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Kefalonia & Ithaki · KTEL Kefalonias
The bus from Ithaki to Sami leaves from Ithaki (Vathy) and arrives at Sami.
The journey takes about 35 min.
KTEL Kefalonias sells tickets online — bookings are currently open for travel dates up to 30 September 2026. That is how far ahead the booking system sells, not when buses stop running. For times and tickets you can ring KTEL Kefalonias on +30 2671 022281.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07:40 | ◕ | ◕ | ◕ | ◕ | ◕ | ◕ | ◕ |
The operator’s booking system returns €2.20 for this journey. That is the minimum bus fare set by law in Greece, and it cannot be the price of crossing to another island: Sami and Vathy are on different islands with no road between them, and the operator’s own fare certificate prices the boat separately at €14.50 to €15.40. So we are not showing a fare for this journey at all, rather than showing you a number that would be wrong. Buy the boat ticket from the ferry company, and ask the operator what the bus legs cost.
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↔ 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 | Ithaki (Vathy)ΙΘΑΚΗ | SamiΣΑΜΗ (ΙΘΑΚΗ) |
|---|---|---|
| 07:40ab | 07:40 | 08:15 |
Ithaki (Vathy) → Sami
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 07:40 (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.
35 minutes (Derived from the printed stop times).
The operator's booking system returns €2.20, but that is the minimum bus fare set by law and cannot cover the sea crossing between the two islands. The boat is ticketed separately, at €14.50 to €15.40 on the operator's own fare certificate, so we do not show a single price for this journey.
It leaves from Ithaki (Vathy) (ΙΘΑΚΗ). Note the exact terminal — cities with more than one bus station use them for different operators, and they are not interchangeable.