Hietalahti
Worth seeing in and around Hietalahti
10 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.
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- 04Vaasa University of Applied Sciences
University of applied sciences in Vasa, Finland
800 m · Wikipedia - 05
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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.
Getting to Hietalahti
- Airports
- Vaasa (VAA), 8 km · Umeå (UME), 103 km · Tampere-Pirkkala (TMP), 212 km
- Stations
- Vaasa railway station, 1.4 km · Port of Vaasa, 3.1 km · Vaskiluoto yard, 2.7 km
- Tampere / Pirkkala → Hietalahti212 km · quickest by road, 4h 12m · €25–34
- Oulu / Oulunsalo → Hietalahti277 km · quickest by air, 5h 34m · €80–120
- Turku → Hietalahti295 km · quickest by road, 5h 32m · €33–46
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Hietalahti
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 Hietalahti. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inE8 and E12 both continue to Norway: via Tornio to Tromsø and by ferry to Umeå and on to Mo i Rana, respectively.
- Get inThe ferry Aurora Botnia, operated by Stena Line/Wasaline crosses daily between Vaasa and Umeå, Sweden (with the port in Holmsund at the mouth of the river).
- Get inVaasa also has its own transfer bus between the ferry terminal and the city centre, part of the local bus services, see below.
- Go nextOr why not take the ferry over to Umeå in Sweden (see #By boat above).
From Wikivoyage: Vaasa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Hietalahti
- Vaasacity in the region of Ostrobothnia in Finland1.2 km
- Vaskiluotourban area and 3rd major district in Vaasa, Finland2.4 km
- Palosaari4th major district of Vaasa, Finland2.8 km