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The Modern Helsinki Walking Tour
Explore the modern life of Helsinki and feel its energy. Discover a few well-known sights and gain an impressive perspective on the city as a living place, not just a museum. Join the tour and immerse yourself in their daily life.
Things to do The Modern Helsinki Walking Tour
Design, Architecture, arts, lifestyle, and local legends. We are the only operators making a walking tours on this route. There will be virtually no overlap with other tours. We start from Oodi Library and end at the Old Market Hall. Helsinki is divided into historical and modern centers. In the historical center, we conduct the 1st Helsinki Free tour focusing on the history of Helsinki and Finland. This Modern Helsinki Walking Tour shows you the rest. The Modern Helsinki Walking Tour focuses on the present and future of the development of our Northern smart city and every day of its people. Many less-known sites are visited, and you will gain an impressive insight into Helsinki as a living city rather than a museum. Highlights of the tour: -Awards winner architectural masterpieces: Chapel of Silence, Amos Rex, Oodi -The parliament - Let's see what the protest is about today. -Design Museum - Classics of the Finnish design -Iso-Roobertinkatu - The oasis of nightlife in Helsinki -The Plague Park - Beautiful and popular park with a grim past -Kasarmitori - Ministry of Defence - Nato and Finnish military traditions. -Old Market Square and the Helsinki coastline.
Included
Helsinki Central Library Oodi
Helsinki Biennial
Apartment Iso Roobertinkatu
Ministry of Defence
S-market Kasarmitori
Kamppi Chapel
Amos Rex
Live guide
Meeting point
The sharp corner of the Oodi Library
Reviews (46)
2025-01-09 11:45:29
“definitely recommend ”
It is first time in my life join free walking tour, everything is good, our tour guide is amazing, full of passion and energy! appreciate for all the information and details, I do think I know Helsinki:)
Pin Yun Lin (English)
2024-11-02 17:29:51
“Amazing tour”
We thoroughly enjoyed this tour of modern Helsinki. Ainoha is a fantastic tour guide and illustrates the contemporary developments and true nature of Fnland's capital with great enthusiasm and knowledge. We can highly recommend it!
Florian Ma. (English)
2024-11-01 12:10:13
“Modern Helsinki”
Unfortunately, i was the only person who showed up. Therefore, the tour has been cancelled. However, my tour guide was very helpfull and even gave me some ideas and quick infos about Helsinki ! PS: choose your time wisely, according to weather..
AYŞENUR KÜÇÜKÇAKIR (English)
2024-09-28 14:45:12
“Super interesting!”
Siri was very knowledgeable, professional and helpful guide! We learnt a lot about modern Helsinki and how people live in Finland and in the capital.
Emma Olofsson (English)
2024-09-15 17:57:22
“Good tour ”
Good tour
Jan (English)
2024-09-10 11:46:14
“Excelente recorrido y guia”
Fue un recorrido interesante para conocer la parte moderna de la ciudad. Excelente guia! Gracias
Kaira Joyas (Spanish)
2024-09-01 06:58:11
“Nice tour”
No spectaculous, but nevertheless imtersting to get some information about modern finnish liefe. I would have inspected a little bit more substance. Siri is a very nice an open-minded person.
Simone (English)
2024-08-26 07:11:24
“Lovely”
Useful 2 hour tour, competent Guide
Francesca (English)
2024-08-23 06:13:23
“Great tour!”
It was a great tour. I loved getting to know the more modern spots in the city. But a group of 27 people is a luttle to large in my opinion. We were moving quite slow unfortunately.
Conny K (English)
2024-08-20 14:38:58
“Discovering the modern city”
Siri was very competent and professional, bringing several different arguments, also from the daily life in Finland. Very interesting.
Saverio Mottana (English)
2024-08-20 12:07:38
“Modern Helsinki ”
Siri was very careful and professional
Rosaria Tuccillo (English)
2024-08-16 20:13:59
“Very insightful”
Highly recommend. The guide, Keito, was engaging, sharing interesting insights into the lives of Helsinkians, as well as the intelligent design of the city. A great introductory tour to Helsinki.
