# Is St. Hanshaugen a Good Area to Stay in Oslo? Map & Verdict

Verdict: Recommended. Book here without thinking about it.

Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo/st-hanshaugen
Every Oslo district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo.md

Central Oslo with people living in it. Twelve minutes downhill to Karl Johans gate, and the shops on your street are open when you come back.

Facts: 12 min walk to Karl Johans gate; 30 min to the airport; 30 min to the beach; price €€€; best for first-timers, quiet, food, longer stays; lines 17, 18, 19.

St. Hanshaugen is the wedge north of Ring 1: St. Olavs plass, Ullevålsveien, Bislett, the hill park the borough is named after, and the top end of Torggata. It is the answer to the question most people are really asking when they book Sentrum - central, but somewhere that exists on a Tuesday in February.

The walk in is about a kilometre and it is downhill on the way to Karl Johans gate, uphill on the way back. There is no metro station in the borough; you get trams 17 and 18 and bus 37, all of which reach the centre in under ten minutes. For a stay of three nights or more that is a better deal than it sounds, because everything else here is cheaper: the restaurants on Ullevålsveien and Torggata are priced for the people who live above them.

The compromises are real. Nothing on a first-time sightseeing list is actually inside this borough, the hill is a hill, and the blocks nearest Ring 1 are dominated by hospital and ministry buildings that make for a dull evening walk. If you want to step out of the lobby into the view, this is not it.

What works:
- About twelve minutes on foot to Karl Johans gate, all of it flat or downhill
- Restaurants on Ullevålsveien and Torggata priced for residents, not visitors
- St. Hanshaugen park is the best free viewpoint in central Oslo
- Quiet at night without being far out - Bislett is residential by 23:00

What does not:
- No metro station in the borough; trams and buses only
- None of the major sights are here - everything is a walk or a tram away
- The return from the centre is uphill, which matters with luggage or ice
- The Ring 1 edge is hospital and ministry blocks, dead after office hours

Hotels in St. Hanshaugen: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fdest_id%3D4902%26dest_type%3Ddistrict%26group_adults%3D2%26no_rooms%3D1

## Other districts in Oslo

- [Sentrum](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo/sentrum): Recommended. The whole of Karl Johans gate, the Palace, the fortress and the Central Station in one small borough. About a thousand people live here, and you will feel it after 22:00.
- [Frogner](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo/frogner): Recommended. The wealthy west: Vigeland park, Majorstuen, Aker Brygge and the Bygdøy museums. Wide, quiet streets and the most expensive food in Norway.
- [Grünerløkka](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo/grunerlokka): Recommended. Oslo's drinking and eating district, in a grid of 1890s tenements twenty minutes north of the centre. Cheaper than the west, and loud until 03:00 at weekends.
- [Gamle Oslo](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo/gamle-oslo): Mixed. The cheapest central beds in Oslo, and the one district Norwegian police name. The Opera, the Munch and Grønland's food streets are all in it, and so is the drug market.
- [Sagene](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo/sagene): Mixed. Torshov and Bjølsen, one ring road north of Grünerløkka. The same 1890s tenements for less money, and half an hour on foot from Karl Johans gate.
- [Ullern](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo/ullern): Avoid. Skøyen's office towers and the villa hills above them. Four minutes from the airport train and 55 minutes on foot from anything you came to see.
- [Nordre Aker](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo/nordre-aker): Avoid. Ullevål, Nydalen and the student halls up towards Sognsvann. Cheap beds on the metro, a football stadium, and no city around them.
- [Vestre Aker](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-oslo/vestre-aker): Avoid. Holmenkollen, Vinderen and the forest above them. Two famous hotels with a view of Oslo, 20 to 30 minutes on one metro line from anything you can do in it.