Vantaa
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.
Getting to Vantaa
The city is indeed accessible by air, as Finland's main airport is in Vantaa:
- 01Helsinki Airport
- 02Tikkurila Railway Station.
- 03Myyrmäki Railway Station
- 04Kivistö Railway Station.
Highways 3, 4 (E75), 45 and 7 out of Helsinki go through Vantaa and the main east-western road is the third Helsinki ring road (Kehä III), which is mostly part of the E18 route.
Worth seeing
- 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.
Getting around Vantaa the local way
- 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. Last edited 2026-06.
Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Ввласенко (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.