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Ylöjärvi

Ylöjärvi is a town in Finland, located in the Pirkanmaa region.

Ylöjärvi
Ylöjärvi · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Ylöjärvi is a town in Finland, located in the Pirkanmaa region. It lies to the west of the regional capital, Tampere. The population of Ylöjärvi is approximately 34,000, while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately 428,000. It is the 35th most populous municipality in Finland, and the fourth largest in the Pirkanmaa region after Tampere, Nokia, and Kangasala.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ylöjärvi

2 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
    Westeri

    Westeri is a shopping center completed in the spring of 2018 in the Tesomajärvi district of Tampere, Finland. The anchor tenant is the grocery store K-Supermarket, in connection with which Posti and Matkahuolto points serve.

    5.5 km · shopping mall in Tampere, Finland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Like

    Like is a shopping center located in Lielahti, Tampere, Finland. The shopping center has an internal connection to the adjacent Prisma hypermarket.

    5.6 km · shopping mall in Tampere, 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.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Peltomäki Wake Park

    Säynäväjärventie 38, reception@peltomakiresort.fi.

  2. 02
    Seitseminen National Park

From Wikivoyage: Ylöjärvi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Lounas- ja juhlapalvelu Vänrikki

    The selections include breakfast, café products and lunch with dessert.

From Wikivoyage: Ylöjärvi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Ylöjärvi

Airports
Tampere-Pirkkala (TMP), 15 km · Turku (TKU), 135 km · Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 156 km
Stations
Tesoma railway station, 5.7 km
  • Turku → Ylöjärvi
    142 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · €17–23
  • Helsinki (Vantaa) → Ylöjärvi
    161 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · €19–27
  • Vaasa → Ylöjärvi
    199 km · quickest by road, 3h 57m · €23–32
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ylöjärvi

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextIt makes an interesting day trip by train, bus or car.

From Wikivoyage: Tampere, 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

    141 km
  2. 02
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    175 km
  3. 03176 km
  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

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

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    255 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ylöjärvi

  • Pohtolacity district in Tampere, Finland5 km
  • Tesomadistrict in Tampere, Finland5.1 km
  • Lielahticity district in Tampere, Finland5.8 km
  • Ikuricity district in Tampere, Finland4.4 km
  • Epilänharjucity district in Tampere, Finland5.8 km
  • Ristimäkicity district in Tampere, Finland5.8 km