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Helsinki Subdivision in Uusimaa, Finland

Kaarela

Kaarela is a subdistrict in the Western major district of Helsinki, Finland.

Kaarela
Kaarela · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kaarela is a subdistrict in the Western major district of Helsinki, Finland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kaarela

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.

  1. 01
    Central Park

    Central Park is a park in Helsinki, Finland. It has an area of 10 square kilometres.

    3.6 km · park in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Myyrmäen jalkapallostadion

    Myyrmäen jalkapallostadion, formerly ISS Stadion and Pohjola Stadion, is a football stadium in the Myyrmäki district of Vantaa, Finland. It is the homeground of PK-35 Vantaa, its women's representative team plays in the top-tier Kansallinen Liiga.

    2.8 km · football stadium in Vantaa, Finland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Energia Areena

    Energia Areena is a multifunctional indoor arena in the Myyrmäki Sports Park, located in the Myyrmäki district of Vantaa, Finland. The arena gets its name from its largest sponsor, the energy company Vantaan Energia.

    2.7 km · multifunction indoor arena in Vantaa, Finland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Myyrmäki church

    Myyrmäki Church, is a Lutheran church in the Myyrmäki neighborhood in the city of Vantaa. It is located near Louhela commuter train station.

    2.9 km · church building in Vantaa, Finland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Myyrmanni

    Myyrmanni is a shopping center in the Myyrmäki suburb of Vantaa, Finland. The center was built in the early 1990s and has over 90 stores and 1,100 parking spaces.

    2 km · shopping center in Vantaa, Finland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ristikko

    Ristikko is a shopping center in Helsinki, Finland, built on the premises of Hartwall's former bottle warehouse in the Konala district. It is located near the intersection of busy road connections, Vihdintie and Ring I, and buses run to the center of Helsinki, Hakaniemi, Western Vantaa and Northern Espoo, among other places.

    2.2 km · shopping centre in Helsinki, Finland · 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 Kaarela

Airports
Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 9 km · Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 93 km · Tampere-Pirkkala (TMP), 147 km
Stations
Huopalahti railway station, 3.6 km · Malminkartano railway station, 1.1 km · Pohjois-Haaga railway station, 2.2 km · Kannelmäki railway station, 1.2 km · Mäkkylä railway station, 3.9 km
  • Tampere / Pirkkala → Kaarela
    147 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · €18–25
  • Turku → Kaarela
    145 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · €17–23
  • Lappeenranta → Kaarela
    201 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · €23–32
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kaarela

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA few European roads lead to Helsinki: E12 leads from Norway's coast through Vaasa (following the Blue Highway at that leg); E18 comes in from Stockholm in the west and from Saint Petersburg in the east; E67 (Via Baltica) ends in Tallinn, with several car ferries to Helsinki; E75 comes in from northern Norway and continues south-west by a non-existent ferry connection.
  • Go nextThe Archipelago Sea and Åland to the west are known for their beauty and are accessible also by car and bicycle thanks to the ferries.
  • Go nextThere is also a ferry directly from Hanko to Sweden.
  • Go nextThere are about 10 daily ferry departures from Helsinki to Tallinn (in the summer even more).

From Wikivoyage: Uusimaa, 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
    Turku and the archipelago gatewayFI

    11 ways of moving, 13 sources

    146 km
  2. 02164 km
  3. 03
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    193 km
  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    226 km
  5. 05
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    274 km

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Around it

Next door to Kaarela

Kaarela is 9 km from Helsinki, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Haagacity district and the 29th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland3.4 km
  • Pitäjänmäkicity district and the 46th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland3.4 km
  • Pakila34th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland3.7 km
  • Länsi-Pakilaneighborhood of Helsinki in Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland1.8 km
  • Konala32nd neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland2.4 km
  • Pirkkolaneighborhood of Helsinki in Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland2.5 km