All areas › Kefalonia & Ithaki › Athens (Kifissos, Terminal A) → Ithaki (Vathy)
Kefalonia & Ithaki · KTEL Kefalonias
· via Sami-Patra ferry crossing
The bus from Athens to Ithaki leaves from Athens (Kifissos, Terminal A) and arrives at Ithaki (Vathy). The departure point is the bus station at Kifisou Ave 100 & Drakontos St, Athens (Kolonos/Peristeri boundary) — phone numbers, hours and directions are on the station page.
KTEL Kefalonias sells tickets online — bookings are currently open for travel dates up to 26 October 2026. That is how far ahead the booking system sells, not when buses stop running.
Every departure on this page in one view — ✓ runs on that weekday every week to the date confirmed below, ◕ on some of those weeks (tap or hover for the dates), — not on that weekday, blank means the operator has not published that far ahead. Tap a row for that departure’s stop-by-stop times.
Departures are confirmed day by day to Thu 15 Oct. That is as far ahead as the operator has published; later dates are not yet known, not ruled out.
| Departs | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:15 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
To each stop on the way, in travel order, where the operator prices it.
| Ithaki (Vathy) | around €21.70 |
↔ Scroll the table sideways to see every stop. — means the run does not call there; · means it calls but no time is published; +1 means the following morning; ? means the operator names the town but not this stop, so whether the run calls here is not something it tells us; and a blank cell means we hold nothing at all for that stop on that departure — not a denial, just no information.
| Departs | Athens (Kifissos, Terminal A)ΚΤΕΛ - Σταθμός Υπεραστικών Λεωφορείων Κηφισού | PatrasΠΑΤΡΑ | SamiΣΑΜΗ (ΙΘΑΚΗ) | Ithaki (Vathy)ΙΘΑΚΗ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:15 | 09:15 | · | · | · |
Athens (Kifissos, Terminal A) → Patras → Sami → Ithaki (Vathy)
The line joins the stops in order. It is not the road the bus takes — it is a straight chord between points, so treat it as sequence, not geometry. A hollow, dashed stop marker means the coordinate is a village centre rather than a surveyed bus bay; tap it to see where it came from.
Generated from this page’s own timetable data — every answer reads the same day-by-day calendar as the table above, so it can never say more than the page does.
One departure, at 09:15 (every day) (confirmed to Thu 15 Oct).
Every day (confirmed to Thu 15 Oct).
The operator has published departures to Thu 15 Oct. Beyond that this page cannot tell you what runs: Greek bus operators publish a few weeks ahead, so check back nearer the time.
The published fare is around €21.70 — see the fare table for the pairs it covers.
It leaves from Athens (Kifissos, Terminal A) (ΚΤΕΛ - Σταθμός Υπεραστικών Λεωφορείων Κηφισού). Note the exact terminal — cities with more than one bus station use them for different operators, and they are not interchangeable.