Tram trippin'

We have 3-day unlimited train/ tram/ metro tickets for Helsinki, so on Sunday night, after sharing a large grocery story pastry for dinner, we decided to hop on a tram, ride it away from the city centre, and turn around when we (a) felt like it and/or (b) reached the end of the zones our tickets are valid for.

We hopped on a tram at the stop in front of Helsinki Central Station...

And rode it all the way to here before we decided to hop off...

When we started heading back, we had the tram pretty much to ourselves!

We had hopped off a number 9 (pale pink line) tram at the top black circle on the map below. Then we hopped on a number 2 (green line) tram heading in the opposite direction, which already confused me as the number 2 should not have been going in that direction according to my map.

Then we started going back through the stops we'd just passed through on the pale pink line, so we thought maybe we'd seen the number wrong on the tram or something. Then, before long, we were at the lower black circle marked below, so no longer on either the pale pink OR green lines! Huh?!

All was revealed when we got out at the next stop to switch to the number 4 (red line), the one our hostel is on (our stop is Vyökatu, in the bottom right corner). Apparently tram routes CHANGE sometimes (who knew! 😅), and I was using a map from 2022. This is the current one...

So, the moral of the story is that it pays to download public transport maps from the official website rather than from other sightseeing websites or wherever it was that I got mine from! 😁