Karaköy

Found around the northern end of the Galata Bridge, the traditionally rough neighborhood of Karaköy is mainly visited for the purpose of transiting to other, more desirable areas. But with some nice places to eat and a boisterous local atmosphere, there’s good reason to spend some time here.

Karaköy welcomes visitors who are (a) arriving by ferry, (b) arriving by tram, (c) exiting the Tünel funicular, and (d) walking over the Galata Bridge. And so its normal state of being is commuter chaos, w...