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Hakaniemi metro station

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Platforms
  
Island platform

Structure type
  
Underground

Address
  
00530 Helsinki, Finland

Owner
  
Helsinki City Transport

Tracks
  
2

Depth
  
23 m (75 ft)

Opened
  
1982

Platform
  
Island platform

Hakaniemi metro station

Owned by
  
Helsinki City Transport

Connections
  
Helsinki tram Line: 1, 1A, 3, 6, 6T, 7A, 7B, 9   Helsinki buses

Similar
  
Hakaniemi, Kalasatama metro station, Central railway station m, University of Helsinki metro stat, Helsinki Central railway st

Hakaniemi metro station helsinki


Hakaniemi (Finnish) or Hagnäs (Swedish) is a station on the Helsinki Metro. It serves the central Helsinki districts of Hakaniemi and Kallio.

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The station was among the first metro stations opened in Helsinki, on 1 June 1982, and was designed by Mirja Castrén, Juhani Jauhiainen, and Marja Nuuttila. It is located 0.9 kilometres from the Kaisaniemi metro station, and 0.9 kilometres from the Sörnäinen metro station. The station is situated at a depth of 23 metres below ground level (21m below sea level).

Hakaniemi metro station was seen in Aki Kaurismäki's film Calamari Union, although the route planned in the storyline (from Kallio to Eira) is impossible, because neither of those stations exist. Hakaniemi metro station was also featured in Bomfunk MC's music video for the hit single "Freestyler".

Hakaniemen metroaseman hissi lift at hakaniemi metro station helsinki


References

Hakaniemi metro station Wikipedia