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|name_native = Αθήνα, Athína|state = Attiki|map = <map lat='38.04' lng='23.7475' zoom='10' view='0' />|pop = 2,805,0003.827.624 in 2011 (not including migrants)|plate motorways = YA - YH[[A1 (Greece)|motorways = 1A1]], 6[[A6 (Greece)|A6]]

Take the metro line 1, till the last station "Kifissia". From there, [http://osm.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_foot&route== North to [[Thessaloniki]38.0738,23.8083;38.0728,23.8123 cross the park]. You'll find a busy bus stop, direction north, take the bus [[Republic of Macedonia|Macedonia]] (E75) http://www.oasa.gr/xpmap.php?id=p509&lang=='''Option 1.'''en 509]

Take the metro from the center north to Nea Ionia station. ('''Suggestion''': When you get Get off from the metro, take the bus no. 724 (it starts from hereafter 30 min, you can't miss the direction) and get off at bus stop "GymnasioNeo Terma" that is 10th stop and just walk 50m. Way better than to walk few kilometers as described in next lines). From , at the exit end of the metro stationAgios Stefanos, when it makes a U-turn right, go down a few dozen meters, and go under continues back to the tunnelcity. This is the start of Odos Elevtheriou Venizelou[http://osm. Walk up this street to Odos Tatoiou and turn right. Walk straight for a few kilometers until the road rises to become a bridge over a large motorwayorg/directions?engine=graphhopper_foot&route=38. Note that you will cross ringroad/highway E-94 (A6) first1550, but continue straight until you get to the bridge going over highway E-75 (A1)23. Don't go up the bridge, but rather take the road that stays below the bridge and runs to the right side8573;38. This is signposted ''Lamia''1549, one of the first major cities north of Athens23. The best time 8558 Walk 300m] to get a lift is the early morning when local people are driving to work in more distant communities. Eventually someone will stop who can take you far enough north that you can escape parallel of the Athens metropolitan area and get long distance rideshigh-way. For Macedonia, turn left about a kilometer after the enormous It's quite busy with drivers avoiding toll booth plaza before Thessaloniki.station

You can walk 3 km to that Afidnai Toll Station or wait for a short ride, who'''Option 2s gonna drop you there.'''Also 4 km after toll station is Kapandriti Motorway Rest Area with BP fuel station

Take You can also catch a ride at the point where drivers who avoided the green "metro" to tolls are getting back into the final station Kifisiahigh way. Find Half of the bus 509 (not exactly at the stationrides go to Halkida, it is on a nearby parallel street. Ask around.) in the direction ΚΥΝΟΥΡΙΑΣ and get off at the stop 6η ΚΡΥΟΝΕΡΙΟΥ. Go straight and there you will see a turn rightother half go further North. This is taking you to the national road, going parallel with the highway (Decline rides that don't go to the highway yet) and walk on this road. In like 4 kilometers there is in your direction, they will only put you in a toll station (the best worse spot!) on the highway. Walkable distance, but there are spots where you can stop and hitch.

Anywhere you hitch from, try to get For a lift going at least place to the town/village called Oinofyta. 10km sleep before that [[Thessaloniki]], there is a huge [http://hitchwiki.org/maps/?zoom=15&lat=40.33&lon=22.58 24 hour rest area/gas station ] in Korinos and it's called Autogrill where [https://olympusplaza.gr Olympus plaza]. It includes a restaurant with free wifi and showers. Nobody will disturb you can get long lifts if you are lucky. In Greece it is also no problem to hitch sleep on the actual highway as long as you are far enough from couches and workers of the city suburbsrestaurant often give food away.

For a place === North-West to sleep before ThessalonikiThiva ===New spot, i cannot confirm the hitch-hikeability of this route:Take the suburban till Magoula. From there is a great 24 hour rest area, take the bus [https:/gas station called Olympus plaza(olympusplaza/www.gr)google. It is 10km east of Katerini and has free wificom/maps/dir/38.070, showers and comfortable couches you can sleep on23. Workers were really nice when Sma asked if she could sleep there717/38.12, they said "of course!"23.417/ 861] till the last stop. There's only 35km left to Thiva.

