Guidebook for Oslo
Essentials
Good for groceries, next to Holmlia train station and on the way to my apartment.
Kiwi Holmlia Sentervei
69 AsperudveienGood for groceries, next to Holmlia train station and on the way to my apartment.
This supermarket is open 7 days a week, 8am-11pm Mon-Sat. 9am-11pm Sundays. Prices are more expensive here, but in an emergency, you can find food here. 5 min from the apartment.
Joker Holmlia
108 HallagerbakkenThis supermarket is open 7 days a week, 8am-11pm Mon-Sat. 9am-11pm Sundays. Prices are more expensive here, but in an emergency, you can find food here. 5 min from the apartment.
Entertainment & Activities
To relax and train the body. Yoga classes are on voluntary payment so it is worth trying. Google their name and you can find their website for the class schedule.
Eight Treasures Yoga
2 Prinsens gateTo relax and train the body. Yoga classes are on voluntary payment so it is worth trying. Google their name and you can find their website for the class schedule.
Drinks & Nightlife
Live music. Drinks. Cool crowd. Nice place to hang out all nights of the week except Saturdays when it's super-crowded.
13 locals recommend
Uhørt
11 TorggataLive music. Drinks. Cool crowd. Nice place to hang out all nights of the week except Saturdays when it's super-crowded.
Kulturhuset
6 Youngs gateCool place to be, to meet artistic people and sometimes dance.
Hip and cool people hang out here. Enough said. Grunerløkka is famous for artsy fartsy shops and lots to explore in the area.
61 locals recommend
Park Theater Bar
11 Olaf Ryes plassHip and cool people hang out here. Enough said. Grunerløkka is famous for artsy fartsy shops and lots to explore in the area.
Arts & Culture
Beautiful outdoors museum with buildings and stavkirker (wooden Viking churches) brought in from all over Norway. Good place to get to know Norwegian culture and music if you cannot travel the whole of Norway! Sometimes there are live "residents" in the huts and cottages from 1800s who will cook for you and invite you in. Live folk music and dances on som days. Celebrates Christmas market & Midsummer's Festival. See norskfolkemuseum.no/en/
171 locals recommend
Norwegian Museum of Cultural History
10 MuseumsveienBeautiful outdoors museum with buildings and stavkirker (wooden Viking churches) brought in from all over Norway. Good place to get to know Norwegian culture and music if you cannot travel the whole of Norway! Sometimes there are live "residents" in the huts and cottages from 1800s who will cook for you and invite you in. Live folk music and dances on som days. Celebrates Christmas market & Midsummer's Festival. See norskfolkemuseum.no/en/
Food Scene
Kings Pub offers pizza, pasta and good Italian food. A favourite bar for the locals, it is open everyday 12:00 - 01:00 for takeaways or eat-in, and for drinks at the bar. On some days the bar becomes lively with jazz and country bands, live music and locals. The best thing is that it is just 4 min walk from my apartment! :)
Kings Pub
1B Holmlia Senter veiKings Pub offers pizza, pasta and good Italian food. A favourite bar for the locals, it is open everyday 12:00 - 01:00 for takeaways or eat-in, and for drinks at the bar. On some days the bar becomes lively with jazz and country bands, live music and locals. The best thing is that it is just 4 min walk from my apartment! :)
Good selection of Norwegian, Spanish and Japanese food in one place. You can buy wild salmon here and watch it being cooked in front of you. A higher class marketplace.
780 locals recommend
Mathallen Oslo
5 VulkanGood selection of Norwegian, Spanish and Japanese food in one place. You can buy wild salmon here and watch it being cooked in front of you. A higher class marketplace.
Very worth the trip to the end of Line 1 of the subway to Frognerseteren. It is an old heritage buillding converted into a restaurant on top of the hill where the ski jump is. Serves yummy Norwegian traditional food. If too pricey, just go for a coffee and sit by the window to admire the views of Oslo on a clear sunny day. Open 11am-10pm everyday according to Google.
147 locals recommend
Frognerseteren
200 HolmenkollveienVery worth the trip to the end of Line 1 of the subway to Frognerseteren. It is an old heritage buillding converted into a restaurant on top of the hill where the ski jump is. Serves yummy Norwegian traditional food. If too pricey, just go for a coffee and sit by the window to admire the views of Oslo on a clear sunny day. Open 11am-10pm everyday according to Google.
Grünerløkka
Famous hip and cool place, full of restaurants and bars.
Parks & Nature
It's both a park and an outdoor galleri! Get great views over the city. In summer there is free outdoor yoga here.
209 locals recommend
Ekebergparken station
It's both a park and an outdoor galleri! Get great views over the city. In summer there is free outdoor yoga here.
This is the park around the Royal Palace, at the end of Karl Johans street. Beautiful park, nice to visit.
128 locals recommend
Slottsparken station
This is the park around the Royal Palace, at the end of Karl Johans street. Beautiful park, nice to visit.
Worth an hour's trip in the summer but take note of the infrequent boat times. Nice to use the Zone 1 ticket to take a boat into the fjord and onto the islands. Lindøya is full of cute huts and beautiful gardens. Hovedøya which is another boat stop, is famous for its medieval monastry and beach.
7 locals recommend
Lindøya
Worth an hour's trip in the summer but take note of the infrequent boat times. Nice to use the Zone 1 ticket to take a boat into the fjord and onto the islands. Lindøya is full of cute huts and beautiful gardens. Hovedøya which is another boat stop, is famous for its medieval monastry and beach.
Sightseeing
Famous park for its naked statues by Gustav Vigeland, who created this whole park with its landscaping. His statues depict stages of life and the meaning of human relations. If you are here just for a day, go for this park. Free entry. Best seen in daytime, but romantic at night (warning: can be cold in winter).
598 locals recommend
Vigelandsparken station
KirkeveienFamous park for its naked statues by Gustav Vigeland, who created this whole park with its landscaping. His statues depict stages of life and the meaning of human relations. If you are here just for a day, go for this park. Free entry. Best seen in daytime, but romantic at night (warning: can be cold in winter).
Karl Johans gate
Karl Johans gateShopping street of Oslo.
Bogstadveien
BogstadveienAnother famous shopping street of high-end fashion.