Three days on foot: the Old Town from Toompea to the Town Hall Square and up two towers, Kalamaja's wooden streets and the Seaplane Harbour, then Kadriorg's palace, Kumu and the sea road to Pirita. One tram ride a day and a ferry to Helsinki for a fourth.
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Checked October 10, 2026. That’s the day we last confirmed the hours, prices and closed days.
June to August has light until nearly midnight and every terrace open. May and September are quieter and still bright. December is the Christmas market on the Town Hall Square with about six hours of daylight; January and February are cold, icy underfoot and cheap.
Inside the Old Town for the lanes after dark, or just outside it in the Rotermann quarter for new hotels five minutes from the square. Kalamaja for cafés, wooden houses and the sea; Kadriorg if you want the park and quiet.
Public transport is free only for registered Tallinn residents; visitors pay. A one-hour QR ticket is €2 from pilet.ee or the Pilet app, or tap a contactless bank card on the orange validator and it charges the same. Longer stays load an Ühiskaart from an R-Kiosk: 24 hours €5.50, 72 hours €9, 120 hours €11. Tap once when you board, never on the way out. Trams 1 and 3 reach Kadriorg, 1 and 2 reach Kalamaja; Bolt is the taxi app and a ride across town is under €10.
Toompea · 45 min
Climb the Short Leg (Lühike jalg) from the lower town to the onion domes facing Toompea Castle, where parliament sits. The cathedral is free, open from about 8 a.m., and asks for no photographs inside.
Toompea · 45 min
Kohtuotsa looks over the red roofs to the port; Patkuli, two minutes round the corner, frames the wall towers and St Olaf's spire. Both are empty before 10 a.m. and full of tour groups after.
Toompea · 30 min
The oldest church on the hill, lined with the painted coats of arms of Baltic German families. Walk the nave; the tower climb is a small extra charge when it is open in summer.
Old Town · 60 min
Pikk jalg is the cobbled ramp the carts used. At the bottom, the Town Hall Square and the Raeapteek, a pharmacy on this corner since 1422 with a free room of old remedies behind the counter; it keeps shop hours and shuts on Sunday.
Old Town · 45 min
In the Town Hall arcade: elk soup ladled into a clay bowl, pies and pickles by candlelight, a few euros each and eaten standing. For a proper table, Rataskaevu 16 two streets away does lunch.
Old Town · 45 min
Enter on Müürivahe. The covered walkway runs about 200 meters along the top of the wall to the next two towers; the ticket is a few euros and the booth has taken cash only, so carry some.
around €4
Old Town · 60 min
Open April 1 to October 31, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., last entry 5:30 p.m. It is 258 steps up a narrow stone spiral to a ledge 60 meters above the roofs; in winter walk Pikk street to Fat Margaret instead.
€10
City centre · 75 min
The listening post on the 23rd floor of the Intourist hotel, left as the agents abandoned it in 1991. Guided tour only, one hour; reserve a slot at viru.ee before you arrive, and note there are no tours on Mondays from October to April.
€20
Old Town · 90 min
An Old Town restaurant locals still book: braised elk, Baltic herring and the chocolate cake everyone orders. Reserve a day or two ahead, or try its smaller sister Väike Rataskaevu 16 next door.
Kalamaja · 60 min
The market behind the station opens at 9 a.m., Sundays too. Fish and smoked meat downstairs, street food counters upstairs; have coffee and a cardamom bun from the bakery stall before the halls fill.
Telliskivi · 120 min
Cross the footbridge over the tracks into the old factory yards: design shops, murals and the Depoo food trucks. Fotografiska opens at 9 a.m. on weekdays and 10 on weekends, with tickets priced by time of day and under-16s free.
€14 to €17
Kalamaja · 45 min
Walk north on Valgevase and Vabriku past two-story timber houses from the 1900s, painted green, ochre and gray, with the Kalamaja cemetery park in the middle. Twenty minutes brings you out at the sea.
Noblessner · 75 min
Inside the old submarine yard: the brewery's own beers and Texas-style smoked meat at long tables. Lore Bistroo on the quay next door is the sit-down choice with the harbor view.
