Kotka Getting there & around

Getting there & away

There are regular express buses from Helsinki (€21.30, two hours), via Porvoo, Loviisa and Pyhtää. Buses run roughly every half-hour to Hamina (€5, 20 to 45 minutes), 26km to the east.

There are between four and six local trains a day to Kouvola (€7.40, 40 minutes) from where you can catch connecting trains to all major Finnish cities. The trains stop both at Kotka Station, to the northwest of the city centre, and at Kotkan Satama, at the main harbour and very much handier for the centre.