Vasastan
Cafés and bakeries used by residents rather than visitors.
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More than ninety of the metro's hundred stations carry artworks — sculpture, painting, mosaic and installations — by over a hundred and fifty artists, a project begun in the 1950s on a decision that public transport should be a gallery. The best known are **T-Centralen** with its blue leaf patterns on raw rock, **Solna Centrum** with its fiery red ceiling, and **Kungsträdgården** with archaeological fragments displayed underground. All are seen on a single metro ticket, and most of the striking stations are on the blue line. A two-hour tour is enough, and it is among the best things to do in Stockholm on a wet day.
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Odenplan is a square and transport interchange at the heart of **Vasastan**, its name from Odin, chief of the Norse gods — as the streets around it carry other gods' names: Tor, Freja, Balder. The square itself is not beautiful in a sightseeing sense: a busy junction of buses and trams. But it is **where you understand everyday Stockholm**: a dense residential district of early twentieth-century blocks, with cafés, bakeries and shops used by residents rather than visitors, and prices clearly below the centre. On it stands **Gustaf Vasa Church** of 1906, holding a vast Baroque altarpiece moved from another church, among the largest in Sweden. Beneath the square is **Odenplan station**, rebuilt in 2017 as a combined metro and commuter rail station with a large artwork — the Stockholm metro being known for stations that are art galleries. **The square is free**, and it is the best starting point for a walk through Vasastan.
Cafés and bakeries used by residents rather than visitors.
A large artwork in a station rebuilt in 2017.
Odenplan, Vasastan, Stockholm