Kallahdenniemi - an esker peninsula and underwater sandbank

Telkkä. 

Joutsenia Kallahdenniemellä syksyllä. 

Kallahdenharju vuodelta 1910. 

Other sights nearby

The best way to explore the beautiful archipelago of Helsinki is by kayak. Kayaking is easy, fun and suitable for everybody. Vuosaari Paddling Center provides you with the best quality equipment and a professional staff who helps you with all matters concerning the services.

Visit Vuosaari Paddling Center and book a guided kayak tour or Fatbike tour. Also rental equipment available.

1. Natura Viva - Vuosaari Paddling Center

Kallahdenniemi beach is a shallow and sandy beach, especially popular among families with children. Dressing room, shower, toilet, playground and kiosk. 

The City of Helsinki supervises the beach during the swimming season.

2. Kallahdenniemi beach

Café Villa Ullas is located in a small cottage in Ullas park, by the beautiful Kallahti recreational park. The café serves home made sweet and savoury snacks, the most popular being the cinnamon bun.

Café Villa Ullas is part of the Helsinki Vocational College, Stadin Ammattiopisto, which offers workshops for young people under 29 to try out various jobs. The workshops allow attendants to work on exercises and outside orders as well as to improve their vocational skills.

3. Café Villa Ullas

The soft and sandy beach lures visitors of all age to enjoy a summer day on on one of the city's most beloved recreational area.

There are cabins, toilets and a café at the beach.

The City of Helsinki supervises the beach during the swimming season.

4. Aurinkolahti beach

Cafe Kampela is located in Vuosaari at the Vuosaaren Urheilukalastajat boat harbour. The sunny terrace invites you to follow the harbour life and enjoy a cup of coffee or a bowl of salmon soup. Dogs are also welcome here.

5. Café Kampela

Uutela is the largest and most naturally diversified recreational area in East Helsinki. It includes rugged glaciated rock formations, coastal scenes bordered by flood meadows and alder trees, forest and marshland, old summer houses, and the historically important features and grazing lands of Skata Farm. The nature trail at Uutela consists of two walking tours of differing length forming a figure 8 pattern. There are two cooking shelters and a toilet for visitors to use.

6. Uutela Nature Trail

Vuotalo provides a wide range of cultural events, changing exhibitions in the gallery, and art education activities intended for children, young people, day care centres and schools.

The programme features films, matinees and a variety of concerts for both children and adults.

In the building also Vuosaari library and Pokkari café.

7. Vuotalo

Vuosaari Sports Hall, close to the metro station in Vuosaari, is an activity hall for many sports, eg. a gym, swimming, gymnastics and ball games. Lunch café.

8. Urheiluhallit Vuosaari - Vuosaari Sports Hall

The Vuosaari church, completed in 1980, stands on a wooded hillock by Satamasaarentie. Nature and its seasons become an integral part of the church hall through the large west-facing windows. According to a medieval tradition, the Gospel can also be read from pictures: the concrete relief on the altar wall shows episodes from the life of Jesus. Connected to the church is also the Marielund chapel, dedicated in 2006. The Vuosaari church and the extension work carried out in 2006 were designed by the architectural practice Pirkko and Arvi Ilonen.

9. Vuosaari Church

Vuosaari landfill hill is a man-made recreational area in north Vuosaari. The former dump and landfill area has become an open natural area where domestic plants grow naturally in meadowy and rocky conditions. Since its 60 metres in height, there's also a viewing point with a magnificent view over the surrounding area and eg. the Vuosaari harbour.

10. Vuosaaren täyttömäki - Vuosaari Landfill Hill

Vuosaari Golf is a straightforward high quality golf course where it is easy to pop in for a game. The 18-hole course is located near the sea, so you can get there via the waters as well. Vuosaari Golf is a Scottish-style Links course that offers new challenges for an experienced player and good basis for training for a beginner.Vuosaari Golf is open to guest players and the season continues well into the autumn on the sandfilled course. Vuosaari Golf hosts courses in golf and the large range has room for everyone to practice on.

11. Vuosaari Golf

The Hotel Rantapuisto main building was completed in the 1960's as a bank's training center in the middle of east Helsinki nature.

12. Hotel Rantapuisto

Vallisaari - untamed nature and history

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Kallahdenniemi esker is part of the national esker conservation programme and offers spectacular views of the kind that you cannot find anywhere else in Helsinki....