Hyvinkää

Hyvinkää’s Tourist Office is in city hall, address Kankurinkatu 4-6 building O and it's open Mon -Thu 8.00–16.00 Fri 8.00–15.00. 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 center, Kauppakuja 2

History

Hyvinkää community was founded 1917 and it changed to town 1960. Before 1917 Hyvinkää was part of Nurmijärvi community.

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. A 45 min train ride from Helsinki, 1½–2 hr from Tampere.

By bus

Timetables are online: winter and summer.
There are several lines 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.

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 from railway station and at 00 and 30 from the other end of the route.

By bike

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

• Finnish Railway Museum

  address: Hyvinkäänkatu 9
  Some thirty locomotives (ten steam driven, the oldest one from 1868) and many cars, including three cars of the Finnish train of the Russian emperor and the car of the president of Finland. Also exhibitions with other objects and photographs. There is a 1:8 railway on the museum premises. Founded already in 1898, moved here 1973–1974. The museum is in a historically significant place – the station and train yard for Hanko–Hyvinkää railway from early 1870s. You can get a special cachet on your letters and postcards if you mail them through the mailbox on the museum grounds.

• Hyvinkää art museum

  address: Hämeenkatu 3 D
  Art changes few times a year, most often local painters and sculptors.

• Villa Arttu

  address: Kankurinkatu 4–6
  Child and Youth culture centre.

• Valvilla – textile museum

  address: Kankurinkatu 4–6
  The museum tells the story of the Valvilla textile plant, which was founded by Ossian Donner in 1892. It processed wool for almost 100 years and grew to one of the largest and most diverse textile plants in Finland. The plant has been closed for some time and the surrounding areas are being built as housing.

• Hyvinkää - artist community

  address: Vaiveronkatu 10
  Gallery with local art.

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,

There is a newly built shopping center, Willa, that was opened in March 2012. It has more than one hundred shops.

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.

• Oluthuone Joutsen

  phone: +358 10 7664599
  address: Hämeenkatu 3

• Ale Pub

  phone: +358 10 76 64346
  address: Uudenmaankatu 4-6

• Cumulus Hyvinkää

  phone: +358 19 429 100
  address: Hämeenkatu 2-4
  Just renewed small business hotel.

• Rantasipi Sveitsi

  phone: +358 19 45 881
  address: Härkävehmaankatu 4
  Quiet serene surroundings