Daisy (English)
2024-08-13 17:14:48
“Absolutely recommanded”
Keito did a wonderfull tour. It was very informative. He turned toward all question; had a subtle humour, and told a lot of interesting stories. Thank you so much!
Maike Meyer-Oldenburg (English)
2024-08-12 21:16:34
“Great intro to Helsinki”
The sites visited were very well selected and we loved the guide's presentation of the history of the city.
M (English)
2024-08-09 12:00:54
“Informative and nice tour”
Our guide Siri was very nice, and I really loved this modern city perspective. Also the fact that it was a small group was really enjoyable. Definitely suggested.
Roberto Fiacchi (English)
2024-08-02 11:33:59
“Modern tour”
Kieto was a great tour guide! It was a fun and informative tour.
Sean Gannon (English)
2024-07-28 11:36:54
“Modern Helsinki Free Tour”
Very nice, different outlook of the city
Bharati Ugale (English)
2024-07-24 07:16:49
“modern tour”
we chose to book this tour as well because we had already done the classic and had seen all the main attractions. it was a nice and different experience to get a more complete view of the city.
Artemis Petroulaki (English)
2024-07-11 15:30:14
“Green Cap Tour ”
Female guide was patient, amicable, knowledgeable and informative. I thoroughly enjoyed the 2+ hours walk, which covered architecture and history of Helsinki .
kee kok goh (English)
2024-07-06 12:25:13
“Knowledgeable Tour: Time well spent”
Overall, it was a good experience to know about the modern history.
Saswat Patra (English)
2024-06-27 12:53:15
“Nicely Done”
I highly recommend this tour on Day 1 in Helsinki. There are so many unique structures and buildings around. It was helpful to get the lay of the land in addition to the great information about the city and its history. For example, there is a chapel in a wooden structure that was not obvious to me at first!
Shobhana Natarajan (English)
2024-06-21 17:10:49
“Great Helsinki walking tour with Kieto”
Kieto is friendly, knowledgeable and clear in his commentary. We got to see several well-known buildings from the outside and learnt a bit about Finnish history and culture.
Reviewer (English)
2024-06-09 17:03:19
“Impressive tour under difficult conditions ”
In spite of bad weather with heavy rain our guide took best care to her duties and we were impressed by her enthusiasm and professionalism. Appreciate very much informative tour and strongly reccomend.
Mario Savov (English)
2024-06-08 15:12:32
“Chill and insightful”
The tour was very pleasant with the right amount of walking and information about Helsinki and Finland's history.
Katia was cheerful and gave lots of nice tips about museums, places and other activities in the city.
L (English)
2024-05-13 09:06:09
“Alvaro is the best!”
Taking the tour with Álvaro is like taking a walk with friends. Super comfortable, interesting, close and with the contribution of very enriching information. A more alternative and equally fruitful tour. Highly recommended!
Bárbara Monllor (English)
2024-01-15 08:09:50
“Pésimo”
El mismo día cancelaron el tour. NO los recomiendo.
Julio Cantore (Spanish)
2023-12-12 07:23:34
“Cancelación mismo día ”
Fue cancelado esa misma mañana por enfermedad del guía.
Maria Rodríguez Bustos (Spanish)
2023-11-14 15:55:21
“Great tour”
This tour is a good opportunity to explore the modern part of Helsinki city center and to learn more about Finland.
Olga (English)
2023-11-13 07:07:45
“Visita Helsinki ”
Muy bien la guía. Excelentes explicaciones.
Miguel Gómez (Spanish)
2023-11-12 14:09:28
“Great tour with lots of interesting, useful and special infos!! ”
We had this tour with Kieto and had a great time. He is very welcoming, speaks English (as well as German & Finnish) und knows the city and its history & design very well.
Furthermore, he was super open for questions and gave us great recommendations for other activities in & around Helsinki.
