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Staying in Nordre Aker
Nordre Aker is the wedge north of Ring 3: the Blindern university campus, Ullevål Hageby, Nydalen and Storo, then Tåsen, Kringsjå and Grefsen climbing to the forest edge at Sognsvann. It holds the national football stadium, the biggest campus in Norway and a business park, and this is where Oslo's cheap chain rooms and summer hostel beds actually are.
The price is real and so is the transport - the Ring line through Storo and Nydalen and the Sognsvann line through Ullevål stadion both reach the centre in ten to fifteen minutes. What you do not get is a place to be. These are 1930s garden-suburb streets and 1990s office blocks: no square, no restaurant row, nothing open late, and a long walk between anything.
Book it for one reason only: you are here in summer, everything central is full or absurd, and a metro ride twice a day is worth two hundred kroner a night. The forest at Sognsvann and the Akerselva path from Frysja down through Nydalen are genuinely good, and they are the only sightseeing this borough has.
What works
- Cheapest chain and hostel beds in Oslo outside Grønland
- Ring line and Sognsvann line reach the centre in 10 to 15 minutes
- Sognsvann lake and the Nordmarka forest start at the last metro stop
- Genuinely quiet, safe and residential at every hour
What does not
- No centre of its own: garden suburbs and office parks, nothing open late
- About 50 minutes on foot to Karl Johans gate, and it is a climb back
- Nothing on a sightseeing list is here except a football stadium
- Long walks between stations, which is a different thing in January
Nordre Aker is best known as the site of Ullevål Stadion, the stadium of the Norway national football team.The borough consists of several neighborhoods, from west to east: Gaustad, Øvre Blindern, Ullevål Hageby, Sogn, Kringsjå, Nordberg, Korsvoll, Tåsen, Ullevål, Berg, Nydalen, Storo, Frysja, Disen, Kjelsås, Grefsen and Nordre Åsen.