İstiklal Avenue

The experience

A 1.4-kilometre pedestrian boulevard running through Beyoğlu from Tünel Square up to Taksim Square, İstiklal Avenue is lined with 19th- and early 20th-century facades, arcades and passages. A historic red tram trundles down its centre while shops, bookstores, cafes and cinemas fill the buildings and side lanes. It is one of the busiest streets in the city, drawing large crowds day and night.

The pulse of modern Istanbul, best experienced simply by walking it end to end.

What a membership adds.

Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.