One day in Finland: Turku to Helsinki (Europe’s best trains)

[@JanNyman.]

I would recommend visiting the Helsinki Zoo if you ever have time preferably during the summer months when you can take the ferry to the Island and it´s more pleasant outside.

[@anttikalpio4577]

You’re visiting Southern Finland when life really sucks here. Helsinki and Turku are my favorite cities in the summer, but December really sucks. It’s cold, wet, dark and depressing outside. Next time, please reach out to some of us locals. I’d be happy to show you around when wheater drives people inside.

[@ClairesFootsteps]

Haha I'm a bit strange and really love visiting Nordic countries in winter. But I would also like to visit in summer! Thankyou, yes I love meeting locals when I travel, just didn't have that much time on this trip :)

[@Levin.Hoffmann]

Finland is my favourite nordic country but their winter is so cold i can't deal with that haha 😅

[@marialovholm217]

New follower❤ i am half swedish and half finnish. I love your research about the places you go to! The viking lite ferrie is the newest one i beleive. Have a nice trip ❤

[@ClairesFootsteps]

Thankyou, lovely to have you here and I hope I'll see more of both Sweden and Finland in next year or two! Yes i love learning about the different places I go to, history is fascinating!

[@hauskalainen]

The Ikea cathedral? How dare you! It is beautiful outside but rather plain on the inside. Very Lutheran

[@ClairesFootsteps]

I was told it's called this by a Finnish tour guide 😅

[@Barflax]

You've 2 train trips in Sweden that you must take some time, 1st the train from Stockholm to Narvik, 2nd the "Inlandsbanan" from Mora to Gallivare or the other way, a 3 days trip, the 2nd part of this trip is to long, it best to split in 2 parts. You should do this trips in the summer so that you may see the midnight sun there above the Artic cirkle. Yup I've seen that in Narvik. I've traveling by train from Turku to Helsinki/Helsingfors but that was many years ago and that was on the old slow route.

[@ClairesFootsteps]

Thankyou for this, I've added both to my list - think I'm going to have to do another Nordic/ Lapland trip next year 😄 Wow that's super interesting that that used to be a night train, it barely took 2 hours now!

[@Barflax]

You missed that near Tallink-Silja terminal next doors to Viking terminal i'ts a train station that you could take the train to Helsinki/Helsingfors. Well as pointed out earlier maybe back to earlier now.

[@ClairesFootsteps]

Aha I didn't realise this, good to know! Although I enjoyed a walk through Turku too :)

[@TheJuupajoopa]

Buy Pilkkihanskat to keep your hands warm and able

[@mikkorenvall428]

In a fact, that is not a City Courthouse in Turku, it's a former University main building and today used by Court of Appeal. City Court in Turku is much more modern building. And behind the Christmas markets in Helsinki you see the main building of Helsinki University, better known as Aalto University.

[@ClairesFootsteps]

Oh understood! I just got my info from a quick look on Google

[@holoholopainen1627]

Have You ever heard of music called SANDSTORM - by DARUDE ! That IS The most watched Helsinki video - and You surely do regonize - The White Church by The Senate Square

[@ClairesFootsteps]

Oh I didn't realise that was Helsinki, just watched again and yes can see it clearly! Used to listen to that song all the time 😆

[@holoholopainen1627]

@ClairesFootsteps NICE - Yes IT IS Helsinki ! Have You ever taken The Helsinki METRO ? If not - You May see The brand New METRO - on KZbin - as BOMFUNK MCs - FREESTYLER ! After watching IT - everybody do know - How Do The RUN IT !

[@SK-nw4ig]

Helsinki chatedral looks plain? Not to a Finnish eye. Also never heard it been called ikea anything. I love how you walk through the city of Turku and there is no one there :D

[@ClairesFootsteps]

I was told this by a Finnish tour guide last year 😅 haha yeah Turku was quiet, it was a weekday + quite cold out!

[@HezuFoto]

FYI, that rail maintenance in Turku is now over and since last sunday (Dec 15th) trains to/from Helsinki again go past Kupittaa station and select services the terminus is Turku harbour. However, Turku central railway station is still under renovation and its functions have been moved nearby event centre Logomo (a former rail engine/car workshop). And one note on the universities in Turku: after the great fire of Turku, the old Acedemy of Turku was moved to Helsinki to became the modern University of Helsinki, the current universities in Turku were then established only later, the Swedish-language Åbo Akademi in 1918 and Finnish-language University of Turku in 1920.

[@MetsisJ]

Yes, because of construction of new rails the trains to the Helsinki direction departed a good time from the Kupittaa station which is located in the east central part of the town, not in the outskirts. However as @HezuFoto points out, the work is now done and trains to both the Helsinki and Tampere directions depart by the pedestrian bridge next to the event arena Logomo. The old main railway station is no longer used, and a new one is to be built close to that pedestrian bridge, across the event arena. There is a train connection directly from the harbour to Logomo. Extending your trip to begin from the harbour instead of Logomo costs you probably less than 1€ (the railway company uses so called dynamic pricing, so prices vary). However, the fare just from the harbour to Logomo with a train is higher than with a local bus.

[@IbBromberg-sg5bn]

There are a train from the ferry terminal. No need to walk cross town.

[@IbBromberg-sg5bn]

And it is not a soona. It is sAuna

[@tanjanikola9489]

Global warming definitely has an impact on the amount of snow - in the south we may get very little (too warm), or absolutely loads (warm sea temperatures create more moisture in the clouds), and the temperatures can fluctuate above and below zero, creating chaos (first we get snow, then rain, so it melts a little, and then it freezes over to ice, and finally a bit more rain to make the ice super dangerous to walk on). I prefer proper winters!

[@distinctions5714]

In past newspaper 8:56 s from 1850 found news 33 time no snow in Finland winter. Its nothing to do with climate warmin.

[@SK-nw4ig]

@@distinctions5714 Yes, it is the coastal climate tha does that. Sometimes snow, sometimes not.