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Hässelby Villastad

Hässelby Villastad is a city district of Stockholm, in the north-western part of the Swedish capital Stockholm.

Hässelby Villastad
Hässelby Villastad · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Hässelby Villastad is a city district of Stockholm, in the north-western part of the Swedish capital Stockholm. It forms part of Västerort, Stockholm Municipality. Stretching west to Lake Mälaren, it is largely a high-class area with notable landmarks being the central commercial area Åkermyntan, and the big landfill Lövsta, which was used for all of Stockholm's refuse from the late 19th century to about 1950.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hässelby Villastad

4 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
    Grimsta IP

    Grimsta IP is a multi-use stadium in Vällingby, Sweden. It is currently used for football matches and is the home stadium of IF Brommapojkarna.

    2 km · stadium in Vällingby, Sweden · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hässelby Castle

    Hässelby Palace is a former manor located in Hässelby gård in the west part of Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. Since 2010 it has frequently been available for weddings, parties and conferences.

    2 km · mansion in Hässelby, northwestern Stockholm, Sweden · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Råcksta träsk

    Råcksta Träsk is a small lake in the western suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden. Notwithstanding its location in the vicinity of the Swedish capital and high levels of lead and copper, the lake is considered as an important breeding ground for frogs, of moderate interest to pleasure fishing, and of minor interest for birds.

    3.7 km · lake in Stockholm Municipality, Sweden · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kanaanbadet

    Grimsta Nature Reserve, is a nature reserve in Västerort, in the municipality of Stockholm, Sweden. Grimsta Nature Reserve is surrounded by Södra Ängby, Blackeberg, Grimsta, Hässelby and Lake Mälaren.

    3 km · public beach · 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 Hässelby Villastad

Airports
Stockholm-Arlanda (ARN), 32 km · Stockholm Västerås (VST), 71 km · Stockholm Skavsta (NYO), 83 km
Stations
Hässelby strand metro station, 1.2 km · Johannelund metro station, 2.1 km · Vällingby metro station, 2.9 km · Hässelby gård metro station, 1.4 km · Råcksta metro station, 3.9 km
  • Stockholm / Västerås → Hässelby Villastad
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · kr85–115
  • Nyköping → Hässelby Villastad
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · kr105–140
  • Linköping → Hässelby Villastad
    166 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · kr200–265
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hässelby Villastad

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundAdelsö is connected to the road network by a free-of-charge ferry, which is used by bus 312.

From Wikivoyage: Ekerö, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-09.

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

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    143 km
  2. 02
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    229 km
  4. 04246 km
  5. 05
    Turku and the archipelago gatewayFI

    11 ways of moving, 13 sources

    275 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hässelby Villastad

Hässelby Villastad is 15 km from Stockholm, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.