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Helsinki Subdivision in Uusimaa, Finland

Oulunkylä

Oulunkylä is a suburb and a neighbourhood of Helsinki, the capital of Finland.

Oulunkylä
Oulunkylä · Sundström, Hugo
The place

Oulunkylä is a suburb and a neighbourhood of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. It is located 6 kilometres (4 mi) north from the center of the city.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Oulunkylä

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 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.

    3.7 km · multifunctional indoor arena located in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture

    Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture was formed of two separate schools: the faculty of architecture and the University of Art and Design Helsinki. TaiK, founded in 1871, was the largest art university in the Nordic countries.

    2.7 km · Finnish university of design, architecture, arts, and audiovisual communication · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Central Park

    Central Park is a park in Helsinki, Finland. It has an area of 10 square kilometres.

    2.9 km · park in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Helsinki Velodrome

    Helsinki Velodrome is an outdoor velodrome, American football and field hockey stadium in Helsinki, Finland. The protected functionalist concrete building was designed by Hilding Ekelund.

    3.6 km · outdoor velodrome and American football stadium in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Viikki 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.

    3.7 km · church in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Museum of Technology

    The Museum of Technology, Helsinki, is located in Helsinki, Finland. It is the only general museum of technology in the country.

    2.1 km · museum in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Saint Paul Church in Helsinki

    St. Paul's Church is a Lutheran church located in the Vallila neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.

    4 km · church building in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Arabia (shopping centre)

    Arabia is a shopping centre located in the Arabianranta district of Helsinki, Finland. From 2015 to 2019 it was owned by Citycon.

    3.4 km · shopping centre in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Arcada University of Applied Sciences

    Arcada University of Applied Sciences is a Swedish-language university of applied sciences in Helsinki, Finland. It is owned and maintained by the Arcada Foundation.

    3.6 km · university of applied sciences (polytechnic) in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Kumpula Campus

    The Kumpula Campus is a science campus of the University of Helsinki. The campus is located some four kilometres from the centre of Helsinki, in the Kumpula district.

    3.2 km · university campus in Helsinki, Finland · 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 Oulunkylä

Airports
Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 9 km · Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 92 km · Tampere-Pirkkala (TMP), 151 km
Stations
Ilmala railway station, 3.8 km · Oulunkylä railway station, 600 m · Malmi railway station, 3.3 km · Käpylä railway station, 1.8 km · Pukinmäki railway station, 1.9 km
  • Tampere / Pirkkala → Oulunkylä
    151 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · €18–25
  • Turku → Oulunkylä
    150 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · €17–23
  • Lappeenranta → Oulunkylä
    198 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · €22–31
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Oulunkylä

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe ferries from Germany nowadays dock at Vuosaari harbor, which is located in eastern Helsinki.

From Wikivoyage: Helsinki/Eastern suburbs, 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 Oulunkylä – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Oulunkylä

Oulunkylä is 7 km from Helsinki, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Malmi38th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland3 km
  • Vanhakaupunki27th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland2.3 km
  • Käpylä25th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland2.3 km
  • Toukola23rd neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland2.8 km
  • Kumpula24th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland2.7 km
  • Pakila34th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland2.1 km