Guidebook for Tapiola, Espoo and Helsinki

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Guidebook for Tapiola, Espoo and Helsinki

Food Scene

Our beloved local sushi place. Genuine article, super friendly staff. Just superb. http://www.sushiart.fi/
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LN-Sushi Art
6 Mäntyviita
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Our beloved local sushi place. Genuine article, super friendly staff. Just superb. http://www.sushiart.fi/
Stop by for lunch or coffee while strolling in Otsolahti park. Café Otsolahti is in the marina.
Cafe Otsolahti
9 Sateenkaari
Stop by for lunch or coffee while strolling in Otsolahti park. Café Otsolahti is in the marina.
Local brewery with foodie twist in Otaniemi. Just get offhe metro at Otaniemi and walk towards Tietotie direction. Fat Lizard is opposite metro station on the street.
Ravintola Fat Lizard
1 Tietotie
Local brewery with foodie twist in Otaniemi. Just get offhe metro at Otaniemi and walk towards Tietotie direction. Fat Lizard is opposite metro station on the street.
Local brewery with tarpoom in Otaniemi. https://www.olarinpanimo.fi/ https://www.facebook.com/olarinpanimo/photos/a.1500300490275088/2001674066804392?type=3&sfns=mo
Olarin Panimo
8 Metallimiehenkuja
Local brewery with tarpoom in Otaniemi. https://www.olarinpanimo.fi/ https://www.facebook.com/olarinpanimo/photos/a.1500300490275088/2001674066804392?type=3&sfns=mo
Free pub with insight to beer culture. https://www.gallowsbird.fi/
The Gallows Bird
5 Länsituuli
Free pub with insight to beer culture. https://www.gallowsbird.fi/
The freshest and biggest korvapuusti and munkki and coffee you can imagine. Located at level 1 at Ainoa shopping center.
Kaisan Cafe
4 Tapionaukio
The freshest and biggest korvapuusti and munkki and coffee you can imagine. Located at level 1 at Ainoa shopping center.
Vegan food, locally made by kilos. Eat at Anne’s or takeaway. Pick, weight your place and crunch. Located on the street level at Ainoa shopping center.
Anne's Vege
4 Tapionaukio
Vegan food, locally made by kilos. Eat at Anne’s or takeaway. Pick, weight your place and crunch. Located on the street level at Ainoa shopping center.
East mediterranean food, brunch style but all day! In front of Ainoa shopping center, just walk towards our place.
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Sandro Tapiola
5 Tuulikinsilta
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East mediterranean food, brunch style but all day! In front of Ainoa shopping center, just walk towards our place.
Veggie street food to die for.
Fafa's Ainoa
7 Tapionaukio
Veggie street food to die for.
Solid Indian soul food. Owner is very friendly. Also pizza with twist. This place is on our street.
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Tony's Corner
6 Mäntyviita
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Solid Indian soul food. Owner is very friendly. Also pizza with twist. This place is on our street.
Kilim is a Tapiola classic, some family has run this Turkish cuisine oasis here for decades, very popular lunch brunch style, be early. On our street, next to cinema.
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Kilim
2 Mäntyviita
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Kilim is a Tapiola classic, some family has run this Turkish cuisine oasis here for decades, very popular lunch brunch style, be early. On our street, next to cinema.
Up for a burger? This is the place. Located at Ainoa mall.
Funky Burger
4 Tapionaukio
Up for a burger? This is the place. Located at Ainoa mall.
quality ingredients, good wines and a relaxed athmosphere. The menu is built around fresh domestic ingredients and we co-operate also with small producers. In Finnish the word 'Kylä' has two distinct meanings. On the one hand it means 'a place you visit as a quest'. Kylä also means 'village', by which we refer to the village of Tapiola which has a significant place in our hearts. Ravintola Kylä Tapiontori 3, 02100 Espoo ​ Reservations: ravintola@tapiolankyla.fi Tel. +358 (0)10 231 0430 ​ Tue-Sat 16:00–23:00* (last orders to the kitchen –21.30) ​ Sundays and mondays we are closed
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Restaurant Kylä
3 Tapiontori
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quality ingredients, good wines and a relaxed athmosphere. The menu is built around fresh domestic ingredients and we co-operate also with small producers. In Finnish the word 'Kylä' has two distinct meanings. On the one hand it means 'a place you visit as a quest'. Kylä also means 'village', by which we refer to the village of Tapiola which has a significant place in our hearts. Ravintola Kylä Tapiontori 3, 02100 Espoo ​ Reservations: ravintola@tapiolankyla.fi Tel. +358 (0)10 231 0430 ​ Tue-Sat 16:00–23:00* (last orders to the kitchen –21.30) ​ Sundays and mondays we are closed
Good coffee, sandwiches and odd croisant in this little coffee located in the Harald Herlin learning center of Aalto Uni. Some oldtimers may know the place as main library of Otaniemi campus.
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Robert's Coffee
34 Lönnrotinkatu
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Good coffee, sandwiches and odd croisant in this little coffee located in the Harald Herlin learning center of Aalto Uni. Some oldtimers may know the place as main library of Otaniemi campus.
Ravintola Madison Oy
4 Tapionaukio
Ravintola Factory Keilaranta
6 Keilaranta
Vegan, hipster, live music, great spot at the heart of Helsinki, Aleksanterinkatu.
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Ihana Kahvila
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Vegan, hipster, live music, great spot at the heart of Helsinki, Aleksanterinkatu.
Legendary home made food lebanese style. Open on weekdays. Super nice owners.
Café Rouge
27a Yrjönkatu
Legendary home made food lebanese style. Open on weekdays. Super nice owners.
Super view at the hight of Accountor Tower at Keilaniemi next Metro station. Lunch and fine dining all week long.
Lucy in the Sky
1 Keilaniementie
Super view at the hight of Accountor Tower at Keilaniemi next Metro station. Lunch and fine dining all week long.

