Vartiokylä
Vartiokylä is a district in the East Helsinki area of Helsinki, the capital of Finland.
Vartiokylä is a district in the East Helsinki area of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Its name is derived from the ruins of an eleventh-century fortress on the Linnanvuori hill in Vartioharju, one of Vartiokylä's subdivisions. The working population of Helsinki started building their houses in the area after the completion of Uusi Porvoontie, a road to the downtown, in the 1930s. Vartiokylä became a part of Helsinki in 1946. Larger-scale construction of suburban housing estates, such as Puotila, started in the 1960s. During the next decade, the building of Itäkeskus began, and it became the largest service centre for Vartiokylä and East Helsinki.
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Worth seeing in and around Vartiokylä
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.
1.2 km · shopping mall in East Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 02Maamerkki
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 - 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.
3.6 km · park in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 04Columbus 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 - 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.
2.8 km · apartment building in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 06Playground Tuhkimo
Playground Tuhkimo is a public, free of charge park at Roihuvuori district in Helsinki, Finland.
3.3 km · park in Helsinki, Finland · Wikipedia - 07Vuosaarenhuippu
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 - 08Atlas
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 - 09Roihuvuori 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 - 10Easton 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
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Getting to Vartiokylä
- Airports
- Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 14 km · Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 91 km · Tampere-Pirkkala (TMP), 156 km
- Stations
- Itäkeskus metro station, 1.4 km · Siilitie metro station, 3.4 km · Mellunmäki metro station, 2.5 km · Rastila metro station, 1.7 km · Myllypuro metro station, 1.6 km
- Tampere / Pirkkala → Vartiokylä156 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · €19–27
- Turku → Vartiokylä158 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · €18–25
- Lappeenranta → Vartiokylä193 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · €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 Vartiokylä
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 Vartiokylä. 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 Vartiokylä
Vartiokylä 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
- Tammisalo44th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland3.5 km
- Kurkimäkineighborhood of Helsinki in Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland2.6 km
- Mellunkylä47th neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland1.9 km