--- title: "Alnes – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Alnes, Norway: Alnes is a small village in Giske Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. Nearby: Alnes Lighthouse, Godøy Chapel. Every way there…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/alnes" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/alnes.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Alnes_p%C3%A5_Giske.jpg" --- Village in Giske Municipality, Norway # Alnes Alnes is a small village in Giske Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. ![Alnes](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Alnes_p%C3%A5_Giske.jpg) Alnes · Wikimedia Commons The place Alnes is a small village in Giske Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located on the (isolated) north side of the island of Godøya, about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) northwest of the village of Leitebakk. The rest of the island's population is located on the southern half of the island, separated from Alnes by a large mountain. Alnes is accessible through a tunnel through the mountainous center part of the island. It is possible to reach from Ålesund by city bus. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alnes), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Alnes 2 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. 1. Alnes Lighthouse Alnes Lighthouse was established in 1852 to guide fishing boats safely to the harbor of the small fishing community of Alnes on the north side of the island of Godøya in Giske Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The lighthouse sits about 4 kilometres northwest of Leitebakk. 500 m · lighthouse in Norway · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alnes_Lighthouse) 2. Godøy Chapel Godøy Chapel is a chapel of the Church of Norway in Giske Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located on the small island of Godøy. 2.8 km · chapel in Giske, Norway · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God%C3%B8y_Chapel) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Alnes **Airports:** Ålesund (AES), 11 km · Bergen, Flesland (BGO), 247 km · Trondheim, Værnes (TRD), 272 km\ - Bergen → Alnes 624 km · quickest by air, 7h 52m · kr1,220–2,020 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bergen-to-alnes) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bergen&to=Alnes) - Trondheim → Alnes 53 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · kr90–120 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/trondheim-to-alnes) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Trondheim&to=Alnes) - Oslo (Gardermoen) → Alnes Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/oslo-gardermoen-to-alnes) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Oslo+%28Gardermoen%29&to=Alnes) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Alnes) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Alnes 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 Alnes. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in This route requires taking quite a few ferries in either direction which makes it take as long to Trondheim as the ferry-less E136/E6 combo but more expensive. From [Wikivoyage: Ålesund](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/%C3%85lesund), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Yell, Unst and the North Isles](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/yell) GB 9 ways of moving, 13 sources 430 km 2. [Kirkwall and the Orkney Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kirkwall) GB 9 ways of moving, 35 sources 622 km 3. [Faroe Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/faroe-islands) FO 8 ways of moving, 23 sources 664 km 4. [Lofoten](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lofoten) NO 7 ways of moving, 12 sources 752 km 5. [Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/aland) FI 12 ways of moving, 21 sources 790 km If you know how people move in Alnes – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Calnes&title=Alnes&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Falnes), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Alnes - [Leitebakk](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/leitebakk) settlement in Giske Municipality, Norway 2.8 km [The place page for Alnes](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/alnes) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Norway](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-NO) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/alnes, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt