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Delve into Käpylä
The district Käpylä of Helsinki in Helsinki (Uusimaa) is a district located in Finland and is a district of the nations capital.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 5°C / 41 °F
Morning Temperature | 2°C / 35 °F |
Evening Temperature | 3°C / 38 °F |
Night Temperature | 3°C / 38 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 83% |
Air Pressure | 1002 hPa |
Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 6 km/h (4 mph) from West |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 85% of sky |
General Conditions | Overcast clouds |
Friday, 29th of March 2024
6°C (42 °F)
3°C (37 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Saturday, 30th of March 2024
3°C (37 °F)
3°C (37 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Sunday, 31st of March 2024
4°C (39 °F)
3°C (38 °F)
Broken clouds, moderate breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Park Hotel Helsinki
SCANDIC PARK
SCANDIC MARSKI
Original Sokos Presidentti
GLO Kluuvi
Original Sokos Helsinki
Cumulus City Meilahti Helsinki
Haaga Hotel
Helsinki Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel
Solo Sokos Torni
Videos from this area
These are videos related to the place based on their proximity to this place.
VR Finland Tikkurila to Helsinki Central Tikkurilan Helsingin päärautatieasema
Journey aboard VR Finland Helsinki area commuter service from Tikkurila to Helsinki Central Station.
KISS - Detroit Rock City @ Hartwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland 3.6.2013
Sorry for the jitters at the end, it's YouTube's stabilization that causes those.
Star Wars Battlefront - Assault on Cloud City
Star Wars Battlefront Cloud City with Clubbed to Death by Rob Dougan.
Helsingin kaupunginkirjasto | Helsinki City Library
Helsingin kaupunginkirjasto (pääkirjasto) Pasilassa. Rakennus on vuodelta 1986. Uutta keskustakirjastoa suunnitellaan parhaillaan ja sen pitäisi olla valmis vuonna 2017. ----- Helsinki...
Helsinki Tramways Route 7B Pasila - Pasila Full Circle
The complete journey aboard the anti-clockwise circular route 7B originating from Pasila.
Helsinki Tramways Route 9 Central Station to Pasila
The journey aboard the Helsinki Tramways Route 9 from Helsinki Central to Pasila.
Tuhma Pupu (The Naughty Bunny)
A small village is terrorized by very big, naughty bunny, who likes sex. Animation.
[Helsinki Area by Skates] Taivaskallio WW II anti-aircraft base
Taivaskallio (Swedish: Himmelberget) is the highest natural hill in the Helsinki city. During the Second World War the hill was used as an anti-aircraft base, which can still seen clearly on the top.
Terminaalitapaus - Terminaali, Pasila vitonen ja T3053.
Noin yhdeksän kuukautta on vierähtänyt siitä, kun Nokivasara.com väkkäröi Pasilan yläpihalla videokameroineen. Tuolloin alueella vallitsi yleinen uudistamisvimmainen mentaliteetti,...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Yle
Yleisradio, also known as Rundradion or the Finnish Broadcasting Company, abbreviated to Yle, is Finland's national public-broadcasting company, founded in 1926. Yleisradio's organization shares many of the characteristics of its British counterpart, the BBC, on which it was largely modelled. It employs around 3,200 people in Finland. Yle is a public limited company, owned by the Finnish state (with a 99.98% share).
Hartwall Areena
Hartwall Areena (often called Helsinki Areena, Helsingin Areena or Helsingforsarenan by the Finnish press) is a large multifunctional indoor arena located in Helsinki, Finland. The arena gets its name from its largest sponsor, the beverage company Hartwall, also based in Helsinki.
Pasila railway station
Pasila railway station is a railway station in Helsinki, Finland, approximately 3.5 kilometres north of Helsinki Central railway station. It is the second busiest railway station in Finland, after Helsinki Central, and takes up a large part of the district of Pasila. The station was first opened in 1862. Pasila station is used to ease the congestion on the city's central station by serving as an alternate point of departure or arrival within Helsinki.
Pasila
This article is about the suburb of Helsinki. For the TV series named after this suburb, see Pasila (TV series). Pasila is a suburb in Helsinki, Finland. It is a central-northern neighbourhood, bordering Alppila to the south, Central Park to the west and Vallila to the east. The eastern and western part of Pasila are separated by a large railroad classification yard, which, as Central Pasila, is currently under development planning by the city administration.
Kumpula Campus
The Kumpula Campus is a science campus of University of Helsinki. The campus is located some four kilometres from the centre of Helsinki, in the Kumpula district. Completed in 2005, it currently provides study and research facilities for about 6,000 students and 1,000 teachers/researchers.
Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre
The Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre is the biggest and most famous fair centre in Finland. It is located in the capital city of Helsinki. The exhibition & convention centre is located in eastern part of the district of Pasila, a short walk northwards from the Pasila railway station. Visitors to the center usually stay at the Holiday Inn hotel located immediately next to the fair centre. The exhibition & convention centre holds appr.
Vallila
Vallila is a neighbourhood in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Vallila is a central-northern neighbourhood, bordered by Pasila to the west and Alppiharju to the south. Like Kallio, Vallila is mostly residential and has a reputation of being a working-class neighbourhood. In the past two decades people from artistic professions have found the area.
Alppila
Alppila is a quarter of Helsinki, Finland. It is located north of the city centre, between the districts of Kallio and Pasila, and together with Harju it forms the district of Alppiharju. Alppila has a population of 4244 (as of 2005) and an area of 0.60 km². The Linnanmäki amusement park is located in Alppila.
