[9.7.] Added some links to bus and train timetables, see public transport.
Note that if you need a ride between the site and bus stop or railway station, the ride must be booked on Friday 14.7. at the latest! We cannot guarantee any rides that are not booked in advance, as we will probably have our hands full of work on site.
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.
Timetables for Inkoo railway station are available in pdf format. The timetable shows only departures, but each departure time to Helsinki is always also an arrival from Karjaa and vice versa.
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.
Here are some direct links to relevant bus timetables. Our stop Marielunds does not show on the bus companies' schedule lookup system, but the stop used here (Västankvarn th, a kilometer or so towards Karjaa) is a very close and more than accurate enough approximation. All the buses shown here do stop also at the correct Marielunds stop, though.
Helsinki, Kamppi bus terminal
- Marielunds bus stop, workdays
Helsinki, Kamppi bus terminal
- Marielunds bus stop, Saturdays
Helsinki, Kamppi bus terminal
- Marielunds bus stop, Sundays
Marielunds bus stop - Helsinki,
workdays
Marielunds bus stop - Helsinki,
Saturdays
Marielunds bus stop - Helsinki,
Sundays
The above timetables are in Finnish, but they should be pretty self-explanatory. 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
linja-autoasema = bus station
lähtö = departure
perillä = arrival
linja/vuoro = bus route
lähtöpäivä = departure date