Transportation in Estonia

Estonia's backbone is the smart, punctual bus network that reaches every town and most villages. Buy a Ühiskaart (green NFC card) at any R-kiosk, load it once, and you'll glide past the paper-ticket queue. In Tallinn the green-and-white trams are even faster across the centre, and the same card works on them too. Ride-hailing apps Bolt and Uber operate in the capital and Tartu, typically a fraction of a taxi hailed on the street, use them after midnight when buses thin out. From Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport, the cheapest move is tram line 4 right outside the terminal: it reaches the Old Town in 15, 20 minutes and runs until about midnight. After that, the official taxi rank is the only game in town, skip the unmarked cars inside the arrivals hall and insist on the meter or pre-book via Bolt to avoid the classic "airport surcharge" trick.