the line 1 has stops ranging from zona sul's ipanema to zona norte's uruguay, with popular points including but not limited to, general osorio in ipanema, siqueira campos in copacabana, botafogo, glória, cinelândia - the line 2 stop at the following points of interest, são cristóvão and maracanã.

metrô na superfície can be used to access the following points of interest, with urca and the jardim botânico from the botafogo station, leblon, são conrado, and barra shopping from the ipanema station.

the change between line 1 and line 2 can be done anywhere between the botafogo station and the central station - on week-ends and holidays, the change from line 1 to line 2 is only done at the estácio station.