Buses in Slovenia, from the capital to almost any village

Ljubljana bus station

This is the hub of the network. While the railway works go on, it occupies what used to be a car park east of the railway station, beside Masarykova Street, about 200 m from its usual site, and the Tourist Board says timetables didn’t change with the move. It has 46 platforms and a sales point with five ticket desks that take cards. On weekdays it opens from 5am to 10.30pm, on Saturdays from 5am to 10pm and on Sundays and holidays from 5.30am to 10.30pm. Next door, 30 Nomago Bikes are for hire, and there are racks if you’ve brought your own bike. An Urbanomat machine for city bus cards and a Slovenske železnice ticket machine are planned close by.

Buying bus tickets

You can pay as you board or, leaving from a large station, buy a ticket for a given day in advance. Ljubljana bus station also sells online, for Slovenia and abroad, and its website has a timetable search. For longer journeys and in high season, the Tourist Board recommends booking, especially at weekends. If you combine bus and train, there’s an integrated single ticket, with subsidised fares for students and seniors, loaded onto the Slovenske železnice IJPP card. How that card works is in trains in Slovenia. If you’re weighing up train, bus and car, the overview is in getting around Slovenia.

Day trips by bus from Ljubljana

The station advertises journey times for its most popular departures, 30 minutes to Škofja Loka, 45 minutes by shuttle to Velika planina, an hour to Bled and to the Postojna Cave park, an hour and twenty to Koper and two hours to Bohinj. In summer there are frequent buses to the coast, and in winter to Krvavec, Vogel and Kranjska Gora. The most popular trip is in Ljubljana to Bled, and the next hop in Bled to Bohinj.

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From the airport by bus

Arriva’s public bus links the airport with Ljubljana station, where it uses platform 28, and also with Bled and Kranj. You pay the driver in cash or by card, or use the machine at the stop. Arriving late, the alternative is taxis in Slovenia, with fares published at the rank. Details are in Ljubljana Airport.

Ljubljana’s city buses

In Ljubljana, LPP buses are paid with the Urbana card or a contactless bank card, never cash, and Koper doesn’t take cash either. In Maribor, Marprom runs 17 routes, and in other towns city buses are mostly Arriva or Nomago, where paying on board by card or cash is normal. Maribor’s Marprom card is sold at the bus station ticket office, at kiosks, online and, with some limits, by the driver.

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