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Yliskylä, Helsinki — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Yliskylä is the central district of the Laajasalo island in eastern Helsinki, gathered around Laajasalon kirkko.
About Yliskylä
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Yliskylä is a place to live rather than to lodge. The district forms the centre of Laajasalo, an island of apartment streets and parish life rather than hotels, so most visitors base themselves in central Helsinki and cross over to the eastern side. You get a quieter footing here, away from the downtown crowds.
Laajasalon kirkko marks the core. The link to Herttoniemi carries traffic back toward the mainland.
About Yliskylä
What are the main landmarks in Yliskylä?
One building defines the district. Laajasalon kirkko, the parish church serving the Laajasalo island, stands at the centre of Yliskylä and gives the surrounding apartment streets their fixed point. From its setting on the eastern side of Helsinki, the church looks across the island toward the water that separates Laajasalo from the mainland at Herttoniemi.
What is the history of Yliskylä?
The district grew as Helsinki reached its islands. Through the twentieth century the Laajasalo island filled in with housing, and Yliskylä took shape as its residential centre within the eastern reach known as Itä-Helsinki. Laajasalon kirkko anchored that parish growth.
The crossing from Herttoniemi tied the new streets back to the mainland, and the shoreline at Herttoniemenranta marked the wider eastern edge of the city.
Where is Yliskylä?
Yliskylä sits at the heart of the Laajasalo island on the eastern side of Helsinki, in southern Finland, a residential core reached from the mainland district of Herttoniemi to the north-west.
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Updated July 2026