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Arriving by car is easy since Haparanda is on the E4 with roads in good shape. It is a border town so there is a fair share of heavy duty traffic coming through.
Altough Haparanda boasts a train station, there is no passenger service. [wiki=1be1a8ddf64222d95e4561f23b2ce253]Tornio[/wiki] across the river has a daily train coming from [wiki=8449280a23f8c4fcfb13469f6dc19592]Helsinki[/wiki] but otherwise your best bet is [wiki=768e932985a14c807ca0b292596f4ff6]Kemi[/wiki] with quite frequent connections from all parts of Finland. Two daily Swedish night trains, one from [wiki=fcfff492e00727b63cf5dff9f59bc2a4]Stockholm[/wiki] and one from [wiki=7e268c60ba15269bd8aafe315096ecc2]Gothenburg[/wiki] terminate in Luleå with a connecting express bus to Haparanda waiting.
VR [url=http://www.vr.fi]]has a night train from Helsinki to Kolari, which stops at Tornio, the station is named Tornio- Itäinen.
More trains stop at Kemi, 30 km away from Haparanda. From there you'll have to continue with the bus service provided by Matkahuolto [http://www.matkahuolto.fi[/url].
Express coaches from Sweden are handled by Länstrafiken Norrbotten [url=http://www.ltnbd.se],]there are daily connections to cities as [[Kiruna[/url]], Luleå and [wiki=632595dcfd234ec2ce1e5d49929c4777]Umeå[/wiki] while some buses continue all the way to [wiki=fcfff492e00727b63cf5dff9f59bc2a4]Stockholm[/wiki]. Resrobot [url=http://www.resrobot.se]]finds the best public transport routes.
To Finland, frequent bus connections with Matkahuolto [url=http://www.matkahuolto.fi[/url]]connects Haparanda to [[Tornio[/url]] and [wiki=768e932985a14c807ca0b292596f4ff6]Kemi[/wiki], but some lines extend even to bus station in [wiki=97182b40f63df5a8bbff0ab0e1708197]Oulu[/wiki]. Beware that all buses going to Finland depart according to local Finnish time, which is one hour ahead of time in Haparanda.
Haparanda has no airport of its own, the nearest one being in [wiki=768e932985a14c807ca0b292596f4ff6]Kemi[/wiki] [url=http://www.finavia.fi/airports/airport_kemitornio]](24km) on the Finnish side, from where Flybe runs scheduled flights to Helsinki. From there you'll have to continue with the bus service provided by Matkahuolto [http://www.matkahuolto.fi[/url], the nearest bus stop of Kemi airport is named Kemi lentoasema th.