Shopping

If you are out to hunt books about Tapiola, this is the place to go. Two stores of little used books in English and in Finnish, comics and poetry. Look no further, here's everything need.
Antikvaarinen Kirjakauppa Tessi
4 Mäntyviita
If you are out to hunt books about Tapiola, this is the place to go. Two stores of little used books in English and in Finnish, comics and poetry. Look no further, here's everything need.
Shop for food and what ever you may need.
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AINOA
4 Länsituuli Västanvinden
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Shop for food and what ever you may need.
Buy beer from the brewery. https://fatlizard.beer/beer-shop/
Fat Lizard Brewing Company
3 Lämpömiehenkuja
Buy beer from the brewery. https://fatlizard.beer/beer-shop/
They sell a range of products, such as books, magazines, tobacco, ready meals, snacks, soft drinks and alcoholic drinks such as beer and cider, excluding wine and spirits. R-kioski shops also provide services such as the various "Veikkaus" games, prepaid mobile phone top-up vouchers, and fishing licences, as well as the sale of public transport tickets. Selected shops are also able to sell national rail and bus transport tickets.
R-Kioski Tapiola linja-autoasema
7 Länsituuli
They sell a range of products, such as books, magazines, tobacco, ready meals, snacks, soft drinks and alcoholic drinks such as beer and cider, excluding wine and spirits. R-kioski shops also provide services such as the various "Veikkaus" games, prepaid mobile phone top-up vouchers, and fishing licences, as well as the sale of public transport tickets. Selected shops are also able to sell national rail and bus transport tickets.
Sneaker heaven
Karhu Concept Store
22-24 Mannerheimintie
Sneaker heaven
High quality children’s second hand clothes and shoes, small design objects, second hand household stuff, lifestyle.
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Olkkari ja Kruunukirppu
12 Mariankatu
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High quality children’s second hand clothes and shoes, small design objects, second hand household stuff, lifestyle.
Converse sneaker heaven, rock’n rollock style modern clothes and boots by solivair, Dickies etc.
Garageland
19 Fredrikinkatu
Converse sneaker heaven, rock’n rollock style modern clothes and boots by solivair, Dickies etc.

