Rinkeby
Rinkeby is a district in the Rinkeby-Kista borough, Stockholm, Sweden.
Rinkeby is a district in the Rinkeby-Kista borough, Stockholm, Sweden. Rinkeby had 19,349 inhabitants in 2016. The neighbourhood was part of the Million Programme.
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Worth seeing in and around Rinkeby
7 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.
- 01Kista Science Tower
Kista Science Tower is a 32-story, 124 m skyscraper in Kista, Stockholm, Sweden. With its roof-top antenna, its height is 156 m, making it one of the tallest buildings in the country, just between Turning Torso and Scandic Victoria Tower.
1.9 km · Tall building in Stockholm, Swedem · Wikipedia - 02Scandic Victoria Tower
The Scandic Victoria Tower is a skyscraper hotel in the Kista district of Stockholm, Sweden. It is also known as the Victoria Tower, however the Scandic name is used to distinguish it from the Victoria Tower that forms the southwest end of the Palace of Westminster.
2.6 km · hotel building in Kista, northern Stockholm, Sweden · Wikipedia - 03Kista Galleria
Kista Galleria is a shopping mall located in the Kista Science City in Stockholm, Sweden. It has 185 stores, including a multiplex, bowling alley, karting track and restaurants.
1.7 km · shopping mall in Kista, Sweden · Wikipedia - 04Lötsjön
Lötsjön is a small lake in Sundbyberg, a municipality north of Stockholm, Sweden. The shallow lake features a rich variety of water birds and a fountain.
2.9 km · lake in Sundbyberg Municipality, Sweden · Wikipedia - 05Råstasjön
Råstasjön is a lake next to the Strawberry Arena in Solna north of Stockholm, Sweden. On the lake, the 1912 final of the Swedish national bandy championship took place.
3.8 km · lake in Solna Municipality, Sweden · Wikipedia - 06Spånga Church
Spånga Church is a church in the Spånga-Tensta borough in Stockholm, Sweden. It is part of Spånga-Kista Parish in the Diocese of Stockholm.
1 km · church in Spånga, northwest Stockholm, Sweden · Wikipedia - 07Uppland Runic Inscription Fv1953;263
Uppland Runic Inscription Fv1953;263 or U Fv1953;263 is the Rundata catalog listing for a Viking Age memorial runestone that was discovered at Helenelund, which is in Sollentuna, Stockholm County, Sweden, which was in the historic province of Uppland.
3.6 km · Rundata catalog listing for a Viking Age memorial runestone · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Hagaparken
A Royal Palace park in Solna with a rich history, open to the public, and great for picnics.
- 02The Haga Park Museum
An indoor museum which displays the history of the Royal Park, since the 18th century.
- 03Butterfly House
A tropical greenhouse open around the year.
- 04Gustav III:s
Open to the public during summer.
- 05Norra Begravningsplatsen
Among famous Swedes buried here are Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, actress Ingrid Bergman, humanitarian Folke Bernadotte, and fin-de-siècle writer August Strindberg.
- 06Ulriksdal Palace
An orangery with a collection of 18th and 19th century sculptures.
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Things to do
- 01Strawberry Arena
- 02Ulriksdals Golfklubb
Several beaches for water sport, especially at Hässelby.
- 03Kistamässan
A convention center opened in 2008, hosting a broad set of events, many of them about information technology.
- 04Solvalla
- 05Bodyflight Stockholm
- 06B, Bromma Sweden. Indoor
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Where to eat
The suburban centres have low-end diners. 1 Tony's Pizzeria, Norrbyvägen 16 (T Bromma). An Italian restaurant serving Italian-style pizzas and BBQ kebab.
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Getting to Rinkeby
- Airports
- Stockholm-Arlanda (ARN), 29 km · Stockholm Västerås (VST), 76 km · Stockholm Skavsta (NYO), 88 km
- Stations
- Stockholm Bromma Airport, 3.8 km · Akalla metro station, 3.1 km · Tensta metro station, 1.6 km · Hjulsta metro station, 2.5 km · Duvbo metro station, 3 km
- Stockholm / Västerås → Rinkeby77 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · kr85–115
- Nyköping → Rinkeby88 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · kr100–135
- Linköping → Rinkeby171 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · kr195–260
- 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 Rinkeby
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 Rinkeby. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inTapanis Buss has a route between Tornio, Finland and Stockholm serving coastal region along road E4 FlixBus Baltic sea ferries with passenger and vehicular (car and truck) capacities connect Stockholm with Helsinki, Turku, Riga and Tallinn.
- Get inA ferry from Gdańsk arrives in Nynäshamn, a port in the south of Södertörn.
- Get inE18, which leads by ferry from Finland to Norrtälje and goes north of the lake Mälaren through Västerås, Örebro and Karlstad to the Norwegian border and then on to Oslo E20, which goes south from Stockholm via Södertälje, and then, south of lake Mälaren, it goes west to Gothenburg.
- Get aroundSome archipelago islands are connected to the mainland by car ferries.
- Get aroundThere are also regular ferries between the islands which are operated by independent companies - some are under the same SL fare scheme, and others are not, requiring separate tickets.
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Next door to Rinkeby
Rinkeby is 10 km from Stockholm, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.