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