Guidebook for Helsinki

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Guidebook for Helsinki

Food Scene

Wine + snacks + coffee
50 locals recommend
Bergga
14 Viides linja
50 locals recommend
Wine + snacks + coffee
Excellent North African food. Booking recommended.
165 locals recommend
Sandro Kallio
17 Kolmas linja
165 locals recommend
Excellent North African food. Booking recommended.
They say they make the best coffee in Helsinki.
58 locals recommend
Good Life Coffee Oy
17 Kolmas linja
58 locals recommend
They say they make the best coffee in Helsinki.
Authentic Finnish restaurant.
53 locals recommend
Cella
15 Fleminginkatu
53 locals recommend
Authentic Finnish restaurant.
New small restaurant around the block. Reservation recommended.
51 locals recommend
Restaurant Kolmon3n
11 Kolmas linja
51 locals recommend
New small restaurant around the block. Reservation recommended.
Excellent Finnish food with a rooftop view of the city.
11 locals recommend
Ravintola Loiste
3 Kaivokatu
11 locals recommend
Excellent Finnish food with a rooftop view of the city.
Delicious Thai food.
90 locals recommend
Lemon Grass
12 Kolmas linja
90 locals recommend
Delicious Thai food.
Cosy restaurant and bar for easy night out near home.
30 locals recommend
Kallion Sävel
2 Hämeentie
30 locals recommend
Cosy restaurant and bar for easy night out near home.
Beautiful, traditional small café by the sea.
225 locals recommend
Regatta
8 Merikannontie
225 locals recommend
Beautiful, traditional small café by the sea.

Entertainment & Activities

Winter garden (indoor tropical garden) - free!
41 locals recommend
Helsinki Winter Garden
1 A Hammarskjöldintie
41 locals recommend
Winter garden (indoor tropical garden) - free!
Linnanmäki amusement park.
220 locals recommend
Linnanmaki
1 Tivolikuja
220 locals recommend
Linnanmäki amusement park.
Open all year around indoor Sea Life.
43 locals recommend
SEA LIFE Helsinki
10 Tivolitie
43 locals recommend
Open all year around indoor Sea Life.
Natural History Museum has excellent exhibitions suitable both for adults and kids.
89 locals recommend
Finnish Museum of Natural History
13 Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu
89 locals recommend
Natural History Museum has excellent exhibitions suitable both for adults and kids.
Free park for children just around the corner.
Leikkipuisto Linja
Castréninkatu
Free park for children just around the corner.
Outdoor swimming stadium (open during the summer). Excelent for kids.
62 locals recommend
Helsinki Swimming Stadium
5 Hammarskjöldintie
62 locals recommend
Outdoor swimming stadium (open during the summer). Excelent for kids.

Sightseeing

The Opera house
25 locals recommend
Ooppera station
25 locals recommend
The Opera house
The Helsinki Concert Hall + restaurant.
38 locals recommend
Musiikkitalo
Töölönlahdenkatu
38 locals recommend
The Helsinki Concert Hall + restaurant.
Kallio Church
63 locals recommend
Kallio Church
2 Itäinen Papinkatu
63 locals recommend
Kallio Church
Suomenlinna Fortress is a World Heritage Site and is accessible with a short ferry ride from Kauppatori. It has beautiful landscape with old military buildings and the sea.
430 locals recommend
Suomenlinna
430 locals recommend
Suomenlinna Fortress is a World Heritage Site and is accessible with a short ferry ride from Kauppatori. It has beautiful landscape with old military buildings and the sea.
The Helsinki Stadium where the 1952 Olympics were held.
75 locals recommend
Helsinki Olympic Stadium
1 Paavo Nurmen tie
75 locals recommend
The Helsinki Stadium where the 1952 Olympics were held.
Summer cafés and beautiful walk through out the year by the Töölö Bay.
10 locals recommend
Linnunlaulu
Linnunlauluntie
10 locals recommend
Summer cafés and beautiful walk through out the year by the Töölö Bay.
All tourist busses check out Sibelius monument - a statue in the honour of our late composer Sibelius.
166 locals recommend
The Sibelius Monument
Mechelininkatu
166 locals recommend
All tourist busses check out Sibelius monument - a statue in the honour of our late composer Sibelius.
Rock Church is an interestingly different kind of church as it's build inside a rock.
258 locals recommend
Temppeliaukio Church
3 Lutherinkatu
258 locals recommend
Rock Church is an interestingly different kind of church as it's build inside a rock.
Old wooden sailing boats live here during the summers.
Vedkajen
Halkolaituri
Old wooden sailing boats live here during the summers.

