Kalasatama metro station

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Kalasatama metro station (Finnish Kalasataman metroasema / Swedish Metrostationen Fiskhamnen) is a future station on the Helsinki Metro. The station will be opened on 1 January 2007, and it will serve the eastern part of the central Helsinki district of Sörnäinen. The area is now mainly composed of offices, but new residential and commercial developments will be constructed in the area after the port facilities there move to the new Port of Vuosaari in 2008.

Unlike other stations on the Helsinki Metro, Kalasatama will be built on existing metro track, which makes construction more difficult. However, normal metro traffic is not affected by the construction work, which is currently in progress. Because the new platforms will be built on either side of the existing metro track, Kalasatama station will be one of only two stations on the Helsinki Metro to have separate platforms for both directions of travel (the other one is Itäkeskus metro station).

When opened, the station will only have one entrance, towards the west. An eastern entrance will be constructed together with the other new developments in the area starting in 2008.

Preceding station: Sörnäinen

Helsinki Metro stations

Following station: Kulosaari