Sörnäinen metro station (, ) is a station on 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 central

Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...

districts of

Sörnäinen Sörnäinen (; ''Sörkkä'' or ''Sörkka'' in Helsinki slang) is a Subdivisions of Helsinki#Neighbourhoods, neighbourhood in the city of Helsinki, Finland. Sörnäinen is located a little more than one kilometre north from the coastal centre of ...

and

Kallio Kallio (; ; literally " the rock") is a district and a neighbourhood in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, located on the eastern side of the Helsinki peninsula about one kilometre north from the city centre. It is one of the most densely pop ...

. Sörnäinen is the easternmost station on the system to be located underground. The station was opened on 1 September 1984 and was designed by

Jouko Kontio Jouko is a masculine Finnish given name and may refer to: *Jouko Ahola (born 1970), Finnish strongman, powerlifter and actor *Jouko Grip (born 1949), Finnish paralympic athlete * Jouko Halmekoski (born 1937), Finnish writer *Jouko Hassi (born 1959) ...

and Seppo Kilpiä. It is located 900 meters from Hakaniemi metro station, and 1.1 kilometers from

Kalasatama metro station Kalasatama metro station (, - "Fish Harbor") is a ground-level station on the Helsinki Metro, in the capital city of Finland. The station was opened on 1 January 2007, and it serves the eastern part of the central Helsinki district of Sörnäinen ...

. The station is situated at a depth of 25 meters below ground level and 3 meters below

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. File:Sörnäinen metro station escalators in Helsinki, Finland, 2007.jpg, Metro station escalators File:Sörnäisten metron sisäänkäynti.jpg, Station entrance, pre-facelift

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Helsinki Metro stations Sörnäinen Railway stations in Finland opened in 1984 {{Europe-metro-stub

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