Lauttasaari
Lauttasaari is an island in Helsinki, Finland, about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of the city centre.
Lauttasaari is an island in Helsinki, Finland, about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of the city centre. Together with some surrounding unpopulated small islands, Lauttasaari is also a district of Helsinki. With 23,226 residents as of 2017, the island is Finland's second largest by population, after Fasta Åland. Its land area is 3.85 km2.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Helsinki Old Church
- 02Lönnrotinpuistikko
A tiny little park next to the Old church.
- 03Amos Andersson Art Gallery
The largest private gallery of contemporary art in Finland.
- 04Helsinki
The centre of the Jewish community in Helsinki; there are also a Jewish school, kindergarten and a kosher store on the premises.
- 05Metropolia Polytech
- 06Aleksanterin
The Alexander theater, named after the Russian czar Alexander II and finished in 1879 is likely Helsinki's most beautiful venue for performance art.
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Things to do
- 01Aleksanterin
Bulevardi 23-27.
- 02Annantalo
Annantalo, a multimodal "house of art" arranges art workshops and courses for both kids and grownups, as well as performances and exhibitions.
- 03The Cable Factory
- 04Huone
Huone ("Room") claims to be the world's first event hotel, providing premises and services for their customers to hold their own events.
- 05Kasinonranta Beach
Lauttasaari, Tiirasaarentie (Buses 20N, 55A and 66A, stop Hevosenkenkäpuisto.).
- 06Little Theater
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Getting to Lauttasaari
- Airports
- Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 18 km · Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 83 km · Turku (TKU), 149 km
- Turku → Lauttasaari147 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · €16–23
- Tampere / Pirkkala → Lauttasaari155 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · €19–27
- Lappeenranta → Lauttasaari207 km · quickest by road, 3h 52m · €23–32
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Lauttasaari
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 Lauttasaari. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Lauttasaari – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Lauttasaari
Lauttasaari is 4 km from Helsinki, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.