Rovaniemi Bus Station

See timetables for Rovaniemi Bus Station from Matkahuolto website.

You can travel easily from other cities in Finland by bus to Rovaniemi Bus Station.

Rovaniemi Bus Station is located in the center of the city.

The Rovaniemi bus station, together with the Kemi and Sodankylä bus stations, forms a nationally significant built cultural environment known as the “Bus Stations of the Central Locations in Lapland.” The stations remain central buildings both functionally and in the urban landscape. The bus stations in Lapland’s central locations were rebuilt after the Lapland War. Rovaniemi had been destroyed in the war in the autumn of 1944, and Alvar Aalto designed a new town plan for the market town, placing the bus station near the railway station. In 1946, temporary barrack stations were opened in Lapland’s central localities, and in 1949, temporary bus stations were established. In 1956, the market town of Rovaniemi held an architectural competition for the bus station and the related traffic arrangements. Helsinki-based architects Kaarlo Leppänen, Niilo Pulkka, and Pekka Rajala won the competition with their proposal “La Strada.” They also designed the bus stations in Kemijärvi, Sodankylä, and Nurmijärvi.