Kalamaja · 120 min
Three concrete hangars from 1916 with a submarine you walk through, a Short 184 seaplane and the icebreaker Suur Tõll outside. Open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily May to September, and Tuesday to Sunday to 6 p.m. October to April; allow two hours.
€22
Kalaranna · 30 min
The sea fortress that became a Soviet prison is closed for renovation and reopens as a museum in 2027, so for now you see its curved wall from the Kalaranna promenade. Walk it east along the water.
Harbour · 45 min
The 1980 Olympic concert hall is a derelict concrete terrace stepping down to the bay. Climb the outside stairs for the sunset over the ferries if the fences allow; the building is waiting on its own renovation.
Telliskivi · 90 min
Tram 1 or 2 two stops back to Telliskivi. A big converted factory hall with a long menu, cheap for what it is and open late, no reservation needed for two; finish with a drink at Sveta Baar across the yard.
Kadriorg · 45 min
Tram 1 or 3 to the Kadriorg stop. Walk the Swan Pond and the Japanese garden before the palace opens at 10 a.m.; the flower garden behind the palace is the one in the photographs.
Kadriorg · 60 min
Peter the Great's baroque palace, now the Kadriorg Art Museum of Dutch, Italian and Russian old masters; the main hall is worth the ticket. Open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesdays to 8 p.m., closed Monday.
€15
Kadriorg · 120 min
Five minutes up the hill, cut into the limestone bank: Estonian art from the 18th century through the Soviet decades to now, and the building itself. Open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursdays to 8 p.m., closed Monday; the last Wednesday of each month is €3.
€16
Kadriorg · 60 min
A neighborhood cafe and organic shop on Köleri street, ten minutes' walk from Kumu: soups, a daily plate, good cake. Katharinenthal by the park gate is the alternative, with a terrace.
Pirita tee · 60 min
Walk down through the park to the sea. The bronze angel marks a warship lost in 1893, and the promenade runs along the bay toward Pirita with the Old Town spires behind you; bus 34A or 38 from Russalka reaches the TV Tower in about 15 minutes.
Pirita · 90 min
The 1980 tower has an observation deck at 170 meters with glass floor panels, open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; €18 online, or €10 for the evening ticket after 5 p.m. The Estonian Open Air Museum at Rocca al Mare is the alternative, closed Mondays in winter.
€18
Pirita · 120 min
A glass pavilion on the shore road with the Old Town lit across the bay. The bistro side takes reservations a few days out and costs far less than the chef's hall; order the Baltic fish, and a Bolt back to town is about ten minutes.
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From Tallinn Airport (TLL), tram 4 or tram 2 leaves from the city end of the terminal and reaches the center (Hobujaama, by the Viru Hotel) in about 20 minutes for €2; buy a QR ticket at the machine or tap a bank card on board. A Bolt to the Old Town is about ten minutes and under €15. From Helsinki, Tallink (about two hours, six a day, from around €29), Viking Line (around two and a half hours) and Eckerö Line (around three and a half) all dock a 15-minute walk from the Old Town.
About €70 to €110 a day per person. Museum tickets are €15 to €22 each, a market or café lunch €10 to €15, dinner with a drink €30 to €45, and a 24-hour transport ticket €5.50. Rataskaevu 16 and NOA's bistro are at the top of that range.
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Yes. The Old Town is a day, Kalamaja and the sea a second, Kadriorg and Pirita a third. A fourth day adds Helsinki by ferry or Lahemaa's bogs and manors.
It covers the Seaplane Harbour, Kumu, Kadriorg, the TV Tower, St Olaf's tower and public transport, and sells for roughly €45 for 24 hours and €78 for 72. Following all three days as written, the 72-hour card pays off; for a day, add up the tickets first.
Day 3: Kadriorg Palace, Kumu and the TV Tower are all indoors and the park walks are short. Waystop's rain plan can add a wet-weather version of day 2 that starts with the Seaplane Harbour.
Easily. Tallink's shuttle crosses in about two hours, six times a day; a 7:30 a.m. out and a 7:30 p.m. back gives you nine hours in Helsinki. Book a week ahead in summer.
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