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# Smolna, Helsinki

The Smolna is an Empire style building in the Kaartinkaupunki district of Helsinki, Finland.

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## Every way there

- Turku → Smolna, Helsinki 151 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · €17–23 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/turku-to-smolna-helsinki) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Turku&to=Smolna%2C+Helsinki)
- Tampere / Pirkkala → Smolna, Helsinki 161 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · €18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tampere-pirkkala-to-smolna-helsinki) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tampere+%2F+Pirkkala&to=Smolna%2C+Helsinki)
- Lappeenranta → Smolna, Helsinki 203 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · €23–32 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/lappeenranta-to-smolna-helsinki) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Lappeenranta&to=Smolna%2C+Helsinki)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Smolna, Helsinki, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Smolna, Helsinki has

- Y Scheduled flights Helsinki (Vantaa) (HEL), 17 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries Kauppatori (Kolera-allas), 0 km; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: East Helsinki, 9 km.

60.167°, 24.950°

It is usually used by the Finnish Government as a banquet hall as well as a space for hosting visiting dignitaries and government negotiations. However, currently it is serving as the government headquarters due to renovations of the Government Palace, though activities other than meetings will take place in an adjacent building on Eteläesplanadi 4

How locals move

## Getting around Smolna, Helsinki the local way

- Get in If you arrive by Viking Line's ferries from Stockholm or Tallinn, their terminal is in Katajanokka.

From [Wikivoyage: Helsinki/Kruununhaka and Katajanokka](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Helsinki%2FKruununhaka_and_Katajanokka), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smolna%2C_Helsinki), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Fanni Uusitalo, valtioneuvoston kanslia (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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