Very fast! 2nd car stopped - got a ride almost all the way to Helsinki!

Spot keeps being good and reliable. I turned down a ride to Lempäälä, then turned down a ride to some other place and then I got a ride all the way to Helsinki. I would have accepted a ride to Hämeenlinna.

I think it's a very good place to get to Helsinki. Many drivers going there. First people (and the only ones💀) we asked got us to Helsinki.

Tried other spots of Tampere trying to go to Helsinki but no luck after like 2 hours. Idk if it was luck but I just feel like this was the best spot since we got it almost instantly. Tampere road infrastructure is hellish so I think this might be one of the more coherent places to get south.

Waited for 1,5hours with a sign to Turku before giving up and taking an overpriced bus. Maybe most of them were going to helsinki but there was a lot of cars and it was a good place to stop. My experience about hitchhiking in finland is that eather you get lucky and find a ride in less than 15 minutes or you stand there for hours..

basically that’s the spot for the ferry to talinn i have tried to find a boat before with asking marinas but mostly in the time that i got it was not doable, 100%better with ferry it cost around 40 so a week of waiting will have cost me the same plus it’s around 20h to 1 day of sailing and u need to have good skills, soooooo you can try but ferry could be very useful if u got like 2 days in helsinki before talinn good luck 👍🏼

totally agree, perfect spot to helsinki from tampere lots of cars and plenty of space to stop place yourself before the bus station good luck then :) (kebab in the other way is really good btw)

3 minutes of waiting, got a ride to Helsinki

I had an interesting time standing here late in the evening. Has ton of space to stop but not the best visibility because there is a hill in front so it blocks a view but if you stand at the end of bus stop there should be enough time for driver to decide. But either way i got offer to pay 100 euros for two boys to take me to helsinki even tho they are going there and grind never stops for them. But then i laughed and declined. In 5 minutes arrived a romanian guy going back to romania from nordkapp. And he was planning to go on ferry to tallinn which i needed also in the morning so we agreed to sleep in one of parking spots and go together to the ferry. But then I eoke up and he wasnt there so I had to go by public transport because i already had a ticket :((( but it was fun journey. He was shouting more than talking re

I waited this only because I was ambitious and tried to get a straight ride to Helsinki so declined three offers to get to Jyvaskyla but took a fourth. And the lady took me even past the town to get started forward much easier. Good place slow traffic but a bit akward for drivers because they are turning but its fine there is plenty of space.

Normally a small village, Kaustinen balloons from 4k to over 50k during the week-long folk music festival. As a result, I had no trouble in finding a ride all the way tn Helsinki in under 5 minutes.

Hopeless spot. There are three lanes (two left ones head for Hämeenlinna/Helsinki; the extreme right is some local road). A lot of public buses stop here too, interfering with your hitchhiking. After about 1h20m I gave up.

Not exactly on my way (Lahtis) but i was little bit desperate to get ride outside of Helsinki before night starts so I can find place for camping

Very good spot going south from Tampere. Didn't feel difficult to get a ride. Sign: Hämeenlinna / Helsinki

Two people. Traffic lights and the bus stop make it pretty reasonable for cars. Not bad, sun was shining behind the cars so they had less problems seeing us. Maybe too much traffic (drivers thinking someone else will take us) and a lot of drivers propably on their way to home from work either in Helsinki or Vantaa. So would propably find a place further up the highway maybe in Vantaa if using it again.

A lot of traffic heading to all directions. If heading south towards Lahti/Helsinki, a lot of the traffic is local.

A big bus stop right after the intersection, good visibility and an old gas station next to it. Got a ride to Jämsä from a driver heading to Tampere while I was heading to Helsinki.

Amazing spot for going to Helsinki

Arguably the best place to leave Oulu region if you’re able to get to the bus stop from the city and heading towards Helsinki.

Towards Jyväskylä. Quite busy morning traffic, but most of the cars and virtually all the cars on the closer lane were heading to Helsinki. Important to have a clear sign visible to the cars on the further lane coming from ABC.