Where to stay in Jätkäsaari
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Beds are growing here. Jätkäsaari is a built-from-scratch waterfront quarter on the southern edge of Helsinki, raised on the old cargo wharves where the Länsisatama ferries still dock, so its new blocks sit a short walk or tram ride from the city centre and neighbouring Kamppi. The museums cluster nearby.
The district suits you if you want a modern harbour base with the ferries, the Suomen valokuvataiteen museo and the open sea close at hand in this corner of southern Finland.
About Jätkäsaari
What are the main landmarks in Jätkäsaari?
Jätkäsaari is short on old monuments, a young district raised on the harbour ground of southern Helsinki. The museums lead it. The Suomen valokuvataiteen museo gathers Finnish photography near the quarter, the Hotelli- ja ravintolamuseo and the Teatterimuseo keep their trades close by, and the Romanikulttuurin museo records Roma culture, while the timber Omenapuutalo and the old Lepakko hall survive as the district's handful of named built landmarks beside the Länsisatama wharves.
What is the history of Jätkäsaari?
Jätkäsaari spent a century as the cargo harbour of Helsinki, a working spit of warehouses and rail tracks on the southern shore of the southern Finnish capital. Ships came and went. The Länsisatama traffic ran through it, and the old Lepakko hall stood among the depots before the docks were cleared.
When the freight port moved out the city laid a new quarter over the reclaimed ground, drawing in homes and the museums that line it, among them the Suomen valokuvataiteen museo. Jätkäsaari turned from harbour yard to a residential district of Helsinki beside Kamppi.
Where is Jätkäsaari?
Jätkäsaari sits on a reclaimed spit on the southern shore of Helsinki, its new blocks ringed by the sea and the Länsisatama wharves, with Kamppi and the city centre just inland.
Where Jätkäsaari sits
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