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HELSINKI – The Kaisaniemi metro station in will be renamed as University of Helsinki in January 2015.
The Finnish equivalents of the station are Helsingin yliopisto and the Swedish name Helsingfors universitet.
The name change was approved by the Helsinki City Council in April 2014.
The metro station serves a large number of passengers daily, many of them international visitors, teaching staff and students of the University of Helsinki.
For that reason it is highly important that the metro station closest to the University is easy to recognise by its name, according to a bulletin by the City of Helsinki.
Stepwise process
The name plates of the metro station will be changed stepwise from early January onwards, and station announcements, Helsinki Region Transport’s metro information boards and the forked metro station guides at stations and on metro trains will be changed at the same time.
Printed materials will be updated with the new station name over a period of time, and both names will be in use during the transition period.
The University of Helsinki will celebrate its 375th anniversary in 2015. The new station name is the City of Helsinki’s gift to the University, which is an important partner to the City.
