Kemijärvi railway station is the northernmost regular passenger station on the Finnish rail network — the end of the line from Helsinki. The station building is modest, dating from the post-war era, but arriving here by overnight sleeper from the capital carries a genuine sense of having reached somewhere. Step off the train in the morning and you are as far north as scheduled trains will take you in Finland.
The journey itself is part of the experience. The overnight train from Helsinki takes around ten hours, the compartments are comfortable, and you wake up to birch forest and frozen lakes outside the window. From here you can also take a bus or local connection down to Rovaniemi, the regional capital.