Hyvinkää
City of Hyvinkää (population 45,000) is small town in Southern Finland and conveniently located about 50 km from Finland's capital Helsinki. Hyvinkää is located along Helsinki-Tampere railroad. And highway 3 (E12) is passing very near. Location of Hyvinkää provides many opportunities to exercise in nature. The green and verdant city also offers various cultural experiences.
Understand
Hyvinkää’s Tourist Office is in city hall, address Kankurinkatu 4-6 building O and it's open Mon -Thu 8.00–16.00 Fri 8.00–15.00. The Tourist Office provides brochures and maps of Hyvinkää area and various destinations and cities across Finland. The services are free for all customers. You can find free brochures also from Prisma shopping center, Kauppakuja 2
History
Hyvinkää community was founded 1917 and it changed to town 1960. Before 1917 Hyvinkää was part of Nurmijärvi community.
Get in
By train
Hyvinkää is on the backbone railway from Helsinki northward to Tampere and farther, but you need to take or transfer to one of the suburban trains to or from Helsinki (R, H or T). See VR. A 45 min train ride from Helsinki, 1½–2 hr from Tampere.
By bus
There are several Matkahuolto lines operating from Helsinki to Hyvinkää. Most stop at the bus station, some late buses just pass Hyvinkää by Highway 3 (E12). The ride takes 1–1½ hr depending on whether it is direct or not. Buses between Helsinki and Tampere stop at highway 3, stop name in Matkahuolto schedule search is Hyvinkää liittymä 16.
By car
Hyvinkää’s centre is 2 km from highway 3 (E12). The south side of Hyvinkää borders road 25 between Porvoo and Hanko.
Get around
By bus
Hyvinkään liikenne operates 6 regular-schedule local bus lines. The ticket costs €2.50 for adults or €1.50 for children under the age of 12. The ticket allows one immediate change at the railway station, where all the buses depart from. Buses usually go every half an hour, at 15 and 45 from railway station and at 00 and 30 from the other end of the route. Matka.fi route planner includes information about local bus lines.
By bike
Hyvinkää is well known as a bicycling city. Grab a free cycling map from the Tourist information centre.
By taxi
- Menevä Hyvinkää. Smart phone app offers address based routing and calculates price according to them. Pricing told on the web.
- Lähitaksi, ☏ +358 100 7300 (extra charge: €1.92+€2.5/min+pvm). Traditionally the main taxi dispatch service in the capital region outside of Helsinki. Smartphone app: Taksini Daytime M–Sa €3.90+€1/1.45/km+0.90/min, nights and holidays €7.90+1.05/1.55/km+0.99/min; prebooking €7/14; the lower km and prebooking fees for 1–4 persons.
- Smartphone apps: Valopilkku, 02 Taksi
See
- 1 Finnish Railway Museum, Hyvinkäänkatu 9. Some thirty locomotives (ten steam driven, the oldest one from 1868) and many cars, including three cars of the Finnish train of the Russian emperor and the car of the president of Finland. Also exhibitions with other objects and photographs. There is a 1:8 railway on the museum premises. Founded already in 1898, moved here 1973–1974. The museum is in a historically significant place – the station and train yard for Hanko–Hyvinkää railway from early 1870s. You can get a special cachet on your letters and postcards if you mail them through the mailbox on the museum grounds. €3–8.
- Hyvinkää art museum, Hämeenkatu 3 D (2nd floor of Jussintori building). Mon closed, Tue–Thu 11:00–18:00, Fri–Sun 11:00–17:00. Art changes few times a year, most often local painters and sculptors. €4.
- Villa Arttu, Kankurinkatu 4–6 (Wanha Villatehdas). Daily 12:00–16:00. Child and Youth culture centre.
- Valvilla – textile museum, Kankurinkatu 4–6 (Wanha Villatehdas, yard side). Wed 12:00-15:00 or by appointment. The museum tells the story of the Valvilla textile plant, which was founded by Ossian Donner in 1892. It processed wool for almost 100 years and grew to one of the largest and most diverse textile plants in Finland. The plant has been closed for some time and the surrounding areas are being built as housing. €1.
- Hyvinkää - artist community, Vaiveronkatu 10. Tu–Su. Gallery with local art.
Do
The city is surrounded by nature and therefore it provides people who enjoy sports excellent opportunities to exercise for example in the Sveitsi nature park, swimming pool or ski centre. There are also many interesting sports associations in Hyvinkää, for example pesäpallo team Hyvinkään Tahko, playing in Superpesis, American football team Hyvinkää Falcons, ice hockey teams H.K.H., Hyvinkää Storm and Hyvinkää Bruins and football (soccer) team Hyvinkään Palloseura,
Buy
There is a newly built shopping center, Willa, that was opened in March 2012. It has more than one hundred shops.
Eat
There are many restaurants in the center of Hyvinkää, for example Medicin Man, Martina, Amarillo and so on. There are also many places where you can get Asian food.
Drink
- 1 Oluthuone Joutsen, Hämeenkatu 3, ☏ +358 10 7664599.
- 2 Ale Pub, Uudenmaankatu 4-6, ☏ +358 10 76 64346. 09:00-04:00.
Sleep
- Cumulus Hyvinkää, Hämeenkatu 2-4, ☏ +358 19 429 100. Just renewed small business hotel.
- Rantasipi Sveitsi, Härkävehmaankatu 4, ☏ +358 19 45 881. Quiet serene surroundings
Connect
Go next
| Routes through Hyvinkää |
| Vaasa ← Hämeenlinna ← | N  S |
→ Helsinki → END |