Flåm

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Flåm harbour and railway station

This article is about the town in Norway. For other things called flam, see Flam (disambiguation).

Flåm is a Norwegian village with some 500 inhabitants, at the inner end of the Aurlandsfjord, an arm of the Sognefjord. The town is located in the municipality of Aurland, in the province of Sogn og Fjordane. The name Flåm is derived from Flám, the plural dative form of the Old Norse flá, meaning "(small) plain between steep mountains".

The village of Flåm is a popular tourist destination and has been so since the late 19th century. It currently receives almost 450,000 visitors a year. Most come to enjoy the spectacular 20-kilometer Flåmsbana railway between Flåm and Myrdal, one of the steepest railway tracks at 1 in 18 (not counting rack railways) in the world. There are also a few spirals. ^[1]

The Rallarvegen road between Flåm and Finse is popular with bicycle tourists.

The harbour of Flåm receives some 131^[2] cruise ships per year, including RMS Queen Mary 2.

A former rail station building in Flåm now houses a museum dedicated to the Flåmsbana railway.

The E16 road between Oslo and Bergen runs through Flåm.