Suomen Turistiauto

Suomen Turistiauto (Finnish Tourist Buses, STA) started as an independent bus company but currently the City of Helsinki owns 99,9% of the company. In addition to city traffic, STA offers charter services with a wide selection of tourist coaches. Ikarus E95 and Carrus Star 302 -models are often seen on sight seeing tours of the city.

STA own around 230 buses. The buses are numbered 1-350, so there must be rather large gaps. Specialities in the STA fleet include Ikarus 415 buses that are completely manufactured in Hungary. An additional plus is that STA seems to operate actual city center routes solely with low floored buses. On longer regional routes normal floored Carrus Fifty -models are used.

STA currently operates an even selection of regional and internal Helsinki routes and will soon start operating most Espoo routes.

Bus models known to be operated by STA: