Ticket validity and interchanging

The tickets are valid from the moment of purchase. Alternatively, you can set the validity start time of the ticket within 24 hours of the purchase.

The ticket must be in the app before you board a bus, a tram or train, or before you enter the Suomenlinna ferry pier. When travelling on the metro, the ticket must be on your phone before you enter the payment area after passing the card readers.

You can buy single tickets for individual journeys with value loaded on your HSL card. Buy your ticket with your bank or credit card at a card reader when you board a bus, tram or train. When traveling on the Metro, buy your ticket before entering the payment area. At most Metro stations, the payment area begins at the HSL card readers at the top of the escalators to the platforms.

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Contactless payment is a fast and safe way to purchase tickets. Buy your ticket with your bank or credit card at a card reader when you board a bus, tram or train. When traveling on the Metro, buy your ticket before entering the payment area. At most Metro stations, the payment area begins at the HSL card readers at the top of the escalators to the platforms.

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You can buy single tickets from HSL ticket machines and in Helsinki also form parking ticket machines. At the ticket machines, you can pay using a debit or credit card with chip or with contactless payment.

The tickets are valid from the moment of purchase. The expiry time is printed on the ticket. The tickets are valid for 10 minutes longer than tickets purchased from other ticketing outlets.

You can buy single tickets in advance. Advance purchase tickets are valid from the time you show the disposable card to a card reader at the start of your first journey. You do not need to press any buttons, simply show the QR-code to the reader.

Use the sales points search to find the closest sales or service point.

U line buses are bus services whose routes extend to outside the HSL area. The buses have U signs on the front. HSL tickets are not sold on U line buses; on these buses you can buy bus operators’ tickets, which do not allow transfer to HSL public transport. Read more.

You can buy season tickets as a one-off purchase via the HSL app for 14, 30 or 360 days. Alternatively, you can also buy 30-day season tickets as an auto-renewing subscription. This way, the ticket is valid all the time and you don’t have to top it up every 30 days. The ticket is charged automatically to your payment card every 30 days.

In addition, auto-renewing saver subscriptions are available to adults who live permanently in the HSL area. The auto-renewing saver subscription is the most economical season ticket if you travel regularly. The subscription requires you to commit to it for a year.

You can set the season ticket validity to start immediately or within up to 60 days from the moment of purchase. The season ticket is valid until 4.30am on the day following the expiry date.

Season tickets bought on the HSL app are always personal.

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You can purchase season tickets for 14, 30 or 360 days.

You can set the ticket validity to start immediately or within 60 days from the moment of purchase. The season ticket is valid until 23.59 pm on the expiry date.

You can buy a new season ticket on your HSL card in advance before the current ticket expires. You can set the validity of the second ticket to start within up to 60 days of the expiry of the first season ticket. In other words, you can have two season tickets on your HSL card at the same time, with a maximum gap of 60 days between the tickets.

Season tickets bought on a HSL card are always personal.

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If you live permanently in the HSL area, you can buy season tickets at a lower price than residents in other municipalities. Residents of certain neighboring municipalities can also buy tickets at the same price as residents of the HSL area.

• The HSL municipalities include Helsinki, Espoo, Kauniainen, Kirkkonummi, Siuntio, Vantaa, Kerava, Tuusula and Sipoo.
• All the municipalities that have signed a ticketing agreement with HSL have been listed on our website.

Season tickets cost more for residents of other municipalities due to that their home municipalities do not subsidize the public transport journeys of their residents in the HSL area. 

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

The prices of season tickets for different customer groups, zones and residents of different municipalities.