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Kilo

Kilo is a unit prefix in the metric system of measurement, denoting multiplication by one thousand (103).

Kilo
Kilo · Berthold Werner
The place

Kilo is a unit prefix in the metric system of measurement, denoting multiplication by one thousand (103). The International System of Units reserves the lowercase symbol k.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kilo

8 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
    Gallen-Kallela Museum

    The Gallen-Kallela Museum, located in Tarvaspää, Espoo, Finland, and built between 1911 and 1913 was a home and studio for Finnish painter Akseli Gallen-Kallela. The atelier building has been a museum since 1961.

    3.4 km · art museum in Espoo, Finland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sello

    Sello is a shopping mall in the Leppävaara, Espoo, Finland. The mall contains more than 170 shops and services including a concert hall and a library.

    1.6 km · shopping mall in Espoo, Finland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Helsinki Finland Temple

    The Helsinki Finland Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Espoo, Finland. Announced on April 2, 2000, it was the last temple dedicated by church president Gordon B. Hinckley and, at the time, served the church’s largest temple district, spanning at least a dozen time zones.

    800 m · LDS temple in Finland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Villa Elfvik

    The Villa Elfvik nature house is an environmental education centre in Espoo, Finland, directed at all residents of Espoo. The nature house offers information about nature and the environment in all forms.

    2.9 km · house in Finland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Panorama Tower

    The Panorama Tower is a high-rise building in Leppävaara, Espoo, Finland located at Hevosenkenkä 3. It is the third highest building in Espoo.

    1.8 km · building in Leppävaara, Espoo, Finland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Leppävaaran Torni

    The Leppävaara tower is a high-rise building in Leppävaara, Espoo, Finland, located at Valurinkuja 2. The building is located right next to the Leppävaara railway station and the Sello shopping centre.

    1.8 km · high-rise building in Espoo, Finland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Galleria (Espoo shopping centre)

    Galleria is a shopping centre in the district of Leppävaara in Espoo, Finland. It is located north of the Turuntie highway in northern Leppävaara.

    1.8 km · Shopping center in Espoo, Finland · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Grani (shopping centre)

    Grani is a shopping center located in the town center of Kauniainen in Uusimaa, Finland. It has expanded in three phases, the first being commissioned in 2001 and the third in 2018.

    3 km · shopping mall in Kauniainen, 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.

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Getting to Kilo

Airports
Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 15 km · Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 89 km · Turku (TKU), 142 km
Stations
Leppävaara railway station, 1.9 km · Mäkkylä railway station, 3.4 km · Kauniainen railway station, 2.9 km · Kera railway station, 1.5 km · Kilo railway station, 0 m
  • Turku → Kilo
    141 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · €16–22
  • Tampere / Pirkkala → Kilo
    148 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · €19–26
  • Lappeenranta → Kilo
    208 km · quickest by road, 3h 45m · €23–32
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kilo

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe same is true if you're arriving from Tallinn on Tallink's or Eckerö Line's ferries, from St.
  • Get inPetersburg by ferry or on a massive cruise ship that can't dock in central Helsinki.

From Wikivoyage: Helsinki/Kamppi and Southwest, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Turku and the archipelago gatewayFI

    11 ways of moving, 13 sources

    141 km
  2. 02159 km
  3. 03
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    188 km
  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

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

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    268 km

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Around it

Next door to Kilo

Kilo is 7 km from Espoo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.