Akalla
Akalla is a district in Rinkeby-Kista borough, Stockholm, Sweden.
Akalla is a district in Rinkeby-Kista borough, Stockholm, Sweden. Akalla has a population of roughly 9,100 as of 2018, in which immigrants, mostly from Finland, make up 60.4% of the population.
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Worth seeing in and around Akalla
6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Kista Science Tower
Kista Science Tower is a 32-story, 124 m skyscraper in Kista, Stockholm, Sweden. With its roof-top antenna, its height is 156 m, making it one of the tallest buildings in the country, just between Turning Torso and Scandic Victoria Tower.
2.3 km · Tall building in Stockholm, Swedem · Wikipedia - 02Scandic Victoria Tower
The Scandic Victoria Tower is a skyscraper hotel in the Kista district of Stockholm, Sweden. It is also known as the Victoria Tower, however the Scandic name is used to distinguish it from the Victoria Tower that forms the southwest end of the Palace of Westminster.
2.6 km · hotel building in Kista, northern Stockholm, Sweden · Wikipedia - 03Kista Galleria
Kista Galleria is a shopping mall located in the Kista Science City in Stockholm, Sweden. It has 185 stores, including a multiplex, bowling alley, karting track and restaurants.
2.2 km · shopping mall in Kista, Sweden · Wikipedia - 04Spånga Church
Spånga Church is a church in the Spånga-Tensta borough in Stockholm, Sweden. It is part of Spånga-Kista Parish in the Diocese of Stockholm.
2.5 km · church in Spånga, northwest Stockholm, Sweden · Wikipedia - 05Edsvik Konsthall
Edsviks konsthall was a Swedish art gallery situated at Edsberg, an 18th-century estate at Edsviken in the north of Stockholm, Sweden. The gallery focused on Swedish and international contemporary art.
3.9 km · Swedish art gallery which focuses on Swedish and international contemporary art · Wikipedia - 06Uppland Runic Inscription Fv1953;263
Uppland Runic Inscription Fv1953;263 or U Fv1953;263 is the Rundata catalog listing for a Viking Age memorial runestone that was discovered at Helenelund, which is in Sollentuna, Stockholm County, Sweden, which was in the historic province of Uppland.
2.7 km · Rundata catalog listing for a Viking Age memorial runestone · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Hagaparken
A Royal Palace park in Solna with a rich history, open to the public, and great for picnics.
- 02The Haga Park Museum
An indoor museum which displays the history of the Royal Park, since the 18th century.
- 03Butterfly House
A tropical greenhouse open around the year.
- 04Gustav III:s
Open to the public during summer.
- 05Norra Begravningsplatsen
Among famous Swedes buried here are Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, actress Ingrid Bergman, humanitarian Folke Bernadotte, and fin-de-siècle writer August Strindberg.
- 06Ulriksdal Palace
An orangery with a collection of 18th and 19th century sculptures.
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Things to do
- 01Strawberry Arena
- 02Ulriksdals Golfklubb
Several beaches for water sport, especially at Hässelby.
- 03Kistamässan
A convention center opened in 2008, hosting a broad set of events, many of them about information technology.
- 04Solvalla
- 05Bodyflight Stockholm
- 06B, Bromma Sweden. Indoor
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Where to eat
The suburban centres have low-end diners. 1 Tony's Pizzeria, Norrbyvägen 16 (T Bromma). An Italian restaurant serving Italian-style pizzas and BBQ kebab.
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Getting to Akalla
- Airports
- Stockholm-Arlanda (ARN), 26 km · Stockholm Västerås (VST), 75 km · Stockholm Skavsta (NYO), 90 km
- Stations
- Akalla metro station, 100 m · Tensta metro station, 2.4 km · Hjulsta metro station, 2.5 km · Rinkeby metro station, 3 km · Husby metro station, 1.1 km
- Stockholm / Västerås → Akalla75 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · kr85–115
- Nyköping → Akalla90 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · kr105–140
- Linköping → Akalla173 km · quickest by road, 3h 23m · kr200–265
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Akalla
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Akalla. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inTapanis Buss has a route between Tornio, Finland and Stockholm serving coastal region along road E4 FlixBus Baltic sea ferries with passenger and vehicular (car and truck) capacities connect Stockholm with Helsinki, Turku, Riga and Tallinn.
- Get inA ferry from Gdańsk arrives in Nynäshamn, a port in the south of Södertörn.
- Get inE18, which leads by ferry from Finland to Norrtälje and goes north of the lake Mälaren through Västerås, Örebro and Karlstad to the Norwegian border and then on to Oslo E20, which goes south from Stockholm via Södertälje, and then, south of lake Mälaren, it goes west to Gothenburg.
- Get aroundSome archipelago islands are connected to the mainland by car ferries.
- Get aroundThere are also regular ferries between the islands which are operated by independent companies - some are under the same SL fare scheme, and others are not, requiring separate tickets.
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Next door to Akalla
Akalla is 13 km from Stockholm, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.