=== Southwest West to [[Patra]]s and the or [[PeloponnesosTripoli]] (E94) {{E|94}} ======= Option 1 : Megara SEA ====* Bus A16 from Aigaleo Metro Station (end of blue line) * Bus B16 from Metxourgio Metro Station (Red Line)* Bus 865 200m from Eleonas Metro Station Take the suburban train direction Kiato, and get down in Megara. The controller always gets on the train in Nea Peramos, in the 1st or 5th (blue linelast)wagon. You can either :

Get off at 1st Aerodromiou Stop or Levkes Stopa) stay in the 3rd wagon, and when you see the control approaching, go the opposite direction. There If the train is full, the control might be slow and you might arrive in Megara before they reach you. If they catch you will without a ticket, you wont pay any fine, but just the 3 euro ticket.From the train platform of Megara, you can see the connection with National Road 8(N8)restaurant / petrol station. Cross the field, and find this [https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?route=37.992%2C23.361%3B37.995%2C23.365 underground pass]

b) go down in Nea Peramos and try to find a [https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?route==== Option 2 ===='''Harrys Truck-Stop'''38.0128%2C23.4148%3B37.9954%2C23.3646 5km ride to Megara].

In the suburb of Aspropyrgos, in west Athens, there is a truck-stop well known and used by truck-drivers. There are not many trucks from western and northern Europe which means that hitchers will have very good chances of getting cars stopping there, but you can get a lift long ride. The intersection to Patra or Tripoli is just 40km away, be sure to ask for the correct direction before accepting the port-city of Patras and possibly even beyond into Europeride.

The truck stop is at the 17th km of ==== Option 2: National Road Athens-Korinthos 8 ====* from Ag.Marina Metro Station (Athinon-Korinthouend of blue line)buses [https://www.google.com/maps/dir/37.997,23.668/38.057,23. Ιt seems this is where Halivas Cement Company is52/ A16 or 865].It's a huge area and * from Pireas Metro Station (end of green line), bus drivers and people know it[https://www.google.com/maps/dir/37.949,23.642/38.036,23.539/ 871].

==== Option 3 ====Take Suburban Train Piraeus-Kiato from Piraeus Get off at 1st Aerodromiou Stop or Athens aka Larissis Train Station-be careful when Levkes Stop. There you ask because there is Larissa city far from Athens. The train station is next to will see the red line metro station connection with the same nameNational Road 8 (N8).

==== Option 3 :There are almost no controllers on that trainEleusina Toll Station ====With the same buses of option 2, you get off at Platia Elefsinas and [http://osm. I have taken it org/directions?engine=graphhopper_foot&route=38.0431,23.5420;38.0420,23.4962 walk 5-6 times last two months (April-May 2010) usually on Fridays and Sundays and have seen no controllers. My girlfriend neither in different occasions. Regular ticket is EUR 63km] to Eleusina Toll Station.

Get off === South to [[Sounio]] ===Take the bus [http://www.oasa.gr/xpmap.php?id=p122&lang=en 122] from metro Elliniko to Saronida, go down at the last stop "KIATO". Walk straight from , walk along the right side coast to get out of the railway line to the motorway Saronida, and from there you see. There turn right. After 20m there is a left turn can hitch-hike to Egio, Patras.You can easily hitchhike thereSounio.

(please be aware == Public Transport ==The metro has automatic doors. Black riding is quite common. We wait that Parking (Rest Area Kiato) on the way to Patras dosn't work anymore)somebody opens it with their ticket and we follow them.

==== Option 4 ====Eleusina Toll StationUsually the controls are at the metro intersections (Syntagma, Omonia, Attiki, Monastiraki), where they hide behind the turns of the connecting corridors. If they catch you without a ticket, show them your passport, but don't pay the fine. Till now, nobody saw their fines redirected to their countries.

To go along == Ferry from/to Athens ==It is quite common to buy a ticket on the coastport (of Piraeus - south of Athens) for a ferry to the first stop, take tram 5 from Sintagma or Sigrou-Fix and get but getting off at later. They never check you when you leave the last station: Asklipio Voulasferry. A little ahead there is a good spot to start hitch-hiking fromSeldomly they check the people that are waiting downstairs for leaving the ferry.