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Delve into Mekaanikonkatu
The district Mekaanikonkatu of in Helsinki (Uusimaa) is a district located in Finland a little north-east of Helsinki, the country's capital town.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 1°C / 34 °F
Morning Temperature | 3°C / 38 °F |
Evening Temperature | 2°C / 35 °F |
Night Temperature | -0°C / 32 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 2% |
Air Humidity | 89% |
Air Pressure | 977 hPa |
Wind Speed | Fresh Breeze with 16 km/h (10 mph) from North |
Cloud Conditions | Broken clouds, covering 80% of sky |
General Conditions | Rain and snow |
Friday, 22nd of November 2024
-1°C (31 °F)
-3°C (27 °F)
Light snow, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Saturday, 23rd of November 2024
1°C (34 °F)
-1°C (30 °F)
Sky is clear, gentle breeze, clear sky.
Sunday, 24th of November 2024
2°C (35 °F)
0°C (33 °F)
Sky is clear, gentle breeze, clear sky.
Hotels and Places to Stay
SCANDIC GRAND MARINA
Hotel Rantapuisto
Hellsten Helsinki Senate
Airport Hotel Pilotti
Hostel Suomenlinna
Eurohostel
Videos from this area
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Muuttolintuja Viikissä (valkoposkihanhia) Migratory birds
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Minecraft Haasteet Jakso 17 Joulu Speciaali
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Biking in Helsinki, Finland
It was beautiful and sunny day in Helsinki. I took my bike and camera, went to ride and here is part of the trip.
Finnish comprehensive school trip to a forest from seventies. Myllypuron Yläaste 70-luku.
Finnish comprehensive school trip to a forest from seventies. Shot at Beaulieu 4008 using Kodachrome 40 super 8 film. Digitized whit Panasonicd HDC-SD 100 camcorder. Filmed somewhere in middle ...
Futsal Ykkönen: Zenith - PJK 2.11.2013; maalikooste
Maalikooste ottelusta Zenith - PJK (2.11.2013 kello 15.00 @ Herttoniemenranta, Helsinki)
Blue1 Boeing 717 landing over Helsinki to Helsinki-Vantaa, Finland
Blue1 Boeing 717 approaching and landing to Helsinki-Vantaa (HEL), Finland. I have tagged some Helsinki city areas to the video. Plane goes over the East-Helsinki. Filmed to the west. Video...
[Helsinki Area by Skates] Strömsinlahti park
Strömsinlahti (Swedish: Strömsviken) is a bay in the Eastern Helsinki, located between to Roihuvuori, Marjaniemi and Tammisalo suburbs. These suburbs are known for somewhat wealthy people...
Marimekko Loistava 2011
Marimekko "Loistava". Designed by Harri Koskinen. Video created by Jeremiah Tesolin.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Arndt Pekurinen
Arndt Juho Pekurinen was a Finnish pacifist and conscientious objector. In 1926, Pekurinen repeatedly refused mandatory conscription, leading to his imprisonment between 1929 and 1931. He refused to either wear a uniform or take arms. While Pekurinen was deeply religious, his motives were not based on his faith. While his contemporaries suggested he was Communist, he was not interested in politics.
Herttoniemi
Herttoniemi is a neighbourhood and a suburb of Helsinki, the Finnish capital. It is located about 7 km east of the city centre and can be easily reached by metro in 10 minutes. It has an older northern suburb and a newer coastal suburb with ferry connections to the city centre. There once was a large harbour in Herttoniemi, but in the 1990s, this industrial harbour area was demolished and converted to a tightly populated residential area and marina.
Kulosaari metro station
Kulosaari or Brändö is a ground-level station on the Helsinki Metro. It serves the island district of Kulosaari in East Helsinki. The station was one of the first metro stations opened in Helsinki, on 1 June 1982, and was designed by Jaakko Ylinen and Jarmo Maunula. It is located 1.8 kilometres from Kalasatama metro station, and 1.4 kilometres from Herttoniemi metro station.
Herttoniemi metro station
Herttoniemi or Hertonäs is a ground-level station on the Helsinki Metro. It serves the district of Herttoniemi in East Helsinki. The station was one of the first metro stations opened in Helsinki, on 1 June 1982, and was designed by Jaakko Ylinen and Jarmo Maunula. It is located 1.4 kilometres from the Kulosaari metro station, and 1.4 kilometres from the Siilitie metro station.
Siilitie metro station
Siilitie or Igelkottsvägen is a ground-level bridge station on the Helsinki Metro. It serves the northern part of the district of Herttoniemi in East Helsinki. The station was one of the first metro stations opened in Helsinki, on 1 June 1982, and was designed by Jaakko Ylinen and Jarmo Maunula. It is located 1.3 kilometres from the Herttoniemi metro station, and 2.1 kilometres from the Itäkeskus metro station.
Itäkeskus metro station
Itäkeskus or Östra centrum is a ground-level station on the Helsinki Metro. It serves the Itäkeskus shopping centre and surrounding areas in East Helsinki. After the Itäkeskus station, there is a fork in the metro line: one branch continues north towards Mellunmäki, while another goes east towards Vuosaari. The Itäkeskus station was one of the first metro stations opened in Helsinki, on 1 June 1982, and was designed by Jaakko Ylinen and Jarmo Maunula.
