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Vaasa (Swedish: Vasa) [1] is in Ostrobothnia, Finland.

Contents 1 Understand 2 Get in 2.1 By car 2.2 By train 2.3 By bus 2.4 By boat 3 Get around 4 See 5 Do 6 Buy 7 Eat 8 Drink 9 Sleep 10 Get out

Understand

Vaasa has been an important place whilst Finland was part of Sweden and was made capital of Finland once for a short period. Many people are Swedish-speaking here and the ties to Sweden are strong in the area.

Get in

By car

Main road 3 (also E12) from Helsinki through Tampere to Vaasa.

By train

All trains from Helsinki to Oulu and Rovaniemi via Tampere stop at Seinäjoki. From there you can take connection trains, which head to Vaasa. Three of these trains also go from Vaasa to Jyväskylä via Seinäjoki.

By bus

There are west coast bus connections from Oulu to Turku, which go through Vaasa. Busses associate Vaasa also to Tampere, Pori and Kokkola.

By boat

RG Line's ferries run between Vaasa and Holmsund, Sweden (near Umeå).

Get around

See

Do

• Old Vaasa is situated about 6km south east of the todays town featuring some ruins and a most bizarre manor house redone into a church.
• Raippaluodon Silta, Finland's longest bridge, can be reached when driving 10km north-west toward the island Raippaluoto, which is a part of the municipality of Mustasaari that surrounds Vaasa. Just a bit before the bridge is a lovely public beach where you can easily camp for a day or two.

Buy

Eat

Drink

Sleep

Vaasa has many hotels in which you can stay

Get out

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