Everything Else

Hakaniemi metro stop
12 locals recommend
Hakaniemi Metro Station
12 locals recommend
Hakaniemi metro stop
Used to be an art school for Finnish master painters and works now as a high quality art museum.
253 locals recommend
Ateneum
2 Kaivokatu
253 locals recommend
Used to be an art school for Finnish master painters and works now as a high quality art museum.
Sports centre & indoor swimming hall.
24 locals recommend
Urheilutalo station
24 locals recommend
Sports centre & indoor swimming hall.
Free public sauna. Open durign the summer every day 24h.
69 locals recommend
Sompasauna
6 Verkkosaarenkuja
69 locals recommend
Free public sauna. Open durign the summer every day 24h.
Experience traditional Finnish sauna. Men and Women separated.
50 locals recommend
Sauna Arla
15 Kaarlenkatu
50 locals recommend
Experience traditional Finnish sauna. Men and Women separated.
Experience traditional Finnish sauna. Men and Women separated.
151 locals recommend
Kotiharjun Sauna
1 Harjutorinkatu
151 locals recommend
Experience traditional Finnish sauna. Men and Women separated.

Essentials

Hakaniemi market hall for fresh local and organic groceries and small cafes.
185 locals recommend
Hakaniemi Market Hall
1 Hämeentie
185 locals recommend
Hakaniemi market hall for fresh local and organic groceries and small cafes.
Hakaniemi market square for outdoor groceries, breakfast or coffee.
10 locals recommend
Hakaniemen torikatu
Hakaniemen torikatu
10 locals recommend
Hakaniemi market square for outdoor groceries, breakfast or coffee.
Nearest grocery store.
12 locals recommend
Alepa Kallio
9-11 Castréninkatu
12 locals recommend
Nearest grocery store.
Liquor store Alko.
39 locals recommend
Alko
33 Vuorimiehenkatu
39 locals recommend
Liquor store Alko.

Shopping

Pharmacy
11 locals recommend
Ympyrätalon apteekki
18 Siltasaarenkatu
11 locals recommend
Pharmacy
Shopping mall with metro station. Bus terminal (busses towards Espoo). Long distance bus terminal.
99 locals recommend
Kamppi
99 locals recommend
Shopping mall with metro station. Bus terminal (busses towards Espoo). Long distance bus terminal.
Cute independent children's book store.
Fleminginkatu 8
8 Fleminginkatu
Cute independent children's book store.
Boutique for local design and craft.
Made in Kallio
14 Vaasankatu
Boutique for local design and craft.
Vintage clothing
14 locals recommend
Ansa second hand
5 Agricolankatu
14 locals recommend
Vintage clothing
Arabia & Iittala & Finnlayson outlet for Finnish designer's glass ware, creamics and textiles. Café. Lunch restaurant. Arabia creamics museum.
Hämeentie 135
135 Hämeentie
Arabia & Iittala & Finnlayson outlet for Finnish designer's glass ware, creamics and textiles. Café. Lunch restaurant. Arabia creamics museum.

Arts & Culture

Modern Art Museum.
384 locals recommend
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
2 Mannerheiminaukio
384 locals recommend
Modern Art Museum.