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Pitkämäki, Turku — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Pitkämäki is the one Turku district split among three wards, taking in the suburbs of Suikkila and Muhkuri plus an industrial area.
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Where to stay in Pitkämäki
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Beds are rare on this ground. Pitkämäki takes in an industrial area alongside the housing at Suikkila and Muhkuri, so most visitors book in the Turku city centre and come out only for a specific address. Anyone with business in the industrial area gains from a room on this side of Turku, since the district's three parts, the plants, Suikkila under Kuninkoja, and Muhkuri under Naantalintie, are counted as one place on the city map.
Few places to stay in Pitkämäki — most visitors book in Turku nearby.
About Pitkämäki
What are the main landmarks in Pitkämäki?
Look for a monument in Pitkämäki and nothing comes back. The district is read instead through its three parts: the industrial area held by the City Centre ward, the dense housing of Suikkila under Kuninkoja, and the low-built streets of Muhkuri under Naantalintie. Suikkila is the densest of them.
Work, not sightseeing, brings most people out here.
What is the history of Pitkämäki?
The ward lines cut straight through Pitkämäki. No other district in Turku is shared among three of them, and the split records three kinds of ground grown up under one name: plants, the dense flats of Suikkila, and the low houses of Muhkuri. Kuninkoja took one.
Naantalintie took another, while the City Centre ward kept the industrial part for itself.
Where is Pitkämäki?
Pitkämäki occupies the southwestern part of Turku, in Finland's Varsinais-Suomi region, with Suikkila, Muhkuri, and an industrial area inside it.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Pitkämäki?
Suikkila: guests with business at the Pitkämäki plants who want the Suikkila flats and their bus routes at hand.
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Updated September 2026