Mellunmäki metro station (, ) is the ground-level terminus station on the M2 line of the
Helsinki Metro
The Helsinki Metro (, ) is a rapid transit system serving the Helsinki capital region, Finland. It is the world's most northern, the world's northernmost metro system. It was opened to the general public on 2 August 1982 after 27 years of planni ...
. It serves the district of
Mellunmäki
Mellunmäki () (Slang: ''Meltsi'') has been a quarter of eastern Helsinki, Finland since 1946.
Serious construction of Mellunmäki began in 1950 and the area was originally designed for 7,000 residents. Today in 2023 there are almost 9,000 peop ...
in
East Helsinki
East Helsinki (, ) is an area in Helsinki, Finland, usually thought to comprise the city's eastern and south-eastern major districts (, ), including the districts of Vartiokylä, Myllypuro, Mellunkylä, Vuosaari, Herttoniemi, Laajasalo a ...
.
The station was opened on 1 September 1989 and was designed by
architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...
bureau Toivo Karhunen Oy. It is located 1.6 kilometres east of
Kontula.
The Mellunmäki metro station is the
northernmost metro station in the world.
Pictures
File:Mellunmäki metro station bus terminal entrance April 2022.jpg, Entrance from the bus terminal
File:Mellunmäki metro station Korvantunturinpolku entrance April 2022.jpg, Entrance from Korvatunturinpolku
File:Mellunmäki metro station art April 2022.jpg, Art in the station
File:Mellunmäen metroaseman laituri.JPG, The station before renovations
References
External links
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Helsinki Metro stations
Railway stations in Finland opened in 1989