Entertainment & Activities

At our street, The original Tapiola cinema with 3D and live opera or theatre from London! Pictures twice a week, on Wednesdays and during weekends starting Friday. Home of Espoo Cine film festival. http://bit.ly/1Ky
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Kino Tapiola
2 Mäntyviita
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At our street, The original Tapiola cinema with 3D and live opera or theatre from London! Pictures twice a week, on Wednesdays and during weekends starting Friday. Home of Espoo Cine film festival. http://bit.ly/1Ky
Wood architecture and excellent display on Finnish nature in Haltia! Please see details here: http://bit.ly/1D92LpQ.
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Haltia - The Finnish Nature Centre
84 Nuuksiontie
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Wood architecture and excellent display on Finnish nature in Haltia! Please see details here: http://bit.ly/1D92LpQ.
When the winter is cold enough, there's a skating rink on the central pool of Tapiola. You can rent the skates from the cafe. In the summer it is the Central Pool and you can rent peddleboats and sub boards.
Tapiolan jääpuutarha
Kirkkopolku
When the winter is cold enough, there's a skating rink on the central pool of Tapiola. You can rent the skates from the cafe. In the summer it is the Central Pool and you can rent peddleboats and sub boards.
Summer fun, kayaks, flyboarding and Wakeboarding just a kilometers away from nearest metro station.
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Laguuni
8 Keilalahdentie
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Summer fun, kayaks, flyboarding and Wakeboarding just a kilometers away from nearest metro station.
Reserve your place in advance, this is the purrrrrrrst place to hang around. Short walk from Kamppi metro station.
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Helkatti Cat Cafe
55 Fredrikinkatu
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Reserve your place in advance, this is the purrrrrrrst place to hang around. Short walk from Kamppi metro station.
Live popular music, the music Club of Helsinki.
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Tavastia
4 Urho Kekkosen katu
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Live popular music, the music Club of Helsinki.

Essentials

Currency exchange and Western Union money transfer. Open hours Mon - Fri:09-19 Sat:09-16 Sun:Closed
FOREX Bank
1 Kaivokatu
Currency exchange and Western Union money transfer. Open hours Mon - Fri:09-19 Sat:09-16 Sun:Closed
Health center. Call 112 in case of emergency to get ambulance.
Tapiolan terveysasema
2 Ahertajantie
Health center. Call 112 in case of emergency to get ambulance.

Getting Around

Tapiola metro station, to and from Helsinki city center in 20 minutes.
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Tapiolan metroasema station
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Tapiola metro station, to and from Helsinki city center in 20 minutes.
Helsinki main railway station, Your one stop shop for getting to metro when you arrive by train or by plane.
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Helsingin päärautatieasema
1 Kaivokatu
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Helsinki main railway station, Your one stop shop for getting to metro when you arrive by train or by plane.
Air port to Helsinki and Espoo.
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Helsinki Airport
1 Lentoasemantie
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Air port to Helsinki and Espoo.
Länsisatama, terminal to ferries to Tallinn. Take tram 6T from Helsinki Main Railway Station or 7 from Kamppi, Helsinki.
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Западная гавань
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Länsisatama, terminal to ferries to Tallinn. Take tram 6T from Helsinki Main Railway Station or 7 from Kamppi, Helsinki.
Katajanokka Terminal, Viking Line ferries to Stockholm.
Skatuddens Terminal station
Katajanokka Terminal, Viking Line ferries to Stockholm.
Ferry terminal for Tallink Silja Line ferries to Stockholm.
Olympia Terminal station
Ferry terminal for Tallink Silja Line ferries to Stockholm.
City bike station is located on our street, in front of the cinema, Kino Tapiola. City bikes are available from April to October. https://kaupunkipyorat.hsl.fi/en/helsinki/stations
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City Bikes
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City bike station is located on our street, in front of the cinema, Kino Tapiola. City bikes are available from April to October. https://kaupunkipyorat.hsl.fi/en/helsinki/stations

