Discount tickets

Students, children, pensioners receiving a pension from Kela, people over 70 years and people with reduced mobility who live permanently in the HSL area can buy HSL tickets at a discounted rate.

Visually impaired people and veterans of Finnish wars are entitled to a free HSL card. Wheelchair users do not need a ticket on HSL public transport.

Discount groups

Students

If you are a full-time student, you can buy season tickets at a 40% discount using the HSL app or your HSL card. The discount does not apply to value, single and zone extension tickets.

You can activate the discount yourself in the HSL app or you can visit a service point to update the discount entitlement on your HSL card.

School journey ticket (Kela)

Are you an upper secondary student who has been granted a school transport subsidy by Kela? If you receive a decision on your application for a school transport subsidy from Kela, you can conveniently purchase your ticket using the HSL app or on your HSL card at a service point.

Children

Children under 7 do not need a ticket. Children aged 7 to 17 can buy tickets at a 50 percent discount.

You can download the free HSL app on your child's phone. The app allows users to buy child single tickets, day tickets, season tickets, and zone extension tickets to season tickets. Alternatively, you can also get an HSL card for your child, which can be topped up with child season tickets, day tickets, and value for buying single tickets and zone extension tickets. Child tickets are also available at sales and service points and ticket machines.

Pensioners (Kela)

If you receive national or guarantee pension or a cash rehabilitation benefit from Kela (the Social Insurance Institution of Finland), you can buy season, value and zone extension tickets at a 50 percent discount using your personal HSL card.

Visit a service point to have the discount entitlement added to your HSL card. Please bring with you an ID document, your HSL card, a Kela national pension card or a national pension, guarantee pension or cash rehabilitation benefit certificate from Kela. The certificate cannot be older than three months. A pension decision issued by Kela is not a sufficient document for the discount. The discount entitlement is granted for a maximum of three years at a time.

70+ passengers

If you are aged 70 or over, you can buy season tickets at a 40 percent discount. The discount applies to season tickets purchased with a personal HSL card or with the HSL app. The discount does not apply to single tickets.

Visit a service point to have the discount entitlement added to your HSL card. Remember to bring your HSL card with you. On the HSL app, you can activate the discount yourself. Read more

People with reduced mobility

You can get a 50 per cent discount on tickets if your mobility is impaired owing to a permanent injury or chronic disease and you meet certain conditions. You can get discount on season, value and zone extension tickets if you pay using your personal HSL card. Visit a service point to have the discount entitlement added to your HSL card.

Free HSL card

Visually impaired people

If you are blind or visually impaired with a degree of disability of at least 50%, you can get a free HSL card allowing you to travel in the HSL area free of charge.

You can get the free HSL card from a service point. To get the card, you need to present the following certificates at the service point:

an ID document and
an ophthalmologist’s certificate, showing a degree of disability at least 50%, or
A visually impaired person’s card issued by the Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired or Förbundet Finlands Svenska Synskadade rf, or
a certificate from HUS specifying the degree of disability.

You can get a free HSL card regardless of whether your home municipality is in the HSL area or outside the area.

If your degree of disability is at least 50%, you are entitled to a companion on HSL public transport. You will need a Companion Pass, which you can get from a service point, or an EU Disability Card with the symbol A. See the instructions for getting and HSL Companion Pass.

Wheelchair users

If you are a wheelchair user, you do not need a ticket or an HS card on HSL public transport.

If you also want to use Park & Ride facilities, you need an HSL card with a valid season or value ticket.

HSL issues free HSL cards to permanent wheelchair users, entitling you to travel in the HSL area free of charge. You can get the card from an HSL service by presenting a form signed by a physician. You can download the form here: