Lasnamäe
Lasnamäe is the most populous administrative district of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.
Lasnamäe is the most populous administrative district of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The district's population is about 119,000, the majority of which is Russian-speaking as a result of Soviet settlement policies. Local housing is mostly represented by 5–16 stories high panel blocks of flats, built in the 1970–1990s.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Lasnamäe
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.
- 01Lake Ülemiste
Lake Ülemiste is the largest of the lakes surrounding Tallinn, Estonia. Ülemiste is the main part of the Tallinn water supply system, which supplies the city with most of its drinking water.
5.4 km · lake in Estonia · Wikipedia - 02Toompea Castle
Toompea castle is a medieval castle on Toompea hill in the central part of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. In modern times, it houses the Parliament of Estonia.
5.1 km · castle in Tallinn, Estonia · Wikipedia - 03A. Le Coq Arena
The Lilleküla Stadium, known as A. Le Coq Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Tallinn, Estonia. It is the home ground of football clubs Flora and Levadia, and the Estonia national football team.
5.7 km · football stadium in Tallinn, Estonia · Wikipedia - 04Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral of Tallinn is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral in central Tallinn, Estonia. It was built in 1894–1900, when the country was part of the former Russian Empire.
5 km · Orthodox church in Tallinn, Estonia · Wikipedia - 05St. Nicholas' Church
St. Nicholas Church is a medieval church building in Tallinn, Estonia.
4.8 km · church in Tallinn, Estonia · Wikipedia - 06
- 07Toompea
Toompea is a hill in the central part of Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia. The hill has an area of 7 hectares and is about 20–30 metres higher than the surrounding areas.
4.9 km · hill in Tallinn, Estonia · Wikipedia - 08Tallinn Old Town
Tallinn Old Town is the oldest part of Tallinn, Estonia. Old Town of Tallinn has managed to wholly preserve its structure of medieval and Hanseatic origin.
4.6 km · UNESCO World Heritage site · Wikipedia - 09St. Mary's Cathedral
St. Mary's Cathedral is a Lutheran cathedral church located on the Toompea hill in the medieval central part of Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia.
5 km · church building in Tallinn, Estonia · Wikipedia - 10Kadriorg Palace
Kadriorg Palace is an 18th-century Petrine Baroque palace in Kadriorg, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Both the Estonian and the German names for the palace mean "Catherine's valley".
2.1 km · palace in Tallinn, Estonia · 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.
Getting to Lasnamäe
- Airports
- Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 3 km · Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 98 km · Turku (TKU), 186 km
- Stations
- Tallinn Airport, 2.8 km · Tallinn Baltic Station, 5.1 km · Old City Harbour, 3.5 km · Seaplane Harbour, 5.5 km
- Helsinki (Vantaa) → Lasnamäe99 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · €11–15
- Turku → Lasnamäe183 km · quickest by road, 5h 17m · €26–36
- Tampere / Pirkkala → Lasnamäe231 km · quickest by road, 5h 41m · €28–39
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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 Lasnamäe
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 Lasnamäe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inAll ferries dock at Reisisadam port, to the north of the centre.
- Get inThe most common ferry route is from Helsinki, Finland to Tallinn Port, which has upwards of 20 departures daily.
- Get inDepending on the ferry, journey time is 1½–3½ hours.
- Get inAll ferries also carry cars, from €25 one way.
- Get inBikes on car ferries must go through vehicle check-in, which closes earlier than passenger check-in, so plan for extra time.
From Wikivoyage: Tallinn, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Lasnamäe
Lasnamäe is 4 km from Tallinn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Tallinncapital and most populous city of Estonia4.7 km
- Kesklinndistrict of Tallinn4.3 km
- Piritadistrict of Tallinn3.3 km
- Walls of Tallinnhistoric wall built around the city of Tallinn, Estonia4.9 km
- Kadriorgsubdistrict in the district of Kesklinn, Tallinn, Estonia2 km