Helsinki Line Dancers – venue for the classes

Classes for Helsinki Line Dancers (beginners course and improver course 1) will be held from 2027 January to early April in Mellunmäki elementary school (Rukatunturintie 14, 00970 Helsinki).

Linki to the venue (link opens up a Google Maps -map in a new tab). Instructions on how to arrive to the school via car, public transportation or walking are after the school introduction.

In the picture above you can see the door you need to find. Find the I-door in the picture (in the right side of the building). Picture of the door below (the left door that looks like the wall).

In the satellite picture below, you can see more accurately where the L-door is.

The best way to arrive to the gymnasium after you’ve parked your car to parking lot area 1, 2 or 3 (will be explained later on) is to follow the route in the picture above. If you arrive via bus or park on Naulakalliontie, you can skip some of the route by entering the school area from the right side (see picture at the end about arriving via bus that has a red arrow in it). Unfortunately due to security reasons we cannot access the school itself, and we can only open the one door that leads to the gymnasium.

Upon arrival, ring either of the door bells in the pictures below, and someone will come and open the door for you.

The venue

We dance at Mellunmäki elementary school’s gymnasium. Space we have to use is about 240 square meters.

Do note that you cannot enter the gymnasium with your outdoor footwear or black-soled shoes that leave marks on the dance floor. Outdoor footwear is to be left in the locker room. To clean the markings on the floor is a billable job and we will be charged for it if we have made any markings, so let’s all make sure we keep the place clean, including the locker rooms.

The floor is a indoor sports floor, meant for indoor shoes, however you can bring your over the shoe placed sock with you if you want to be certain.

Locker rooms

When you arrive from the front door, on your left is the gymnasium (pictured above) where the classes are held. Take only the necessary items to the gymnasium so that they won’t take up space from the dancers. The school doors are locked during the classes, so no outsiders can access the locker rooms. To get to the locker rooms, upon entry to the school, turn RIGHT and go through this door (pictured below).

After you’ve gone through the door, walk the steps down (picture below).

After you’ve descended the stairs, walk to the end and you see a hallway open up to the left. On the left of the hallway are the locker rooms.

On the left side the first door on the left is the womens locker room (door 2, see number at the top right corner of the door, picture below), and a little further on the hallway on the left is the unisex-locker room (door 4, see number at the top right corner of the door, picture below).

Below is a picture of the womens locker room. In both locker rooms there is a shower and bathrooms. You can leave your belongings to the locker room during the classes. To get back to the gymnasium, just re-trace your steps to get up to the door you came from.

You should not bring into the gymnasium anything else except your possible valuables and drinking bottles so that they take as little space as possible from the gymnasium. Do remember to clean after yourself when you leave the locker room! The locker rooms should be left in the same state as they were when entered into.

After the improvers course 1 you should vacate the premises quickly, as the school’s alarm systems switch on little after the classes have ended. After the alarms have been activated any movement on the premises triggers the alarm – and creates us an invoice that we will naturally charge from whoever caused the alarm to be triggered.

Accessability

Via car:

When you arrive to the school via car, drive Naulakalliontie as long as you see either on your left (if you arrive via Naulakalliontie) or right (if you arrive via Vaarnatie) the sign below. Turn from the sign to the school grounds.

Hot tip: If you arrive via Kontula, don’t immediately turn to the right on these lights. Instead cross the crossing and then turn the first right (you should pass a bus station on your right before the turn). This will lead you to Naulakalliontie that you keep on driving straight until you end up at the school. If you turn right at the lights, you will eventually arrive at the school via Vaarnatie, but it takes a slight detour. Not a big one, but a detour still.

At the Mellunmäki elementary school and near it are parking lots where to leave your car if you know where to park. Below are various parking areas.

1. Most recommended parking lot. To access this parking lot, take the arrow number 1 from the picture below (that also show route to parking lot number 2 and the actual parking lot 3).

Choose the left road to access parking lot number 1.

Below are pictures of parking lot number 1. You can fit more cars to the parking lot when you either park in parking spaces or park front facing the fence, so please don’t park so that your side is facing the fence! You can fit about 15 cars at the parking lot. The arrow in the picture shows a door in the fence that you can open to get to the school yard without the need to circle back to parking lot 3.

Below the parking lot from a different angle. At the left side of the picture is the route you take with your car to access the parking lot area.

2. Parking lot area 2. Like on parking lot area 1, please park your car front facing the fence (or the wall), not so that your cars side is facing the fence (or wall) so that more people can park here. Rough estimate of parking spaces here puts it around 30 if everyone parks nicely. The arrow in the picture shows a door in the fence that you can open so that you can enter from parking lot area 1 to the school grounds without the need to circle back via parking lot area 3.

3. In the picture below you can see parking lot area number 3. There are 8-9 parking spaces here.

4. This one is road-side parking, so there is no specific picture for this and satellite image is placed here to remind you of the road. There is no parking limitations, so you can park your car on Naulakalliontie for as long as you like.

5. This 24-hour parking lot contains parking spaces for about 30 cars. Walking distance from here to the school is about 2 minutes.

6. We recommend this parking lot only if the other parking lots are full, but this IS an option. It is a parking lot for a daycare, and there are about 8 parking spots here. At the evening, the parking spots should be empty. Walking distance from here to the school is about 3 minutes.

Via public transport:

You can get to the school either by metro or bus, but both require some walking, as no public transportation stops near the school (except for bus 812, more about that in the end). The school is about 1,2 kilometers from the Mellunmäki metro station. Walking takes you 10-16 minutes, depending on your walking speed. The nearest buses are 97 and 841 and they stop at Itäväylä. In that case, you have about 750 meter walk and it takes you 6-10 minutes to arrive at the school, depending on your walking speed. More specific timetables and options you can find via HSL’s Reittiopas.

See here a short video on how to arrive to the Mellunmäki elementary school via walking from the Mellunmäki metrostation. The link opens up a YouTube -video that is about 2 minutes long.

Below is a picture of the route to take if you arrive to the school via bus that stops on Itäväylä.

The picture below shows you on the right the bus stop on which to get off on if you arrive from Itäkeskus via Itäväylä.

See here a YouTube -video on how to walk from the bus stop to the Mellunmäki elementary school. Close to the end of the video you can see how to easily access school grounds (through the hole in the fence and up the stairs, picture below) instead of circling around the same way as the cars need to. The video length is about 1minute 20 seconds.

Whether you arrive from the metro station or from Itäväylä, you’ll first walk up this road (picture below).

From there on, you’ll continue here… (below)

…eventually arriving here (picture below). On the left of the hill you see a grey concrete wall behind which the door to the gymnasium is (the I-door).

If you are tired of walking or you have time to travel longer, bus 812 (picture below) arrives just near the school.

The bus stop in question is on the other side of the school to Naulakalliontie -road. But from this bus stop, all you need to do is to walk down the road and in the picture below you can see the grey area on the left side of the building. That area contains the door to the gymnasium (the I-door).

Something else on your mind? Feel free to contact use via our contact info (we recommend e-mail). We’ll respond to your message as soon as we can.