Sweden Guide
Stockholm
Arrival
Most planes – international and domestic – arrive at Arlanda airport, 45km north of Stockholm. A high-speed rail link, the Arlanda Express, connects the airport with the city every fifteen minutes (daily from 4.35am to 12.35am; 20min; 190kr; 
www.arlandaexpress.com ), and is the easiest way to get into Stockholm. A cheaper option is to take the airport buses, Flygbussarna (daily 4.50am–11.45pm; 40min; 89kr; www.flygbussarna.se ), which run every ten minutes from the airport to Cityterminalen (Stockholm's central bus station); buy your ticket in the airport arrivals hall or from the driver. Taxis into Stockholm should cost around 350kr, an affordable alternative for a group – choose the ones that have prices displayed in their back windows to avoid being ripped off.
Some flights arrive at the more central Brommaairport, 10km to the west of the city centre near Brommaplan T-bana station. Bromma is also connected to the Cityterminalen by Flygbussarna – buses run in connection with flight arrivals and departures (20min; 70kr). Some budget airlines arrive at Skavsta airport, 100km to the south of the capital close to the town of Nyköping, as well as at Västerås, 100km west of Stockholm; Flygbussarna buses to and from Stockholm's Cityterminalen operate in conjunction with flights from both airports (both 80min; 130kr).
By train, you'll arrive at and depart from Central Station, a cavernous structure on Vasagatan in the Norrmalm district. Inside there are ATMs, a Forex money exchange office, and a very useful tourist information office and room-booking service, Hotellcentralen. From the station, it's a ten-minute walk across a pedestrian bridge to Gamla Stan, and another ten minutes uphill along Götgatan to central Södermalm.
By bus, your arrival point will be the huge glass structure known as Cityterminalen, a bus terminal adjacent to Central Station and reached by a series of escalators and walkways from the northern end of the main hall. It handles all bus services: airport and ferry shuttle services, and domestic and international buses. There are ATMs, an exchange office and Sidewalk Express Internet terminals here.
There are two main ferry companies connecting Stockholm with Helsinki, Turku and Mariehamn in Finland. Viking Line ( 
08/452 20 00, www.vikingline.fi ) ferries dock at Vikingterminalen on the island of Södermalm, from where you can catch a bus or walk to Slussen or Gamla Stan for the T-bana. Silja Line ( 08/22 21 40, www.silja.com ) ferries dock at Värtahamnen on the northeastern edge of the city; it's a short walk to the Gärdet T-bana station, or hop on bus #76, departing from beneath the pedestrian walkway, to Gamla Stan and Södermalm. Tallink ( www.tallink.se ) sailings from Tallinn in Estonia arrive at Frihamnen at the end of the #1 bus route, which passes Hötorget and Cityterminalen. If you're leaving Stockholm by ferry, note the Swedish names for destinations: Helsinki is "Helsingfors"; Turku is "Åbo".