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[[ImageFile:Jyväskylä-Finland_panorama1.JPG|left|thumb|View to the [[Jyväskylä]] Centrum from sight-tower of Harju.]]<map lat='62.23399603631972' lng='25.73864501953125' zoom='12' view='0' float='right' height='350' width='400'/>
'''Jyväskylä''' is a city located in Central [[Finland]], 147 km from [[Tampere]] and 270 km from [[Helsinki]]. There are so many students in Jyväskylä (a third of the total population), people call Jyväskylä "[[Athens]] of Finland". The city is easy to hitch in or out.
== Hitching Out ==
===South-west towards [[Tampere]], [[Turku]] (9/E63) or west towards [[Keuruu]] (23)===
There's a pretty good hh-spot just next to the university's campus called Mattilanniemi. '''Coming from the center:''' follow the street called '''Kauppakatu''' (the name changes into '''Seminaarinkatu''' and then to '''Alvar Aallon katu'''). Turn left to '''Kramsunkatu'''. There's a bridge for pedestrians over '''Rantaväylä''' to the university campus. Don't cross the bridge but go down the small hill to the "shoulder", the side of the road, of Rantaväylä. Walk a bit closer to the traffic lights.
===East toward [[Varkaus]], [[Kuopio]], South towards [[Heinola]], [[Lahti]], [[Helsinki]]===
This is a bit tricky but not impossible. '''Coming from the center:''' Cross the bridge that goes through the trainstation. There's a fair center (Messuhalli) on the other side of the train tracks and the road. Walk to the left after the bridge towards the road. Go over a small knee-height fence to the shoulder of the road. Walk on the side of the road a bit more to find a good hh-spot, where the cars have enough space to stop. '''If this doesn't work out''', walk down the road some more until you reach a pedestrian path on your right hand side. Follow it until it goes up in a bridge to cross the highway. Hitchhike before the bridge, because that's where the cars start speeding up.
==Free hotspots==
* [http://vakiopaine.net/ Baari Vakiopaine] Kauppakatu 6
* [http://www.sohwi.fi/ Bar/Restaurant Sohwi] Vaasankatu 21 ''(password: vodka)''
* [http://www.jazz-bar.com/ Poppari] Puistokatu 2-4 (Ask for password from bartender)
==Chargeable hotspots==
* [http://www.wippies.fi/map.phtml?l=en_US_WIPPIES Wippies Hotspots] (zoom out to find Jyväskylä) (Unofficial: http://www.ihminen.org/wippies/ )
==External links==
*[http://www.jkl.fi/lang/ City of Jyväskylä] - Official International version of the site
*[http://www.jyvasvillage.net.ms Jyväskylä Forum] - forum in English for foreigners in Jyväskylä
*[http://kartta.jkl.fi/ Map of Jyväskylä]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyväskylä Wikipedia: Jyväskylä]
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