Helsinki Motor Show
Helsinki Motor Show (HMS) is an annual national car show in Helsinki, Finland. It is organized around November to December and it has been held in the Helsinki Fair Center. It is the only annual motor show in the Nordic countries. In the beginning, HMS was a show based on motor sports but gradually more and more upcoming cars have been shown there. Most of the Finnish car importers are present. The event is organized by Team Nykopp Ltd. The show has attracted around 50,000 visitors each year.
Käpylä railway station
Käpylä or Kottby is a railway station in the Käpylä district of Helsinki, Finland. It is located between the stations of Pasila and Oulunkylä, along the main railroad track from Helsinki to Riihimäki, about 6 km north from the Helsinki Central railway station.
Oulunkylä railway station
Oulunkylä or Åggelby is a railway station in the Oulunkylä district of Helsinki, Finland. It is located between the stations of Käpylä and Pukinmäki, along the main railroad track from Helsinki to Riihimäki, about 7 km north from the Helsinki Central railway station. The station building in Oulunkylä is no longer in use for train traffic, and the station does not have ticket sales.
Kumpula
Kumpula is a verdant neighbourhood in Helsinki, bordered by Eastern Pasila to the west, Vallila to the south, Käpylä and Koskela to the north and Toukola and Arabianranta to the east. As of January 1, 2003, Kumpula had approximately 3,600 inhabitants. Kumpula is also home to the Kumpula Outdoor Swimming Pool, which was built for the 1952 Summer Olympics. Kumpula also has a lot of wooden single-family houses built between the wars and apartment buildings built midway through the 1980s.
Kumpula Outdoor Swimming Pool
The Kumpula Outdoor Swimming Pool is an outdoor swimming pool located in Kumpula, Helsinki. The swimming pool was built as a practice pool for the 1952 Summer Olympics and it is Finland’s third oldest outdoor swimming pool. In 2005, the swimming pool was restored to its original appearance while the saunas and dressing rooms were modernized at the same time.
Dynamicum
Dynamicum is the name of a building on the Kumpula Campus of the University of Helsinki that is shared by the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the Finnish Institute of Marine Research. Dynamicum is located in Kumpula, Helsinki. Construction on the building was completed in September 2005, at which point in time the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the Finnish Institute of Marine Research moved in.
Kumpula Allotment Garden
The Kumpula Allotment Garden, located at Kalervonkatu 1a in Kumpula and established in 1927, is the second oldest allotment garden in Helsinki, Finland. The garden has 268 allotments with an average size of 300 m. This area is culturally and historically valuable. From May 1 to September 15, the garden is open to the public from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. The allotments themselves, however, are the private property of the garden's members. The garden area is run by Kumpulan Siirtolapuutarhayhdistys r.
Käpylä
Käpylä is a neighbourhood of Helsinki with 7,600 inhabitants. Administratively speaking, Käpylä is a part of the Vanhakaupunki district. It is located between Kumpula, Oulunkylä and Koskela. Käpylä has a terminus for route-1 of the Helsinki tram network. Additionally, the Olympic Village built for the 1952 Summer Olympics and another village for the cancelled 1940 Summer Olympics are located in Käpylä.
Metsälä
Metsälä is a subdivision of Helsinki with about 1,000 inhabitants. It has predominantly small houses and it is situated between Maunula and Käpylä. Administratively speaking, Metsälä is a part of the Maunula district. The distance to Helsinki City Centre is about 6 kilometres from Metsälä. The primary housing type has been wooden single-family homes, and a lot of terraced houses have been in the area in the 1970s. Nowadays Metsälä has few unbuilt lots.
Koskela
Koskela, Forsby is a district in the city of Helsinki, Finland.
Helsinki Velodrome
The Helsinki Velodrome is an outdoor velodrome and football stadium in Helsinki, Finland. It was built in 1938–1940 for the 1940 Summer Olympics which were cancelled due to World War II. After the war, it was a venue of the 1952 Summer Olympics for the track cycling and field hockey events. The protected functionalist concrete building was designed by Hilding Ekelund. The track is 400 meters in length and is used for most national events. American football and lacrosse is played on the infield.
Kulttuuritalo
Kulttuuritalo (Finnish for The House of Culture) is a building in Alppila, Helsinki. The building was designed by Alvar Aalto, and is considered to be one of his main works.
Harju, Helsinki
Harju is a quarter of Helsinki, Finland. It is located northeast from the city centre, part of Alppiharju neighbourhood, between the quarters of Alppila, Torkkelinmäki, Linjat and neighbourhoods Sörnäinen and Vallila. Harju has a population of 7,237 (as of 1 January 2005) and an area of 0.27 km². Harju has the highest population density per km² in Finland, along with the neighboring Torkkelinmäki quarter. Apartments in Harju are usually very small, single-person flats.
Alppiharju
Alppiharju is a subdistrict of Helsinki, Finland. Alppiharju is divided into two neighborhoods Alppila and Harju, hence the name.
Itä-Pasila
Itä-Pasila, Östra Böle is a neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Alppila Upper Secondary School
Alppila Upper Secondary School is a school located in Helsinki, Finland. The school was founded in 1959. The current principal is Pirjo Majakangas from Helsinki.
Arcada University of Applied Sciences
Arcada University of Applied Sciences is a university of applied sciences in Helsinki, Finland. Arcada was established in 1996 as a merger of the Swedish Institute of Health Care Education (Sjukis), the Swedish Institute of Commercial Education (Lilla Hanken), the Institute of Technology (Verket) and the Folkhälsan Instutute of Social Education. It is owned and maintained by the Arcada Foundation. It offers education mostly in Swedish, but also in English.