Mexico City Bus Stations, Terminal Norte, Terminal Tapo

Mexico City

From Morelia it is a six or so hour trip to Mexico City Terminal Norte. From there I took an ADO first class bus to Oaxaca City, a seven hour trip.
Norte is an old station but a great hub for bus trips throughout Mexico including trips to Teotihuacan and the ruins of Tula.
Four bus terminals serve the country from Mexico City. You must start from certain terminals to reach a destination. That info is hard to find so I will list it here:

Mexico City’s Terminal Norte also called Terminal Central Norte, serves the country north to the US border and includes Matamoros, Nuevo Loredo, Juarez/ El Paso TX, Agua Prieta/Douglass, AZ, Nogales/Nogales, AZ, and as far west as Tijuana/San Diego. The States of Mexico served to the north and west include Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahiula, Nuevo Leon, Sinaloa, Durango, San Lois Potosi, Tamaulipas, Nayarit, Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Hidalgo, Aguascalientes, Michoacan, Colima, and Queretaro. Southern and eastern States served: Oaxaca, Chiapas, Veracruz, and Puebla.

Mexico City’s Tapo Terminal or officially called Terminal Oriente serves the southern and southeastern parts of Mexico including the States of Puebla, Oaxaca, Tlaxcala, Tabasco, Chiapas, Campeche, Veracruz, and Yucatan.

Mexico City’s Terminal Central Sur serves the central and southern States of Guerrero Puebla, Morelos/Cuernavaca, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Tabasco, and Chiapas.

Mexico City’s Terminal Centro Poniente serves the central and western states of Michoacan, Jalisco, Guerrero, Nayarit, Queretaro, the State of Mexico DF, and northwest to Sonora, and Sinaloa.

I Arrived in Oaxaca in the early morning just as the sun rose. From the ADO station I could walk to the Zocalo by then I needed to stretch my legs.