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General emergency number: 112

Police 

Police Station, Salininkatu 3, tel.(03) 89 611

Lost and Found:
Police Station, tel. (03)896 369.
Mon-Wed, Fri 8.00-16.15, Thu 8.00-17.00

Bank

Banks are normally open Monday-Friday from 9.00 or 9.15 to 16.15 or 16.30. Cash dispensers (Otto) are available to the customers of all banks; you will need a cash card or bank card to use them.
All banks have branches throughout the country. The biggest bank is Nordea, but Osuuspankki Group and Sampo also have a lot of branches, especially in the countryside. There is no charge for deposits or withdrawals in any of them.

Currency can be exchanged at any bank in Finland. It is worth changing large amounts at a time, to avoid service charges. Some banks also have automatic currency exchange machines.

The major credit cards (Visa, Eurocard, Access, MasterCard, Diner's Club and American Express) are accepted throughout the country; however, Visa is the most commonly accepted one.

Bank Offices in Lahti:

  • Sampo Pankki, Aleksanterinkatu 8
  • Handelsbanken, Rautatienkatu 20
  • Nordea, Aleksanterinkatu 5
  • Päijät-Hämeen Osuuspankki (OP), Aleksanterinkatu 20, inside TRIO

Post Offices

Post offices are normally open Monday-Friday. Stamped mail (both national and international) can be dropped in the yellow post-boxes for collection. Stamps are available at post offices, some book shops and paper shops, R-kiosks, supermarkets, railway and bus stations, and stamp machines. Prices are according to the weight of the letter or package and destination. There are four different categories of destination: Finland, other EU countries, other European countries, other countries.

Information telephone (locations, opening times, price information, etc.): (03) 9800 7100 (Mon-Fri 8-20, Sat 9-14).

Some post offices:

  • Lahti 10, Mannerheiminkatu 13
  • Lahti 11, Mariankatu 17
  • Lahti 14, Kauppakatu 11
  • Lahti, Aleksanterinkatu 18, inside TRIO

Mobile Phone 

Mobile phones are very common in Finland. If you have one, please check with your operator at home about their roaming agreement with a Finnish operator. The advantage with roaming is that you keep your domestic phone number; the drawback is that you will be charged heavily for the calls. Alternatively, you can buy pre-paid Finnish SIM cards; they are sold for example at R-kiosks.

Pharmacies

'Apteekki' sells both medicine and assorted products related to health. It does not sell groceries apart from occasional sweets. There are some basic medicine that are available for everyone, such as flu and cough medicine, mild pain killers and allergy medicine etc. Some of them can also be prescribed by a doctor, which decreases the price of the drug.

Antibiotics, strong pain killers, depression medicine etc. are always on prescription and can only be sold to the person whom they were prescribed to.

The major pharmacies in Lahti are:

  • Aleksanterinkatu 13
  • Aleksanterinkatu 18, inside TRIO
  • Torikatu 1
  • Rautatienkatu 7
  • Kauppakatu 14
  • Mariankatu 19
  • Kauppakatu 37
  • Hämeenkatu 20
  • Karjalankatu 45
  • Hirsimetsäntie 64
  • Ritaniemenkatu 13

Churches 

  • Church of the Cross (Lutheran), Kirkkokatu 4, Mon-Sun 10-15
  • Launeen kirkko (Lutheran), Vapaudenkatu 6
  • Joutjärven kirkko (Lutheran), Ilmarisentie 1
  • Salpausselän kirkko (Lutheran), Petsamonkatu 10
  • Orthodox Church, Harjukatu 5