Myllypuro metro station
Myllypuro or Kvarnbäcken is a ground-level station on the northern branch of the Helsinki Metro. It serves the district of Myllypuro in East Helsinki. The station was opened on 21 October 1986, designed by the architect bureau Toivo Karhunen Oy. It is located 1.9 kilometres from the Itäkeskus metro station, and 1.4 kilometres from the Kontula metro station.
Itis shopping centre
Itis (formerly Itäkeskus) is a shopping centre in the district of Itäkeskus in East Helsinki, Finland. It is the largest fully enclosed shopping centre in the Nordic countries, with a gross leasable area of 120,300 square metres containing nearly 300 different shops and 3000 parking spaces. Located nearby is also the Itäkeskus metro station. The shopping centre is divided into four sections: Pasaasi, Pikku-Bulevardi, Bulevardi, and Piazza.
Kulosaari
Kulosaari is an island and a suburb in Helsinki, Finland. It is also the 42nd neighbourhood of the city. Construction of villas on the island started in the beginning of the 20th century, and a bridge from Sörnäinen was opened in 1919. Kulosaari was an independent municipality since 1922 until 1946, when it was merged to Helsinki. Trams served the island from 1910 to 1951 – before the first bridge was completed, ferries were used to transport the trams.
Siilitie
Siilitie, literally "Hedgehog Road", is a road in the suburb of Herttoniemi in eastern Helsinki, Finland. The surrounding district and its metro station are also named Siilitie, according to the road. The metro station is one of the original stations of the Helsinki Metro. Most of the low-rise apartment blocks in Siilitie district were built in the 1950s, but a few taller buildings as well were erected in the 1990s.
Itäkeskus
Itäkeskus is a quarter in the neighbourhood of Vartiokylä (as of 1980s) in the eastern part of Helsinki. The district's main attraction is the largest covered-in shopping mall in the Nordic countries, Itis. The district has a station on the Helsinki Metro. The Itäkeskus swimming hall was built in 1993.
Tammisalo
Tammisalo is a wealthy neighbourhood (number 44) and an island in eastern part of Helsinki, Finland. The population of Tammisalo is approximately 2,200 and its area is 0.73 km². The nearest districts are Herttoniemi, Roihuvuori and Laajasalo. In the viking era the coastal waterway from Sweden to Arab world went between Tammisalo and the continent along Porolahti bay.
Roihuvuori
Roihuvuori (Swedish: Kasberget, or Roihis and Roihika) is a quarter, part of Herttoniemi neighbourhood in Helsinki, Finland. The population of Roihuvuori is approximately 8,000 and its area is 1.47 km². There is a church, two schools, shops and restaurants in Roihuvuori. There is also a water tower, Japanese style garden and playground Tuhkimo. Each street in Roihuvuori were named after fairy tales, with the exception being Roihuvuori's main street (Roihuvuorentie).
Viikki
Viikki is a neighbourhood of about 5,500 inhabitants in Helsinki, Finland. It is located at the bottom of Vanhankaupunginlahti bay, some 7–10 km from the city centre. The district hosts the Viikki Campus with four of the faculties of the University of Helsinki (biosciences, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and agriculture and forestry) as well as other university units such as research centres, science library and teacher training school. Viikki is known for its natural environment.
Kivikko
Kivikko is the name of a quarter of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Part of the Mellunkylä district, it was built during the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s. The quarter is located on the west side of Kontula, an important subregional centre and will have a population of 5000 once completed. Kivikko is especially favoured by families with children. 14% of the inhabitants are immigrants or have immigrant roots, which is more than in most of Helsinki.
Radio Sputnik
Radio Sputnik is a Finnish radio station with programming in the Russian language.
Laajasalo
Laajasalo is a group of islands that forms a neighbourhood in southern Helsinki, the capital of Finland. As of 2005, it had a population of 16,486. \t\t \t\t\tChurch in Laajasalo Helsinki. jpg \t\t\t Church in Laajasalo \t\t\t \t\t \t\t \t\t\tLaajasalo Oil Harbour. jpg \t\t\t Laajasalo Oil Harbour
Viikki Campus
The Viikki Campus is a campus area of the University of Helsinki in Finland, focusing on biological sciences. It comprises following units: Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry Faculty of Biosciences Faculty of Pharmacy Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Institute of Biotechnology Viikki Science Library Besides these units of the University of Helsinki, the campus area also hosts the Helsinki Science Park and the Finnish Food Safety Authority.
Marjaniemi
Marjaniemi is a seaside residential area in eastern Helsinki, Finland, with a population of approximately 2,000. Administratively it forms a quarter in the neighbourhood of Vartiokylä. Marjaniemi is a sought-after neighborhood, and the real estate prices rank among the highest in the city.
Playground Tuhkimo
Playground Tuhkimo (Leikkipuisto Tuhkimo in Finnish, Lekparken Askungen in Swedish) is a public, free of charge park at Roihuvuori district in Helsinki, Finland.
Länsi-Herttoniemi
Länsi-Herttoniemi, Västra Hertonäs is a southeastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Tullisaari
Tullisaari, Turholm is a southeastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Puotinharju
Puotinharju, Botbyhöjden is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Kurkimäki
Kurkimäki, Tranbacka is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Vartiosaari
Vartiosaari is a district of Helsinki, Finland.