Aurinkolahti, Helsinki — Area Guide & Where to Stay

Aurinkolahti keeps no grand monuments. Its draw is the water itself, the bay, the beach and the marina that give the quarter its name on the eastern Helsinki shore. The seafront is the sight here.

Apartment terraces, a promenade and small harbours line the inlet rather than museums or old churches, making this a place to walk by the Gulf of Finland rather than tour buildings. For the city's galleries and historic squares you ride west into central Helsinki, the heart of the Uusimaa capital. The sea is the attraction.

Aurinkolahti is one of the newer quarters of Helsinki. The seaside ground on the city's eastern edge was developed into a planned residential district built around its bay, part of the long spread of the capital along the Gulf of Finland in southern Finland. The water set the plan.

Apartment blocks, a beach and a marina were laid out together to face the sea rather than turn from it, giving Aurinkolahti a designed, modern character on this arm of the Baltic Sea within the wider Uusimaa region. The shore made the district.

On the eastern shore of Helsinki, in southern Finland, Aurinkolahti wraps around a sheltered bay on the Gulf of Finland, a modern seaside quarter of apartment terraces in the Uusimaa region.