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Neighborhood of Helsinki in Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland

Vartioharju

Vartioharju (Finnish), Botbyåsen (Swedish) is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.

Vartioharju
Vartioharju · Simo Rista
The place

Vartioharju (Finnish), Botbyåsen (Swedish) is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland. It is a part of the Vartiokylä district.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Vartioharju

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.

  1. 01
    Itis

    Itis is a shopping center located in Itäkeskus in East Helsinki. It is located next to the Itäväylä motorway and the Itäkeskus metro station.

    1.2 km · shopping mall in East Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kirsikkapuisto

    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.

    3.6 km · park in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Maamerkki

    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.

    1.3 km · high-rise building in Itäkeskus, Helsinki · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Columbus Shopping Centre

    Columbus is a shopping centre in Vuosaari, Helsinki, Finland, right next to the Vuosaari metro station. It is owned by Citycon.

    2.7 km · shopping centre in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cirrus

    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.

    2.8 km · apartment building in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Playground Tuhkimo

    Playground Tuhkimo is a public, free of charge park at Roihuvuori district in Helsinki, Finland.

    3.3 km · park in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Vuosaarenhuippu

    Vuosaarenhuippu is a recreational area in the northern part of Vuosaari in eastern Helsinki, Finland. Earlier it was the Vuosaari dumping ground and a place where land masses from construction sites were deposited.

    3.7 km · Reclamated dumping ground in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Atlas

    Vuosaari is a neighbourhood in the city of Helsinki, Finland. It is located by the sea in East Helsinki and with its area of 15.38 km2 is geographically the largest district in the city.

    2.8 km · high-rise building in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Roihuvuori pesäpallo field

    Roihuttaret is a women's Finnish baseball team from Helsinki. It was founded in 1958.

    3.5 km · pesäpallo stadium in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Easton Helsinki

    Easton Helsinki is a shopping centre in Itäkeskus, Helsinki, Finland. It is connected to the Itis shopping centre through the Hansasilta bridge.

    1.1 km · shopping mall in eastern Helsinki · 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.

Go there

Getting to Vartioharju

Airports
Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 14 km · Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 91 km · Tampere-Pirkkala (TMP), 156 km
Stations
Siilitie metro station, 3.4 km · Itäkeskus metro station, 1.4 km · Mellunmäki metro station, 2.5 km · Rastila metro station, 1.7 km · Kontula metro station, 2.3 km
  • Tampere / Pirkkala → Vartioharju
    155 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · €19–27
  • Turku → Vartioharju
    158 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · €18–25
  • Lappeenranta → Vartioharju
    192 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · €21–30
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Vartioharju

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 Vartioharju. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe ferries from Germany nowadays dock at Vuosaari harbor, which is located in eastern Helsinki.

From Wikivoyage: Helsinki/Eastern suburbs, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Turku and the archipelago gatewayFI

    11 ways of moving, 13 sources

    158 km
  2. 02176 km
  3. 03
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    206 km
  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    238 km
  5. 05
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    286 km

If you know how people move in Vartioharju – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Vartioharju

Vartioharju is 11 km from Helsinki, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Vuosaaricity district and the 54th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland2.5 km
  • Itäkeskusquarter in the neighbourhood of Vartiokylä in Helsinki, Finland1.5 km
  • Herttoniemi43rd neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland3.3 km
  • Kurkimäkineighborhood of Helsinki in Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland2.6 km
  • Tammisalo44th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland3.5 km
  • Mellunkylä47th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland1.9 km