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Lysaker

Lysaker is an area in Bærum Municipality, Akershus County, Norway.

Lysaker
Lysaker · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Lysaker is an area in Bærum Municipality, Akershus County, Norway. Lysaker is the easternmost part of Bærum and borders Oslo proper. Lysaker was initially a farming community, later becoming a residential area. Today it is primarily known as a business and trade area, and a public transport hub. It is considered part of Stor-Oslo, and is home to offices of numerous domestic and international businesses.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lysaker

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
    University of Oslo

    The University of Oslo is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the oldest university in Norway.

    5.6 km · Norwegian public research university · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Unity Arena

    Unity Arena, previously known as Telenor Arena and Fornebu Arena, is a multi-purpose indoor arena located at Fornebu in Bærum, outside Oslo, Norway. It serves as a venue for a variety of events, including concerts, exhibitions, action shows, family shows, TV and sport.

    1.3 km · indoor multi-purpose arena in Oslo, Norway · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bislett Stadion

    Bislett Stadium is a sports stadium in Oslo, Norway. Bislett is Norway's most well known sports arena internationally, with 15 speed skating world records and more than 50 track and field world records having been set here.

    5.5 km · stadium at Oslo, Norway · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    National Library of Norway

    The National Library of Norway was established in 1989. Its principal task is "to preserve the past for the future".

    4.5 km · Norwegian national library · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Oslo City Hall

    Oslo City Hall is a municipal building in Oslo, the capital of Norway. It houses the city council, the city's administration and various other municipal organisations.

    5.4 km · city hall in Norway · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    National Theatre Oslo

    The National Theatre in Oslo is one of Norway's largest and most prominent venues for performance of dramatic arts.

    5.4 km · theatre in Oslo, Norway · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Vigeland installation

    Frogner Park is a public park in the central West End borough of Frogner in Oslo, Norway. The park is historically part of Frogner Manor and is Oslo's largest park, open to the public at all times.

    3.8 km · sculpture installation in Frogner Park · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Fram Museum

    The Fram Museum is a museum telling the story of Norwegian polar exploration. It is located on the peninsula of Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway.

    3.6 km · museum on the peninsula of Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

    The National Museum is a museum in Oslo, Norway which holds the Norwegian state's public collection of art, architecture, and design objects. The collection totals over 400,000 works, amongst them the first copy of Edvard Munch's The Scream from 1893.

    5.1 km · National Museum in Oslo · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Viking Ship Museum

    The Viking Ship Museum is located on the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo, Norway. It is temporarily closed from September 2021 until 2027.

    2.8 km · museum in Oslo · 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 Lysaker

Airports
Oslo-Gardermoen (OSL), 40 km · Sandefjord, Torp (TRF), 84 km · Scandinavian Mountains (SCR), 184 km
Stations
Lysaker station, 100 m · Majorstuen Metro Station, 4.7 km
  • Oslo (Gardermoen) → Lysaker
    41 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · kr70–95
  • Sandefjord(Torp) → Lysaker
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · kr130–175
  • Kristiansand(Kjevik) → Lysaker
    239 km · quickest by road, 5h 31m · kr370–490
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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.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lysaker

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBus 30 goes to destinations at the Bygdøy Peninsula, alternatively you can take the ferry .

From Wikivoyage: Oslo/West, 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
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    447 km
  2. 02
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    517 km
  3. 03
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    564 km
  4. 04
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    597 km
  5. 05626 km

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

Around it

Next door to Lysaker

Lysaker is 6 km from Oslo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Oslocapital city of Norway5.7 km
  • Fornebuvillage in Østlandet, Norway2.2 km
  • Frognerborough in Oslo, Norway3.3 km
  • Vestre Akerurban district in Oslo, Norway4.6 km
  • Nesoddtangensettlement in Nesodden Municipality, Norway5.6 km
  • Sentrumcentral district in Oslo, Norway5.4 km