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Kumpula

Kumpula is a verdant neighbourhood in Helsinki, bordered by Eastern Pasila to the west, Vallila to the south, Käpylä and Koskela to the north and Toukola and Arabianranta to the east.

Kumpula
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The place

Kumpula is a verdant neighbourhood in Helsinki, bordered by Eastern Pasila to the west, Vallila to the south, Käpylä and Koskela to the north and Toukola and Arabianranta to the east. As of January 1, 2003, Kumpula had approximately 3,600 inhabitants.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kumpula

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.

  1. 01
    Helsinki Olympic Stadium

    The Helsinki Olympic Stadium, located in the Töölö district about 2.3 kilometres from the centre of the Finnish capital Helsinki, is the largest stadium in the country. The stadium is best known for being the centre of activities in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

    3.3 km · stadium in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Helsinki Halli

    Veikkaus Arena is a large multi-functional indoor arena located in Helsinki, Finland that is the home of Jokerit. It was opened in April 1997 and the arena is convertible for various events.

    2 km · multifunctional indoor arena located in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bolt Arena

    Töölö Football Stadium, officially Bolt Arena for sponsorship reasons, and known as Helsinki Football Stadium for UEFA events, is a football stadium in Töölö, Helsinki, Finland. It is the home stadium of Veikkausliiga club HJK Helsinki, temporarily also serving as home ground for IF Gnistan.

    3.3 km · football stadium in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Linnanmäki

    Linnanmäki is an amusement park in Helsinki, Finland. It was opened on 27 May 1950 and is owned by the non-profit Children's Day Foundation, which operates the park to raise funds for Finnish child welfare work.

    2.7 km · amusement park in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kallio Church

    Kallio Church is a Lutheran church in the Kallio district of Helsinki, Finland. It was designed by Lars Sonck and represents National Romanticism with Art Nouveau influences.

    2.9 km · church in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    The Stone Guest

    The Stone Guest is an opera in three acts by Alexander Dargomyzhsky. In what was considered a bold innovation at the time, Dargomyzhsky himself extracted the libretto directly from Alexander Pushkin's 1830 play of the same name, written in blank verse as part of Pushkin's collection Little Tragedies, using the text in its entirety and unchanged.

    3.6 km · Opera by Alexander Dargomyzhsky · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Korkeasaari Zoo

    Korkeasaari Zoo, also known as Helsinki Zoo, is the largest zoo in Finland, located in Helsinki's Korkeasaari island. The zoo was first opened in 1889.

    4 km · zoo in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Academy of Fine Arts of Helsinki

    The Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, Finland is part of the University of the Arts Helsinki and provides the highest university-level theoretical and practical training in the country in fine arts.

    1.6 km · one of the art academies of the University of the Arts Helsinki · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Helsinki Ice Hall

    The Helsinki Ice Hall, colloquially called Nordis, is an indoor arena located in the Taka-Töölö neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland. The arena has a seating capacity of 8,200.

    3.2 km · arena in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Sea Life Aquarium

    Sea Life is a chain of commercial sea life-themed aquarium attractions. As of April 2017 there are 53 Sea Life attractions around the world.

    2.7 km · chain of commercial sea life-themed aquarium attractions · 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 Kumpula

Airports
Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 12 km · Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 89 km · Turku (TKU), 152 km
Stations
Kulosaari metro station, 3.3 km · Hakaniemi metro station, 3.4 km · Sörnäinen metro station, 2.4 km · Kalasatama metro station, 2.5 km · Pasila railway station, 2.1 km
  • Turku → Kumpula
    151 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · €17–23
  • Tampere / Pirkkala → Kumpula
    21 km · quickest by road, 45 min · €2.5–3.5
  • Lappeenranta → Kumpula
    200 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · €22–31
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kumpula

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf you arrive by Viking Line's ferries from Stockholm or Tallinn, their terminal is in Katajanokka.

From Wikivoyage: Helsinki/Kruununhaka and Katajanokka, 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

    151 km
  2. 02169 km
  3. 03
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    198 km
  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

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

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    279 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kumpula

Kumpula is 5 km from Helsinki, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kulosaari42nd neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland3.2 km
  • Pasilacity district and the 17th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland2 km
  • Oulunkylä28th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland2.7 km
  • Kallio11th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland2.9 km
  • Vallila22nd neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland1.7 km
  • Sörnäinen10th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland2.9 km