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Many small islands outside Espoo can be visited by boat in the summer. They are great for hiking and camping.
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A popular public beach in the Haukilahti district. There is a café serving food and drinks and a lifeguard on duty. Chosen as the best beach for windsurfing in the entire capital region by university students. About 400 metres to the east there is another public beach called the Toppelund Beach which has no services and no lifeguard. There is a beach for dogs between them.
Motorboat rental at Suino marina in Suvisaaristo.
"Mini-Tapiola" is a children's play park featuring a miniature version of the centre of Tapiola. Here children can have fun and familiarise themselves with the Tapiola district and basic traffic rules, while being safely overseen by their parents.
Tapiola Sinfonietta is an orchestra specializing in Viennese classical music, but also plays modern music. They perform regularly in the Tapiolasali concert hall, sometimes together with international guest soloists.
The Tapiola district in the east of Espoo was constructed as a garden city in the 1950s and 1960s. The district is a showcase of Finnish architecture from that period and many of the buildings look quite innovative and unusual even today.