Helsinki
Capital of Finland
Airport
- There is a train station underground deep below airport with escaletors and elevators from inside airport building: both departures and arrivals. Line "I" goes to the city
- At departures there is a nice "Hotdog gourmet" restaurant where you can eat rich hotdogs. It is located in departures after 18 or 19 gate
Public transport
- Provider HSL
- Tickets can be bought by iOS/android app "HSL"
- There are zones A-E. Airport is in the zone C.
- There are several-day tickets obtained through the app
- The tickets do not need to be validated. Sometimes bus driver would require getting in through the front door and showing the app screen.
Restaurants
- Fisken pa Disken: pricy (fish soup 18eur (milk), catfish 32eur)
- Stone's bar. Near the main train station. In the building of central shopping center which is oppoosite to the central station. There is a raindeer burger for 21 eur. Beer for 10eur, drinks for 13 eur
- Cafe at Kiasma: delicious (and quite big) salads with salmon
- Sauna restaurant?
Bars and clubs
- Monkey rooftop bar. Great view. We got place on saturday afternoon without reservation. Live music DJ, all drinks 13eur. Good for randka).
Tosee
- Kiasma: modern & contemporary art
- HAM: smaller than Kiasma but more significant artists
- Oodi library: exceptional architecture, and exceptional idea on what to put in public library