Siikajoki is a municipality in Western Oulu region, stretching from the Siikajoki church village (Siikajoen kirkonkylä) at the coast along Siikajoki river as far inland as Ruukki.
Understand
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Map of Siikajoki
Get in
[edit]By train
[edit]There's a train station in Ruukki on the western main Finnish north-south line, with trains coming from as far as Helsinki, Kemijärvi and Kolari.
By car
[edit]Highway 8 between Kokkola and Oulu goes through the municipality.
Get around
[edit]See
[edit]- 1 Siikajoki church (a bit north of Siikajoki village). Wooden grey-ish church from 1701, laid out like a cross. At the churchyard there's a memorial to the 1808 Battle of Siikajoki in the Finnish War (part of the Napoleonic Wars) where Swedish troops stopped the Russian advance.
Do
[edit]Buy
[edit]Eat
[edit]- 1 Merita Pizza Kebab, Ruukinkuja 6 (Ruukki village). Pizza and kebab place.
Drink
[edit]Sleep
[edit]- 1 Törmälän Tila, Toppilantie 20A (north of Siikajoki village), ☏ +358 50 599 2058, [email protected]. Bed and breakfast and cabins.