#niittykumpu

Urheilupuisto metro station

Circular staircase

Tunnel

The first trip with Länsimetro, part 1. The Helsinki metro extension to Espoo, the so called Länsimetro (The Western Metro), was opened for public transportation on Saturday, November 18. During the first phase of Länsimetro the Espoo end station is in Matinkylä. We will start from that station and will visit also the next one from Matinkylä, Niittykumpu.

The first phase of the Länsimetro expands the route from Ruoholahti (in Helsinki) to Matinkylä in Espoo. The first part of this update described the first four stations on the Espoo side. The last two are Niittykumpu and Matinkylä. The special thing is they both are located in shopping malls: Niitty shopping mall (Niittykumpu) and Iso Omena (Matinkylä). The Matinkylä station is at the same time a rather big bus terminal.Pictures: the first five form Niittykumpu and the last five from Matinkylä.

A miniature Unité d'Habitation in Niittykumpu by architect Osmo Lappo, 1963.