Puotinharju
Puotinharju (Finnish), Botbyhöjden (Swedish) is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.

Puotinharju (Finnish), Botbyhöjden (Swedish) is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland. At the end of 2022, 35 percent of the residents of the Puotinharju postal code area were of foreign background.
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Worth seeing in and around Puotinharju
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.
- 01Itis
Itis is a shopping center located in Itäkeskus in East Helsinki. It is located next to the Itäväylä motorway and the Itäkeskus metro station.
600 m · shopping mall in East Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 02Viikki 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.
3.3 km · church in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 03Kirsikkapuisto
Kirsikkapuisto opened in 2007 in the Roihuvuori district of Helsinki, and is part of the Roihuvuori green area. The southern area has a fenced off dog park.
2.9 km · park in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 04Maamerkki
Maamerkki is a high-rise building on Kauppakartanonkatu street near the Lyypekinaukio square in Itäkeskus in the Vartiokylä district of Helsinki, Finland. The building is 82 metres high and has 19 floors and has a viewing terrace at the top.
900 m · high-rise building in Itäkeskus, Helsinki · Wikipedia - 05Cirrus
Cirrus is a high-rise cooperative apartment building in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Cirrus is the eighth tallest building in Finland with a height of 86 meters.
3.6 km · apartment building in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 06Columbus Shopping Centre
Columbus is a shopping centre in Vuosaari, Helsinki, Finland, right next to the Vuosaari metro station. It is owned by Citycon.
3.5 km · shopping centre in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 07Viikki Campus
The Viikki Campus is a campus area of the University of Helsinki in Finland, focusing on biological sciences. It comprises following units: Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry Faculty of Biosciences Faculty of Pharmacy Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Institute of Biotechnology Viikki Science Library Besides these units of the University of Helsinki, the campus area also hosts the Helsinki Science Park and the Finnish Food Safety Authority.
3.9 km · campus area of the University of Helsinki · Wikipedia - 08Malmi cemetery
The Malmi Cemetery is a large cemetery located at the corner between Ring I and the Lahti Highway in the Malmi district in Helsinki, Finland. It is the largest cemetery in Finland in terms of both area and number of burials.
3.8 km · cemetery in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 09Hertsi
Hertsi is a shopping center located in Herttoniemi, Helsinki, Finland, the construction of which was completed in the spring of 2020. It is located along Itäväylä, quite close to Herttoniemi metro station.
3.7 km · shopping mall in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 10Playground Tuhkimo
Playground Tuhkimo is a public, free of charge park at Roihuvuori district in Helsinki, Finland.
2.7 km · park in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Puotinharju
- Airports
- Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 13 km · Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 90 km · Tampere-Pirkkala (TMP), 155 km
- Stations
- Itäkeskus metro station, 800 m · Siilitie metro station, 2.5 km · Mellunmäki metro station, 2.8 km · Rastila metro station, 2.5 km · Puotila metro station, 600 m
- Tampere / Pirkkala → Puotinharju156 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · €19–27
- Turku → Puotinharju157 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · €18–25
- Lappeenranta → Puotinharju194 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · €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 Puotinharju
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 Puotinharju. 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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Next door to Puotinharju
Puotinharju is 10 km from Helsinki, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Vuosaaricity district and the 54th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland3.4 km
- Itäkeskusquarter in the neighbourhood of Vartiokylä in Helsinki, Finland1 km
- Herttoniemi43rd neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland2.6 km
- Tammisalo44th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland3.1 km
- Kurkimäkineighborhood of Helsinki in Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland2.1 km
- Vartiokyläcity district and the 45th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland900 m