Where to stay in Akalla — by area
The right area depends on your trip. Here's who each one suits.
Akalla centrum
- budget business stays near Kista
The blue line terminus is a straight ride to the centre, but rooms are limited; central beds sit on the line at Kungsholmen. Lodging is scarce in this area; reserve in advance.
Most visitors stay in Kungsholmen →
Akalla — common questions
What is the best area to stay in Akalla?
Akalla centrum: budget business stays near Kista.
About Akalla
What are the main landmarks in Akalla?
Landmarks are few and local. The preserved farmstead of Akalla by keeps a corner of the old countryside among the housing, and parish life centres on Husbykyrkan and the Syriac-rite De heliga martyrernas syrianska katolska kyrka. The fields run right to the doorstep.
Järvafältet's paths and reserve give Akalla its open western horizon.
What is the history of Akalla?
Akalla is a child of the nineteen-seventies. It rose in a few years as part of the Million Programme, the national drive to build a million new homes, laid out on former military land at Järvafältet with the metro arriving as the flats were finished. Cars went below, people above.
Families from many countries have since made it home.
Where is Akalla?
The district sits in north-western Stockholm, in eastern Sweden, on the open ground of Järvafältet beside the tech cluster of Kista.