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S e r v i ce s
Student Cafeterias and Lunch Restaurants
On the Åbo campus there are five student
restaurants that serve lunches for 2.60 euros on
weekdays. These are:
.
Café Arken
, Arken building/Fabriksgatan 2
.
Café Fänriken
, ASA building/Fänriksgatan 3
.
Café Gadolinia (Gado)
, Gadolinia building/
Porthansgatan 3-5
.
Caf é Hanken
, Hanken bu i l d i ng/
Henriksgatan 7
.
Café Kåren
, Kåren/Tavastgatan 22
For more information about opening hours, lunch
menus etc., please see
.
There are also similar restaurants on the campus
of the University of Turku. In the ICT building
(Joukahainengatan 2-3), there is a student
restaurant called
Sodexo
and
Tottisalmi
is located
in the Student Health Care building (Kyrkovägen
13).
On the Vasa campus there are two student
restaurants that serve lunches for 2.40-2.60 euros
on weekdays. These are:
.
Res taurang Al exander
, Academi l l /
Strandgatan 2
.
Café Ann-Mari
, Academill/Strandgatan 2
For more information about opening hours, lunch
menus etc., please see
The lunches include a warm meal, sallad buffet,
bread and a beverage. To get the lunch for the
student price of 2.60 you have to present your
Finnish student card or a KELA meal subsidy card.
Without any of these cards you will have to pay
the full meal price. There is always a vegetarian
and/or a vegan option available.
9.6 Other Services
Both Åbo and Vasa offer most services that
you need in your daily life. If you need help
with finding a company/store offering the
service that you need, you can use
The website is in Finnish only but
is very easy to use. In the yellow field marked
"Yritykset" ('companies') you write the name of
the city you're interested in in the box marked
"Paikkakunta". In the other box, marked "Yrityksen
nimi tai hakusana", you write a search word in
Finnish (e.g. 'kahvila' for 'café') or the name of a
specific company you're looking for. Press Enter
and the site should give you the search results.
Shopping
There are a few things that may be good to
know when doing your shopping, both groceries
and other things. The words '
ale
' (short for
alennusmyynti
), '
tarjous
', '
erikoishinta
', '
erbjudande'
and '
rea
' (short for
realisation
), mean 'sale',
'special offer', 'discount' etc. The opening hours
of shops vary so check the opening hours of
your local food store. Most department stores
and grocery stores are open from 9.00/10.00 to
19.00/21.00 during weekdays, from 9.00/10.00
to 17.00/18.00 on Saturdays, and from12.00 to
18.00 on Sundays. Some small shops that sell
only groceries are allowed to stay open to 23.00
every day. Bookshops, clothes shops etc. are open
from 9.00/10.00 to 17.00/20.00 weekdays, from
9.00/10.00 to 14.00/18.00 on Saturdays and 12.00-
18.00 on Sundays.
Note! On public holidays (see list at the end of this
guide) all shops are closed and on the eve of a
public holiday they close at the same time as on
Saturdays. If a public holiday falls on a Saturday,
some shops are open on the following Sunday.
The following shops are grocery stores:
.
Sale
.
S-Market
.
Prisma (also department store)
.
K-Market
.
K-Extra
.
K-Supermarket
.
K-Citymarket (also department store)
.
Siwa
.
Valintatalo
.
Euromarket
.
Lidl
.
Minimani (also department store)
.
Halpa-Halli
The bigger shops are usually slightly cheaper
than the smaller ones, but the smaller ones are
also often open longer than the bigger ones.
To find your nearest grocery store, check these
webpages:
.
> Toimipaikat (Sale,
S-Market, Prisma)
.
