Lappeenranta - Jyväskylä

It’s easy to breathe in Jyväskylä. This city of 140,000 residents offers you a perfect cross-section of the beautiful Finnish landscape; rolling hills, forests and lakes. You can visit Jyväskylä for leisure and rest or make your holiday more active. You have your choice of both urban environments and serene forests. Whichever option suits you better, Jyväskylä has the perfect means to delete any stress.

Active lifestyle

In Jyväskylä everything you need is within a 5 kilometer radius from the city center. You can rent a bicycle in order to travel from place to place quickly and get to know the scenic city along the way. Jyväskylä is located in the middle of the Lakeland of Finland, giving you a chance to enjoy many different activities in or around water. The city has many locations for canoeing or stand up paddling at the Jyväsjärvi and Tuomiojärvi lakes. If paddling is too calm and slow for you, the Kuokkala Bridge swing will raise your adrenaline levels up to the skies.

Water activities are not the only option for an active holiday, as Jyväskylä has over 450 indoor and outdoor areas for different kinds of exercise and over 200 sports and athletic clubs! No wonder that the adult population of Jyväskylä is extremely active and the percentage of people exercising regularly is very high; one third of the adults exercise at least 4-6 times a week. Go Jyväskylä!

In addition to the active and sporty lifestyle, or maybe because of it, people have energy to innovate. A culture of entrepreneurship is on the rise; compared to the population, the number of startup businesses in Jyväskylä is high and evergrowing. Students make up a large section of the Jyväskylä population, statistically every fourth person you run into at the streets is a student. Young and smart Jyväskylä people are not hard to find!

Stress-free vacation and a good mood all-round

Sports and nature cannot make up the whole itinerary, you also need to eat and drink. Great restaurants and terraces for the Summertime can be found at the Lutakko Harbour. The harbor is also a good place to just hang around, people-watch and see what the life in Jyväskylä looks like. Though most of the restaurants and nightly spectacles are found at the city center at Kauppakatu. 

In Jyväskylä, just like in the rest of the Central Finland, people are friendly. They are easy to approach due their smiles and talkativeness, and rumour has it that the best customer service in Finland can be found in Jyväskylä. Happy people, beautiful nature, and the number of opportunities for exercise and sports create an impeccable combination for a stress-free holiday and good atmosphere.