Turin Hop-on Hop-off Bus: Tickets, Routes, Stops and Prices

How the Turin hop-on hop-off bus works: lines, stops and timetable

In Turin the service is run by City Sightseeing with the familiar red double-deckers and recorded commentary through earphones. The terminus is Piazza Castello, in front of Palazzo Madama, and both lines leave from there. Line A loops through the centre past the Mole Antonelliana, Piazza Vittorio, the Gran Madre across the Po, the Egyptian Museum, Porta Nuova station and Parco del Valentino; line B follows the river south to Lingotto, Eataly, the National Automobile Museum and the former Olympic Village. In some seasons a third line runs out to the Reggia di Venaria: the official map changes, so check which lines are active on the dates you book.

The ticket is valid for 24 or 48 hours from first validation and lets you get off and back on as often as you like. Frequency runs between 30 and 60 minutes depending on line and season, with the tightest timetable from April to October and at weekends; in winter the service can shrink to a handful of loops a day or to a single line. A full loop of line A takes about an hour without getting off, line B a little longer because of the stretch along Corso Unità d'Italia.

Hop-on hop-off Turin tickets: 24 hours, 48 hours and Mole combos

There are three formats. The 24-hour ticket (€22–28*) is the one we see chosen most: it covers one full day and on GetYourGuide carries a 4.2 rating across more than 1,000 reviews, with the critical ones concentrating on waiting times and winter frequency rather than the route. The 48-hour ticket (€28–35*) costs a few euros more and makes sense if you arrive in the afternoon and leave two days later: line A on the first evening, line B the next morning. The third format is the combo with the National Cinema Museum inside the Mole (€35–48*), sold on GetYourGuide as "Cinema Museum and Bus Tour" and as a Tiqets bundle: worth it only if you would have bought both anyway, and check whether the panoramic lift is included, because it is often a supplement.

• One day, centre plus Lingotto: 24 hours.
• Two nights, slow pace, children: 48 hours.
• Mole already booked for a fixed time: the combo, after checking the lift.
• Three or more museums: the Torino+Piemonte Card with the bus as a discounted extra.

Booking the Turin sightseeing bus: vouchers, languages, cancellation, kids

You buy online and receive a voucher on your phone: show it to the assistant in Piazza Castello or to the driver when you first board, and the 24 or 48 hours start from that moment. Not every version asks for a fixed date, but read the listing: some tickets want the day of use, others stay open for months. On GetYourGuide most tickets come with free cancellation up to 24 hours before, on Tiqets it depends on the product; for a ticket this weather-dependent that clause is worth more than a two-euro price difference.

On board the commentary runs in several languages through disposable earphones; Italian and English are always available, the others should be confirmed at purchase.

What you see from the stops: from the Mole to Lingotto along the Po

Turin suits an open-top bus better than most Italian cities because its highlights sit along wide, straight boulevards rather than in a maze of lanes. From the top deck the Mole Antonelliana, all 167.5 metres of it, appears between the rooftops at a different angle on every turn; the stretch across the Po to the Gran Madre opens up the hill and the Monte dei Cappuccini, and on clear days the Alps behind them. The stop for the Egyptian Museum, the oldest museum of its kind in the world, is in the heart of the centre, and many riders get off here for two or three hours before picking the bus up again.

Line B tells the other Turin, the industrial one. Lingotto is the former FIAT factory with the test track on its roof, now turned into a rooftop garden; next door is the very first Eataly, opened in a former vermouth plant, and a little further on the National Automobile Museum, among the best of its kind in Europe.

Bus, metro or on foot: when the hop-on hop-off pass really pays

Let us be honest: for the square between Piazza Castello, Piazza San Carlo, the Egyptian Museum and the Mole you do not need the bus. You cross the centre in twenty minutes under the arcades, sheltered even in rain, and a guided walking tour gives far more context than a recorded track. Metro line 1 links Porta Susa, Porta Nuova and Lingotto in minutes on a GTT ticket of around €2*, and tram 15 reaches the Gran Madre. If your plan is entirely central, put the bus money into one more museum entry.

The pass becomes rational in three scenarios. First, a single day with Lingotto or the car museum on the list, because metro plus local bus plus return is cheaper but involves three changes. Second, children or anyone who finds walking hard, where getting on and off at will is the difference between seeing four things and two. Third, the first day in the city, sitting upstairs for the whole of line A to get your bearings before deciding where to walk back to. In our one-day itinerary the bus only appears in the afternoon, precisely for the run south.

Where we book hop-on hop-off tickets and how we choose

For the sightseeing bus we look at GetYourGuide first, which lists the City Sightseeing ticket with verified reviews and free cancellation on most versions; then Tiqets, which carries the same ticket from €28* and, more importantly, the combos with the Cinema Museum at the Mole and the Torino+Piemonte Card; Headout is the fallback when the other two are sold out. The price in our boxes is the one observed on partner catalogues and checked regularly: at checkout it can differ by season, currency or promotion, and the checkout figure always prevails.