Tour Operators
Sightseeing tours by bus, of the city and surrounding points of interest, are available year round. Tours from an hour to all day are available and the buses make pickups at your hotel. During the summer months, a waterbus tour of the Helsinki shoreline operates about once an hour from the Market Square from 10am on. There are evening cruises, commentary in several languages and arrangements can be made for group tours. Several of the tour companies are:
- Ageba Travel Agency, phone 669 193
- Suomen Turistiauto Oy, phone 5885 166
- Helsinki Tourist Association, phone 601 966 (offers guided city walks in addition to regular bus tours)
Getting There
Air: Finnair and Delta have daily flights leaving from JFK Airport in New York at 5:55pm. Several airlines offer flights into Helsinki from European cities.
Rail: Intercity service to Helsinki is limited by its waterbound location. Among major cities, only St Petersburg and Moscow offer direct land-only train service to the Finnish capital.
Ship: Helsinki can be reached via an overnight boat from Stockholm on the Silja and Viking ferry lines. A much shorter ferry ride (about 4 hours) will get you there from Tallinn (Estonia).
