Espoo Travel Guide

 Emile72 Says:  During winter, when the ice is thick enough there are lots of opportunities to enjoy the outdoors in Kivenlahti, Espoo. You can go on the sea and walk, skate, cross country ski, ice fishing and even people drive on the sea with cars... 

 nomadig Says:  WeeGee is a huge museum cluster located nearby Tapiola center, about ten kilometers from Helsinki downtown. The former printing house contains five museums, including Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA, a toy museum, a clock museum and a couple of others.The building is a sight... 

 Gili_S Says:  The Nuuksio National Park is amazing place to see if you want to enjoy the Finnish wilderness without the need to travel too far. Yes, it is partly in Espoo city and you can go there with the local bus service. 

 croatia2006 Says:  The buildings in the large yard area at Glims are in their original locations. I liked to go there when I was a child to see old houses and they often had some special events like puppet shows as well as demonstrations of working methods, musical performances,and... 

 croatia2006 Says:  Finland's national artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931) designed and built his studio and home at Tarvaspää near Helsinki in 1911-1913. Tarvaspää is now open to the public as the Gallen-Kallela Museum.The collections of the Gallen-Kallela Museum: paintings, drawings,... 

 croatia2006 Says:  April Jazz Espoo 25.04. - 01.05.2007 - It is organized already 20th time - Five days of international and Finnish jazz bands in different locations in Tapiola (restaurants, cultural building's concert halls and in "jazz tent")- Organizer: Espoo Big Band ry. 

 nomadig Says:  Restaurant Tempo is a favourite lunch joint for workers in Tapiola. Also women with small babies seem to like the restaurant, maybe due its excellent accessibility. Located on the third floor on Stockmann Tapiola, the restaurant has entrances both inside the department store... 

 Dr.Styranki Says:  Good place for lunch or dinner if you're sailing/boating/walking/cycling in Espoo. Serving good lunch, specialized in seafood and home-made style of food. Grilled goat cheese salad is famous and very delicious. 

 WanderingFinn Says:  The "Kahvila Glims"; in English simply "Coffeehouse Glims", is a very unique place. It is a round-the-year functioning cafe, still part of Espoo City Museum. Now talking about museum - don't even think about dusty books and ugly old buildings. This museum is mainly an open... 

 WanderingFinn Says:  Sello is a good place first of all because of its location. It is located at the train station of a place called "Leppävaara", which is one of the main stations by the Helsinki train line. You can walk in from the train to the mall.Also many buses pass Sello. For drivers... 

 Kimv Says:  Large shopping mall in Leppävaara district, at northeastern part of Espoo. There is more than 160 shops, including Prisma and Citymarket, two hypermarkets. There is a restaurants too, chinese, mexican, hamburger, subway etc. From Helsinki you could easily come by local... 

 Gili_S Says:  Stockmann are the best department stores in Finland. They have only few stores in Helsinki, Espoo, Tampere, Turku & Oulu. Oh, but they already expand and have stores also in Tallinn, St. Petersburg & Moscow.This one picture is from Tapiola in Espoo. 

 Kimv Says:  Here is poor and ugly places in Finland too. Everything is not clean and beautiful. If you want to see different Finland, take a bus and make trip to suburbs.Bus 150 from Helsinki will bring you here..