Kurkimäki
Kurkimäki (Finnish), Tranbacka (Swedish) is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.

Kurkimäki (Finnish), Tranbacka (Swedish) is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland. It is part of the Mellunkylä area.
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Worth seeing in and around Kurkimäki
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.
- 01Itis
Itis is a shopping center located in Itäkeskus in East Helsinki. It is located next to the Itäväylä motorway and the Itäkeskus metro station.
2.6 km · shopping mall in East Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 02Viikki Church
Viikki Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the Viikki district of Helsinki, Finland. Completed in 2005, it is the newest of the city's church buildings.
1.8 km · church in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 03Maamerkki
Maamerkki is a high-rise building on Kauppakartanonkatu street near the Lyypekinaukio square in Itäkeskus in the Vartiokylä district of Helsinki, Finland. The building is 82 metres high and has 19 floors and has a viewing terrace at the top.
2.9 km · high-rise building in Itäkeskus, Helsinki · Wikipedia - 04Malmi cemetery
The Malmi Cemetery is a large cemetery located at the corner between Ring I and the Lahti Highway in the Malmi district in Helsinki, Finland. It is the largest cemetery in Finland in terms of both area and number of burials.
2.2 km · cemetery in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 05Viikki Campus
The Viikki Campus is a campus area of the University of Helsinki in Finland, focusing on biological sciences. It comprises following units: Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry Faculty of Biosciences Faculty of Pharmacy Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Institute of Biotechnology Viikki Science Library Besides these units of the University of Helsinki, the campus area also hosts the Helsinki Science Park and the Finnish Food Safety Authority.
2.9 km · campus area of the University of Helsinki · Wikipedia - 06Playground Tuhkimo
Playground Tuhkimo is a public, free of charge park at Roihuvuori district in Helsinki, Finland.
4 km · park in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 07Easton Helsinki
Easton Helsinki is a shopping centre in Itäkeskus, Helsinki, Finland. It is connected to the Itis shopping centre through the Hansasilta bridge.
2.8 km · shopping mall in eastern Helsinki · Wikipedia - 08Tallinnanaukio
Tallinnanaukio is a square in the Itäkeskus quarter in Helsinki, Finland. There is direct access from the Tallinnanaukio to the Itis shopping center, and there is also one of the eastern entrances to the Itäkeskus metro station, from where the Helsinki Metro leaves the metro to the city's downtown center.
2.6 km · square in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 09Puhos
Puotinharju, Botbyhöjden is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland. At the end of 2022, 35 percent of the residents of the Puotinharju postal code area were of foreign background.
2.3 km · shopping mall in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 10Liikuntamylly
Liikuntamylly is an all-activity hall over a hectare in size in the district of Myllypuro in East Helsinki, Finland. The building is located right next to the Myllypuro metro station.
1.1 km · sports hall in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kurkimäki
- Airports
- Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 11 km · Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 92 km · Tampere-Pirkkala (TMP), 153 km
- Stations
- Itäkeskus metro station, 2.7 km · Siilitie metro station, 3.4 km · Mellunmäki metro station, 2.4 km · Puotila metro station, 2.5 km · Myllypuro metro station, 1.1 km
- Tampere / Pirkkala → Kurkimäki153 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · €19–26
- Turku → Kurkimäki156 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · €17–24
- Lappeenranta → Kurkimäki193 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · €22–30
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No local-transport research exists yet for Kurkimäki
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 Kurkimäki. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe ferries from Germany nowadays dock at Vuosaari harbor, which is located in eastern Helsinki.
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Next door to Kurkimäki
Kurkimäki is 10 km from Helsinki, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Malmi38th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland3.7 km
- Itäkeskusquarter in the neighbourhood of Vartiokylä in Helsinki, Finland2.9 km
- Herttoniemi43rd neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland3.8 km
- Viikki36th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland2.8 km
- Vartiokyläcity district and the 45th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland2.6 km
- Mellunkylä47th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland1.8 km