Tensta
Tensta is a district in Spånga-Tensta borough, Stockholm, Sweden.
Tensta is a district in Spånga-Tensta borough, Stockholm, Sweden. There are about 6,000 apartments in Tensta and a population of 18,637 as of December 31, 2022.
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Worth seeing in and around Tensta
4 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.
2.7 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.
3.5 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.
2.6 km · shopping mall in Kista, Sweden · Wikipedia - 04Spånga 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.
700 m · church in Spånga, northwest Stockholm, Sweden · Wikipedia
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Getting to Tensta
- Airports
- Stockholm-Arlanda (ARN), 28 km · Stockholm Västerås (VST), 75 km · Stockholm Skavsta (NYO), 88 km
- Stations
- Tensta metro station, 100 m · Akalla metro station, 2.4 km · Hjulsta metro station, 800 m · Rissne metro station, 3 km · Rinkeby metro station, 1.7 km
- Stockholm / Västerås → Tensta75 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · kr85–110
- Nyköping → Tensta88 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · kr110–145
- Linköping → Tensta171 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · kr200–265
- 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 Tensta
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 Tensta. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Stockholm County, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.
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Next door to Tensta
Tensta is 12 km from Stockholm, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Rinkebyurban district in Stockholm, Sweden1.7 km
- Kistaurban district in Stockholm, Sweden2.6 km
- Hässelby-Vällingby city districtcity district in Stockholm, Sweden3.9 km
- Vällingbyurban district in Stockholm, Sweden3.9 km
- Husbyurban district in northern Stockholm, Sweden2.2 km
- Akallaurban district in Stockholm, Sweden2.3 km