Naples metro and public transport

Naples metro line 1: from the central station to the Vomero

Line 1 is the metro line you’ll ride in Naples. From Garibaldi, under the central station, it runs through the old town and past the port to Museo, by the Archaeological Museum, then on to Vanvitelli on the Vomero hill. End to end, from Centro Direzionale, one stop beyond the central station, out to Piscinola, it has 20 stations and takes about 40 minutes.

At Garibaldi, line 1 meets line 2 and the Circumvesuviana to Pompeii and Sorrento; at Museo, a corridor leads to line 2’s Piazza Cavour station; and at Municipio you change for line 6. From Sunday to Thursday the last trains leave Centro Direzionale at 23:02 and Piscinola at 22:30. On Friday and Saturday nights, from mid-September to early July, they run until 1:32 from Centro Direzionale and 1:20 from Piscinola, although the corridor to line 2 at Museo shuts at 23:15 (times from the local press, October 2026).

Naples metro art stations: Toledo, Università, Municipio and the rest

Line 1 doubles as a gallery. Since 2001 the Stazioni dell’Arte programme, led by the art critic Achille Bonito Oliva, has put more than 200 works into the line’s stations, and the Ministry of Culture’s catalogue covers 11 of those stations. Six of them follow one another through the centre: Garibaldi, Università, Municipio, Toledo, Dante and Museo. Duomo, which opened in 2021 and isn’t on the list, sits between the first two, so one ride takes you through all six.

Toledo, opened in 2012 to a design by the architect Oscar Tusquets Blanca, is the showpiece: mosaics by William Kentridge, Robert Wilson’s crater of light and, that year, a verdict from the Daily Telegraph that it was the most impressive metro station in Europe.

Elsewhere on the line, Università has the colours and lettering of the designer Karim Rashid, and at Municipio, by the architects Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura, finds from the Roman port dug up during the works are on show. Dante, by the architect Gae Aulenti, has works by Kounellis, Kosuth and Pistoletto; Museo has casts of classical sculptures; and Garibaldi was designed by Dominique Perrault.

Naples metro tickets: the prices from 1 October 2026

Fares went up on 1 October 2026, but only on the integrated UnicoCampania tickets, the ones valid on every company’s buses and trains: the 90-minute ticket rose from €1.80 to €1.90 and the day ticket from €5.40 to €5.70. The tickets of ANM, which runs the metro, the buses and the funiculars, and of EAV, which runs the local railways, kept their prices, so older guides are only half out of date.

“Integrated” doesn’t mean unlimited. Within its 90 minutes the €1.90 ticket takes you on as many buses as you like, but only one ride on each line that runs on rails: line 1, line 6, each funicular, the Cumana, the Circumflegrea, line 2 and the Circumvesuviana count separately. So line 1 up to Vanvitelli and the funicular back down fit on one ticket, while line 1 there and line 1 back don’t.

If you stick to line 1, the funiculars and ANM buses, the €4.50 ANM and EAV day ticket covers it all and pays for itself on your third metro ride; the €5.70 integrated one adds line 2 and the other companies. There’s no ANM and EAV ticket for three days, only the integrated one at €10.80, which works out at €3.60 a day. Tobacconists sell tickets, and so do the UNICO Campania app and the PuntoLIS and Mooney counters in shops.

Contactless on the Naples metro: Tap & Go, with a second tap on the way out

You can skip tickets altogether and tap a bank card. Tap & Go, UnicoCampania’s contactless system, takes Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Maestro, V Pay and PagoBancomat cards, or a phone or watch, on line 1, the Centrale and Chiaia funiculars, every EAV station, ANM buses and the Alibus. Lines 2 and 6 aren’t on its list.

The system works out the bill afterwards and charges the cheapest of the single, the 90-minute ticket and the city day ticket for what you rode, with no fees. On your first tap a debit card may show a hold of €15, and a credit card €1.50; it’s a pre-authorisation, not a charge.

Naples funiculars: Centrale, Chiaia and Mergellina, with Montesanto closed

Three of the four funiculars are running: the Centrale, from Augusteo on Via Toledo up to Piazza Fuga on the Vomero; the Chiaia, from Parco Margherita to Cimarosa; and the Mergellina, between Mergellina and Via Manzoni. A ride costs €1.30, the ANM single, and on the Centrale and the Chiaia you can tap a card instead.

The fourth, the Montesanto funicular, has been closed since 15 May 2026 for its 20-year overhaul and should reopen around February 2027. Until then a replacement bus runs from Piazzetta Montesanto along Corso Vittorio Emanuele and Via Morghen to Vanvitelli. For Castel Sant’Elmo and the Certosa di San Martino, the Centrale to Piazza Fuga or line 1 to Vanvitelli does the climb for you.

Line 2, line 6 and the Cumana: the rest of the Naples network

Line 2 isn’t a metro in the strict sense: it’s Trenitalia’s urban railway, crossing the city from east to west through Garibaldi, Piazza Cavour by the Museo stop, and Mergellina. It has its own €1.60 single, and the integrated tickets work on it too. Since June 2026 it’s been cut between Campi Flegrei and Pozzuoli Solfatara because of carbon dioxide in a tunnel, a side effect of the ground movement around Pozzuoli, with buses replacing the trains and no date for reopening.

Line 6 is a short light metro, eight stops from Mostra to Municipio, handy for Chiaia–Monte di Dio, the stop for the Galleria Borbonica, and San Pasquale, by the aquarium. It keeps short hours, about 7:10 to 21:10 on weekdays and 7:10 to 14:50 at weekends, by the local press’s account. The Cumana and the Circumflegrea, EAV’s railways towards the Campi Flegrei, take the city tickets inside Naples, and the Circumvesuviana has a page of its own.

Validating tickets and fines on Naples public transport

Validate your ticket when you start the journey and keep it until the end. Inspectors fine you if you have no ticket, haven’t validated it, or hold one that has run out, doesn’t cover your route or belongs to another company, such as an ANM single on line 2. In the city the fine is 100 times the single fare, plus the fare. It falls to a third if you pay on the spot or within 60 days, and by another 30% if you pay within five days.

Two journeys aren’t on any city ticket. The metro won’t reach the airport before the first half of 2027, so the Alibus from Garibaldi is the link, and our page on getting from Naples airport to the city centre has the fares. The boats to Capri and Sorrento leave from Molo Beverello, and Caremar’s ferries from Calata Porta di Massa, about a kilometre along the port, on tickets of their own; Capri from Naples explains which is which.

Naples city cards and public transport

None of the city cards we sell includes public transport. The Campania Artecard, the Naples Museum Card and the city-centre passes pay for the sights, and the metro is yours to pay, by ticket or by tapping a card; Naples Pass and Naples city passes sets the cards side by side.