Arts & Culture

Espoo Museum of Modern Art. Cracking contemporary art in close reach.
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EMMA - Эспоо Музей современного искусства
5 Ahertajantie
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Espoo Museum of Modern Art. Cracking contemporary art in close reach.
Home of Alvar Aalto Family from 1936. No admission fee and has museum shop. This house was built by the Aalto family for the family and it was a home as well as studio for the great architect.
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Alvar Aalto's studio
20 Riihitie
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Home of Alvar Aalto Family from 1936. No admission fee and has museum shop. This house was built by the Aalto family for the family and it was a home as well as studio for the great architect.
Tapiola Culture Center, Home of music and theatre. You can find there public library with 3D printers and Lippupiste sells event tickets here. Espoo City service point is here as well. http://bit.ly/1KygSHv
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Espoon kulttuurikeskus
2 Kulttuuriaukio
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Tapiola Culture Center, Home of music and theatre. You can find there public library with 3D printers and Lippupiste sells event tickets here. Espoo City service point is here as well. http://bit.ly/1KygSHv
The Art Museum. The roof of the museum at street level in the internet yard is the living room of locals. Located in Kamppi, close to metro station.
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Amos Rex
22-24 Mannerheimintie
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The Art Museum. The roof of the museum at street level in the internet yard is the living room of locals. Located in Kamppi, close to metro station.
Great, Changing Art exhibitions in reasonable time.
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Kunsthalle Helsinki
3 Nervanderinkatu
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Great, Changing Art exhibitions in reasonable time.
you will find Museum shop for all WeeGeemuseums and French restaurant Lumiere here.
Выставочный центр ВиГи
5 Ahertajantie
you will find Museum shop for all WeeGeemuseums and French restaurant Lumiere here.
6000 watches from 17th century onwards and clever changing exhibitions. If you have no time, you’ll have time for this. All under some roof, this on is in WeeGee. . http://www.kellomuseo.fi/englanniksi.pdf
The Finnish Museum of Horology
3 Ahertajankuja
6000 watches from 17th century onwards and clever changing exhibitions. If you have no time, you’ll have time for this. All under some roof, this on is in WeeGee. . http://www.kellomuseo.fi/englanniksi.pdf
Solid frontrow to contemporary art at Classic Helsinki by Bulevardi. Changing exhibitions, the newer the better.
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Helsinki Contemporary
10 Bulevardi
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Solid frontrow to contemporary art at Classic Helsinki by Bulevardi. Changing exhibitions, the newer the better.
By or rent art directly from artists of Helsinki Artist Society. Located downstairs to the Library of Richardinkatu.
Taidelainaamo
3 Rikhardinkatu
By or rent art directly from artists of Helsinki Artist Society. Located downstairs to the Library of Richardinkatu.
The most beautiful public library of the world, blows your architecture mind. Community and open space, free of charge.
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Центральная библиотека Хельсинки Oodi
4 Töölönlahdenkatu
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The most beautiful public library of the world, blows your architecture mind. Community and open space, free of charge.

Sightseeing

Otaniemi campus of Aalto University. Buss 550 takes you there but from our place, it is just 1,2 km Pleasanton walk through oldest Tapiola.
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Aalto University
24 Otakaari
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Otaniemi campus of Aalto University. Buss 550 takes you there but from our place, it is just 1,2 km Pleasanton walk through oldest Tapiola.
Suomenlinna is a unique island with small picturesque village and historical fortress. Take a ferry with a bus ticket from the Market Square pier. Great cafes and restaurants for all four seasons of the year.
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Суоменлинна
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Suomenlinna is a unique island with small picturesque village and historical fortress. Take a ferry with a bus ticket from the Market Square pier. Great cafes and restaurants for all four seasons of the year.
Factory restaurant offer lunch on weekdays. Warm daily changing lunch menu with many choices and good salad bar. Ravintola Factory Keilaranta. Addressin: Keilaranta 6, 02150 Espoo. Phone number: 010 2053214. See in internet : https://g.co/kgs/bfoPzr Coffice offers Café experiences with special cafes, bakery goods and breakfast and salad lunch on weekdays in Keilaranta 1. https://www.sodexo.fi/coffice-keilaranta1
Keilaniemi
Factory restaurant offer lunch on weekdays. Warm daily changing lunch menu with many choices and good salad bar. Ravintola Factory Keilaranta. Addressin: Keilaranta 6, 02150 Espoo. Phone number: 010 2053214. See in internet : https://g.co/kgs/bfoPzr Coffice offers Café experiences with special cafes, bakery goods and breakfast and salad lunch on weekdays in Keilaranta 1. https://www.sodexo.fi/coffice-keilaranta1
Another hidden pearl of modern architecture, just 200 meters away. Tapiola Church, Kirkkopolku 6, Tapiola.
Tapiola Church
6 Kirkkopolku
Another hidden pearl of modern architecture, just 200 meters away. Tapiola Church, Kirkkopolku 6, Tapiola.
Really fun little museum that makes you think. Located in Kamppi, short walking distance from Kamppi metro station.
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Финский музей естественной истории
13 Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu
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Really fun little museum that makes you think. Located in Kamppi, short walking distance from Kamppi metro station.
Amazing architecture, trees inside and public library with most photo shoot options! Short walk from Helsinki main railway station.
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Центральная библиотека Хельсинки Oodi
4 Töölönlahdenkatu
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Amazing architecture, trees inside and public library with most photo shoot options! Short walk from Helsinki main railway station.
Pearl of Finnish architecture, hidden in student campus. Addressin: Jämeräntaival 8, Otaniemi
Otaniemi Chapel
8 Jämeräntaival
Pearl of Finnish architecture, hidden in student campus. Addressin: Jämeräntaival 8, Otaniemi
Contemporary exhibitions and collection displays.
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Finnish Museum of Photography
1 G Tallberginkatu
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Contemporary exhibitions and collection displays.
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Хельсинкский городской музей
16-18 Aleksanterinkatu
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