Hyvinkää

Hyvinkää (population 47,000 in 2021) is a town in Southern Finland. It provides many opportunities to exercise in nature. The green and verdant city also offers various cultural experiences.

Understand


Hyvinkää’s Tourist Office is in city hall, address Kankurinkatu 4-6 building O. It is open M-Th 08:00–16:00 F 08:00–15:00. The Tourist Office provides brochures and maps of Hyvinkää area and various destinations and cities across Finland. The services are free for all customers. You can find free brochures also from Prisma shopping centre, Kauppakuja 2

History
Hyvinkää community was founded 1917 and it became a town in 1960. Before 1917 Hyvinkää was part of Nurmijärvi community.

Get in
Hyvinkää is about 50 km from Finland's capital Helsinki along the Helsinki–Tampere railway. Highway 3 (E12) between Helsinki and Vaasa passes near the centre.

By train
Hyvinkää is on the backbone railway from Helsinki northward to Tampere and farther, but you need to take or transfer to one of the suburban trains to or from Helsinki (R, H or T). See VR. It is a 45-min train ride from Helsinki, 1½–2 hr from Tampere.

By bus
There are several coaches operating from Helsinki to Hyvinkää. Most stop at the bus station, some late buses just pass Hyvinkää by Highway 3 (E12). The ride takes 1–1½ hr depending on whether it is direct or not. Some services between Helsinki and Tampere stop at highway 3, stop name in Matkahuolto schedule search is "Hyvinkää liittymä 16". See Matkahuolto.

By car
Hyvinkää’s centre is 2 km from highway 3 (E12). The south side of Hyvinkää borders road 25 between Porvoo and Hanko.

By bus
Hyvinkään liikenne operates 6 regular-schedule local bus lines. The ticket costs €2.50 for adults or €1.50 for children under the age of 12. The ticket allows one immediate change at the railway station, where all the buses depart from. Buses usually go every half an hour, at 15 and 45 minutes past from the railway station and at 00 and 30 minutes past from the other end of the route. Matkahuolto Reittiopas route planner includes information about local bus lines. Routes and Tickets mobile app has an address based routing and also a ticket purchase option directly from the app.

By bike
Hyvinkää is well known as a bicycling city. Grab a free cycling map from the tourist information centre.

By scooter
You can rent electric kick scooters for use in the centre from Finnish Swup.

By taxi

 * See Uusimaa for information about companies and fares

Do
The city is surrounded by nature and therefore it provides people who enjoy sports excellent opportunities to exercise for example in the Sveitsi nature park, swimming pool or ski centre. There are also many interesting sports associations in Hyvinkää, for example pesäpallo team Hyvinkään Tahko, playing in Superpesis, American football team Hyvinkää Falcons, ice hockey teams H.K.H., Hyvinkää Storm and Hyvinkää Bruins and football (soccer) team Hyvinkään Palloseura,

Buy


There is a shopping centre,, which was opened in 2012. It has more than a hundred shops.

Eat
There are many restaurants in the center of Hyvinkää, for example Medicin Man, Martina, Amarillo and so on. There are also many places where you can get Asian food.



Internet
Many businesses have Wi-Fi for customers, ask the staff for details.

For free Wi-Fi and internet terminals, check the.

Go next

 * Nurmijärvi
 * Riihimäki
 * Tuusula