL service by presenting a form signed by a physician. You can download the form here: