Yellow city buses , operated by SVR (StrA¦tisvagnar ReykjavA­kur; tel 551 2700), depart from the two main terminals : LA¦kjartorg (ticket office Mon-Fri 9am-6pm), at the junction of LA¦kjargata and AusturstrA¦ti; and Hlemmur, at the eastern end of Laugavegur. Day services run from 7am to midnight Monday to Saturday, and from 10am to midnight on Sundays: frequencies are roughly every twenty minutes throughout the day and every thirty minutes in the evenings and at weekends; night buses run on Friday and Saturday nights only from midnight to roughly 4am. There's a flat, single-trip fare of 150kr that must be paid for with exact change; when boarding, simply throw the money into the box by the driver. Tickets are only issued if you're changing buses, in which case ask for a " skiftimiA°i ", valid for 45 minutes, as you pay. A strip of eight tickets, an " eitt kort ", can be bought onboard from drivers, from the terminals' ticket offices (LA¦kjartorg Mon-Fri 9am-6pm; Hlemmur Mon-Fri 8am-6pm, Sat & Sun noon-6pm) or, curiously, from any of the city's swimming pools, for 1000kr. Both ticket offices have free route maps and timetables , plus the GrA¦na KortiA° pass (3900kr), which gives one month's unlimited bus travel within the Greater ReykjavA­k area, which covers the surrounding satellite towns, including HafnarfjA¶rA°ur.

Two useful routes are #5, which runs from LA¦kjartorg via SuA°urgata to the ReykjavA­kurflugvA¶llur FlugfA©lag A?slands domestic air terminal; and #7, which goes to the HA?tel LoftleiA°ir for the A?slandsflug domestic terminal from LA¦kjartorg via Hringbraut. If you want to see the city cheaply, bus #5 is excellent - as well as running to the airport, it also operates in the opposite direction from LA¦kjartorg east via the central Hverfisgata, Hlemmur and the swimming pool and campsite in Laugardalur, before swinging west to the Kringlan shopping centre; change here for route #6 to take you back into town.