Nurmijärvi

Nurmijärvi is a rural municipality with a long history, when the earliest documentary mention of Nurmijärvi dates back to 1488. An administrative municipality was officially founded in 1775, and it formerly included the town of Hyvinkää. A former lake next to the church village that gave the municipality its name, was partially drained in the 1920s and completely drained in the 1950s for farmland. Nurmijärvi was once home of the first pharmaceutical factory of Finland, founded in 1899 by pharmacist Albin Koponen (1858–1917), the main products of which were filizine extracted from male fern root rhizomes, sold as fish tapeworm, and Cestoda medicines called Filisin and Filicon.

The population of the municipality is some 45,000 inhabitants (2021), and in recent decades, Nurmijärvi has been one of the fastest growing municipalities of Finland. Nurmijärvi has become popular with families moving out from Helsinki to single-family homes in the urban areas and countryside.

The administrative centre is the urban area of Nurmijärvi, but the largest urban area is the southern town of Klaukkala (Swedish: Klövskog) near the border to Vantaa and Espoo, with about 20,000 inhabitants, continuous with the Helsinki urban area. Rajamäki is the municipality's third largest and northernmost significant settlement, near the border to Hyvinkää. The fourth largest settlement, Röykkä, is near the Vihti border in the northwestern part of the municipality.

Tourist information:

1 Nurmijärvi Tourist Information, ☏ +358 9 250-021, kunta@nurmijarvi.fi.

From Helsinki and Vantaa, you can get to Nurmijärvi along Highway 3 (E12) in the direction of Hämeenlinna and Tampere. From Hyvinkää, you can get to Nurmijärvi along Highway 25 in the direction of Hanko. You can also get to Nurmijärvi from Tuusula along Highway 45 via Nukari or along regional road 139 via Palojoki, and from the direction of Loppi and Karkkila along regional road 132 via Röykkä and Perttula.

By bus:

Korsisaari operates bus routes from Helsinki and Hyvinkää via both 1 Nurmijärvi bus station and 2 Rajamäki bus station. To get to Klaukkala by coaches between Tampere and Helsinki, use the highway stop Klaukkala liittymä 11. The 3 Klaukkala bus station is located in the Viirinlaakso area, the southern part of Klaukkala.

By train:

As of 2025, there is no railway passenger traffic in the municipal area. Looking from Klaukkala, the closest passenger traffic point is 4 Kivistö railway station on the Vantaa side. This works along the Ring Rail Line, from which there is a connection to 5 Helsinki Airport. From Kivistö station, you have to continue to the Nurmijärvi side by bus or taxi. Looking from the villages of Rajamäki and Nurmijärvi, the nearest railway stops are 6 Hyvinkää railway station on the Hyvinkää side and 7 Jokela railway station on the Tuusula side.