Vantaa
Vantaa is a city in Finland.
Vantaa is a city in Finland. It is located to the north of the capital, Helsinki, in southern Uusimaa. The population of Vantaa is approximately 253,000. It is the 4th most populous municipality in Finland. Vantaa is part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, which has approximately 1.6 million inhabitants.
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Worth seeing in and around Vantaa
5 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.
- 01Finnish Aviation Museum
The Finnish Aviation Museum is a museum specialising in aircraft, located near Helsinki Airport in Veromies, Vantaa, Finland.
4.5 km · aviation museum in Vantaa, Finland · Wikipedia - 02Itis
Itis is a shopping center located in Itäkeskus in East Helsinki. It is located next to the Itäväylä motorway and the Itäkeskus metro station.
9.5 km · shopping mall in East Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 03Museum of Technology
The Museum of Technology, Helsinki, is located in Helsinki, Finland. It is the only general museum of technology in the country.
9.2 km · museum in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 04Viikki 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.
6.8 km · church in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 05Helsinge Church
The Church of St. Lawrence is a church in Vantaa, Finland.
3.2 km · church building in Vantaa, 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.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Heureka
Kuninkaalantie 7 (Near Tikkurila railway station).
- 02Vantaa Agricultural Museum
- 03Suomen Ilmailumuseo
- 04Vantaa City
- 05Collection and Conservation Center
- 06Fazer Experience Visitor Centre
Finland's largest candy manufacturer and bakery has a visitor centre, which can be visited on a guided tour.
From Wikivoyage: Vantaa, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Vantaa
- Airports
- Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 5 km · Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 99 km · Tampere-Pirkkala (TMP), 147 km
- Stations
- Helsinki Airport, 4.9 km · Itäkeskus metro station, 9.6 km · Siilitie metro station, 9.9 km · Mellunmäki metro station, 7.3 km · Puotila metro station, 9.3 km
- Tampere / Pirkkala → Vantaa147 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · €18–26
- Turku → Vantaa153 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · €17–24
- Lappeenranta → Vantaa191 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · €22–30
- 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 Vantaa
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 Vantaa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA few European roads lead to Helsinki: E12 leads from Norway's coast through Vaasa (following the Blue Highway at that leg); E18 comes in from Stockholm in the west and from Saint Petersburg in the east; E67 (Via Baltica) ends in Tallinn, with several car ferries to Helsinki; E75 comes in from northern Norway and continues south-west by a non-existent ferry connection.
- Go nextThe Archipelago Sea and Åland to the west are known for their beauty and are accessible also by car and bicycle thanks to the ferries.
- Go nextThere is also a ferry directly from Hanko to Sweden.
- Go nextThere are about 10 daily ferry departures from Helsinki to Tallinn (in the summer even more).
From Wikivoyage: Uusimaa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.
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Next door to Vantaa
Vantaa is 15 km from Helsinki, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Oulunkylä28th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland7.9 km
- Tikkurilacity district in Vantaa, Finland500 m
- Malmi38th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland5.2 km
- Itäkeskusquarter in the neighbourhood of Vartiokylä in Helsinki, Finland9.8 km
- Vanhakaupunki27th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland9.6 km
- Pakila34th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland7 km