Pakila
Pakila is a neighbourhood in Northern Helsinki, about nine kilometers from the city center.
Pakila is a neighbourhood in Northern Helsinki, about nine kilometers from the city center. It comprises Länsi-Pakila and Itä-Pakila. Pakila has approximately 10 275 inhabitants.
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Worth seeing in and around Pakila
2 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.
- 01Central Park
Central Park is a park in Helsinki, Finland. It has an area of 10 square kilometres.
3.4 km · park in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 02Karjalatalo
Karjalatalo is a red brick building in the Käpylä neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland. It is owned by the Karelian Association, who built it as a meeting place for the Finnish Karelians who were displaced during World War II and their descendants.
3.9 km · building in Helsinki, Finland; owned by the Karelian Association · 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 Pakila
- Airports
- Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 8 km · Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 93 km · Tampere-Pirkkala (TMP), 149 km
- Stations
- Oulunkylä railway station, 2.6 km · Käpylä railway station, 3.3 km · Pukinmäki railway station, 2.6 km · Malmi railway station, 3.4 km
- Tampere / Pirkkala → Pakila149 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · €18–25
- Turku → Pakila149 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · €17–23
- Lappeenranta → Pakila198 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · €22–31
- 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 Pakila
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 Pakila. 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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If you know how people move in Pakila – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Pakila
Pakila is 9 km from Helsinki, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Oulunkylä28th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland2.1 km
- Malmi38th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland3.3 km
- Käpylä25th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland3.9 km
- Kaarelacity district and the 33rd neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland3.7 km
- Länsi-Pakilaneighborhood of Helsinki in Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland1.8 km
- Koskela26th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland3.7 km