We highly recommend this great tour - thank you
Tom Schlichenmaier (English)
2023-10-09 10:16:56
“Great walking tour”
It was a great walking tour that actually involved walking.. Our guide was very informative and outgoing. Definitely recommend!
Theodora Anastasatou (English)
2023-09-23 19:14:11
“Very interesting ”
I learnt a lot of things about the city and not just art, the guide was very interesting and I really enjoyed the tour
Pauline Bignon (English)
2023-09-23 18:39:25
“Fantastic tour guide keito ”
Barely a month old in the city, this was a perfect first step of introducing the feel and what Helainki has to offer. I am already exciting of the many places is there to see and learn about what makes this city a one of its kind. Could not have any better way introduction and welcoming.
Thanks Kieto or K!
Ismaila Barry (English)
2023-09-23 08:17:37
“Alvaro - very enthusiastic guide”
Only 4 of us gathered for the tour. ( Maybe because of the time - 1pm?) Alvaro was a very enthusiastic guide and his commentary was full of information and insights into modern Helsinki and its architecture. He also had plenty to explain about life in Finland. He answered all our questions and was keen that we should leave the tour appreciating modern Helsinki.
Fraser Simpson (English)
2023-09-18 16:35:37
“Modern slant”
Enjoyed this free walking tour of modern Helsinki. Good to see what is happening now plus Helsinki's vision to grow in the future with an increasing population. Would definitely recommend this.
Elaine Mcneela (English)
2023-09-10 18:26:20
“An Enjoyable Tour ”
I very much enjoyed the tour and the information provided. I was visiting Helsinki as part of a group tour, that also provided a tour of the city. While it was good, I enjoyed this tour more thanks to the enthusiasm of the guide who made me more interested in what he was showing us.
Eugene Jenneman (English)
2023-09-05 17:57:32
“Modern Helsinki ”
It was an excellent tour and our guide Kitto was very good.It is a great way to get to know a city and it’s history. Highly recommend the tour.
Lorna Inman (English)
2023-08-30 07:08:52
“great city orientation tour”
We found our tour to be a Wonderful "orientation" tour for helsinki, covering the central district really well. great way to orient yourself before you begin solo exploration :) good to know: more walking than the traditional green cap tour, but that's also why you get a better navigational framework... so choose your adventure! we did both and found they did not overlap- so recommend both green cap tours!
Maia (English)
2023-08-26 16:11:45
“It was interesting ”
A good mix of culture, venues, recommendations and design.
Teresa Hernandez (English)
2023-08-25 16:32:42
“Sustainable planning and life in the city”
Our guide kieto, was wonderful. Thanks
Etti Shani (English)
2023-08-20 16:40:27
“Fantastic tour of the modern Helsinki!!”
Very nice alternative tour!!
Kira Dimitriou (English)
2023-08-20 14:11:05
“Lovely tour through the modern part of the city”
We really appreciated the tour through the modern side of the city: it was extremely interesting to get to know how progressive Helsinky intends to be in the future and how history and politics influenced the way the city looks right now. Our guide was well-prepared and fluent in English - maybe sometimes too fast in the way he spoke but anyway he gave really great explanation.
Giulio (English)
2023-08-16 18:31:17
“One of the best free tour ever”
Alvaro, the guide, has been really informative and engaging throughout the tour, explaining clearly all the interesting aspects covered.
Plus, he has always been available and kind for any questions.
Outstanding English as well!
Giovanni (English)
2023-08-16 16:03:49
“Great tour”
Alvaro was a wonderful tour guide. Great, practical, and interesting tour. Great length. Would love to see some later afternoon or evening times offered.
Julia Kerbs (English)
2023-08-12 11:12:08
“Great tour, highly recommend!”
We really enjoyed the tour, one of the best we ever booked! Very informative, amazing storytelling and great atmosphere. Thank you for the experience :)
Thea (English)
2023-08-08 18:58:25
“muy interesante y dinamico”
El tour con Alvaro fue muy dinamico, interesante y didáctico! Un tour muy recomendable si se tiene varios dias para visitar Helsinki.
Thanks!!
Nagore (Spanish)