Tuusula

Tuusula is a suburban municipality, around 30 km north of Helsinki, made up of urban areas and villages. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Lake Tuusula was a popular destination for Finnish painters and other artists, who had their summer cottages along the shores of the lake. Some of them have been turned into museums.
Tuusula is a rural municipality with a long history, and formerly included the towns of Kerava and Järvenpää. Since the 1960s, the population has grown significantly along with the Capital Region and the region around it. In the last decades, Tuusula has become popular with families moving out from Helsinki to single-family homes in the urban areas and countryside.

From Helsinki and Vantaa, follow freeway 45 to get to Hyrylä. The urban area of Jokela has a railway station with local trains from Helsinki and Riihimäki. To Hyrylä there are frequent buses from central Helsinki.

Get around by local bus, car, bike, or on foot.

• Anti-aircraft warfare museum

  address: Klaavolantie 2
  The premises of the Helsinki Air Defence Regiment until 2006 has been turned into a museum with guns and other air-defense equipment from WWI until modern times on display.

A few kilometres north, in present-day Järvenpää, you can visit Ainola, the long-time home of composer Jean Sibelius.

• Weird Antiques

  address: Hämeentie 18
  Sells (and displays) Americana from jukeboxes to signs and clothing. The shop and the owners are famous in Finland thanks to the reality show Vintage-valtakunta (Vintage realm).

• Hotelli Krapi

  phone: +358 9 274 841
  address: Rantatie 2

• Järvenpää
• Kerava
• Vantaa