Note on place names: The southern coast of Finland
is partly bilingual and thus many places have both Finnish and Swedish
names. The order in which these names appear on the road signs (and many
maps) depends on the majority language of each community. In the
instructions below we've tried to give the names in the order they
are likely to appear, separated by a slash.
Sometimes the Finnish and Swedish names or name forms are very different
from each other, but they always appear together. For example
Ekenäs/Tammisaari is one place and Ingå/Inkoo (or
Inkoo/Ingå) is one place - recognising one form of a name will
suffice for navigating, but don't be confused by the fact that the order
of the names may change. For a Swedish speaker it is probably easiest
to navigate by the Swedish names whenever and wherever they exist.
Inkoo/Ingå railway station is just 3.5 kilometers off the site. Lifts from there to the site can be arranged. The commuter trains "numbered" Y, S and U all stop at this station. Those who come from east can hop on one of these trains at Helsinki railway station, those who arrive from Turku (or Hanko) direction can change trains at Karjaa/Karis.
On commuter trains the tickets can be bought onboard the train without any extra cost. On long distance trains it's cheaper to buy the ticket before the trip and you can buy it for the full distance, for example Turku-Inkoo. If you take a ferry to Turku and take the train from there via Karjaa/Karis to Inkoo/Ingå, inquire for ferry+train combination tickets when booking.
See the Finnish Railway Company's (VR) website for more information on timetables and ticket prices (has a handy search feature, too). Note that the summer timetables are only preliminary until about early May, but both the Turku trains and the commuter trains will be running each hour or even more often. Ferry travellers can even catch a train towards Helsinki (which will stop at Karjaa/Karis) right next to the ferry terminal in Turku (stop "Port of Turku"), as the so called "ferry trains" run every time a ferry arrives.
The closest bus stop is just 1.5 kilometers off the site, on the road 51 where the road to Björnvik branches off (see the close-up map). The stop is called Marielunds.
The relevant bus and train timetables
are now collected into a
separate pdf file.
The file is in Finnish, but it should be pretty self-explanatory.
A full translation will not be provided, but these couple of words
should help you get the meaning of most everything. And if there's
still something unclear, you can always ask us.
ma-pe, la, su = Mon-Fri, Sat, Sun
lähtö = departure
perillä = arrival
linja-autoterminaali = bus terminal
rautatieasema = railway station
linja/vuoro = bus route
juna = train or "train number"
Inkoon kirkonkylä (ei Kavalahden ohi) = Inkoo village
(these buses do NOT stop at the Marielunds bus stop)