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Urban district in Stockholm, Sweden

Bromsten

Bromsten is a middle-class district of northwestern Stockholm and belongs to the Spånga-Tensta borough.

Bromsten
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The place

Bromsten is a middle-class district of northwestern Stockholm and belongs to the Spånga-Tensta borough. The ruins of an ancient hill fort located in the area are believed to be the source of the district's name.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bromsten

7 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. 01
    Kista 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.

    2.7 km · Tall building in Stockholm, Swedem · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Scandic 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.

    3.4 km · hotel building in Kista, northern Stockholm, Sweden · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kyrksjön

    Kyrksjön is a small lake in Bromma, a western suburb in Stockholm, Sweden. Named after its vicinity to the old Bromma Church, the lake was made part of the nature reserve Kyrksjölöten in 1997.

    3.8 km · lake in Stockholm Municipality, Sweden · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kista 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.

    2.5 km · shopping mall in Kista, Sweden · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lötsjön

    Lötsjön is a small lake in Sundbyberg, a municipality north of Stockholm, Sweden. The shallow lake features a rich variety of water birds and a fountain.

    3.2 km · lake in Sundbyberg Municipality, Sweden · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Spånga 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.

    900 m · church in Spånga, northwest Stockholm, Sweden · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Swedish Institute of Computer Science

    RISE SICS is a leading research institute for applied information and communication technology in Sweden.

    3 km · Swedish research institute · Wikipedia

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 Bromsten

Airports
Stockholm-Arlanda (ARN), 29 km · Stockholm Västerås (VST), 76 km · Stockholm Skavsta (NYO), 88 km
Stations
Stockholm Bromma Airport, 3.5 km · Akalla metro station, 3.5 km · Tensta metro station, 1.4 km · Hjulsta metro station, 2.2 km · Rissne metro station, 1.6 km
  • Stockholm / Västerås → Bromsten
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · kr85–115
  • Nyköping → Bromsten
    87 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · kr100–135
  • Linköping → Bromsten
    170 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · kr195–260
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Bromsten

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 Bromsten. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Stockholm County, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    138 km
  2. 02
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    188 km
  3. 03
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    224 km
  4. 04241 km
  5. 05
    Turku and the archipelago gatewayFI

    11 ways of moving, 13 sources

    270 km

If you know how people move in Bromsten – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bromsten

Bromsten is 11 km from Stockholm, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.