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Riihimäki, the center of southern Finland that sparkles with joy, is centrally located and familiar to many. Riihimäki is often a city through which you travel elsewhere. What a waste, because Riihimäki has a lot to offer even longer, even for a visit lasting the rest of your life! To help with this issue, we have recruited Riihimäki's official personal local guide - entertainment all-rounder Janne Kataja, who is loved by the whole nation. Let yourself be thrown in and experience Riihimäki with new eyes!
This is how you apply for your own personal local guide!
Are you considering moving to Riihimäki? Do you want to get to know the city together with your own personal local guide? The purpose of the personal local guide is to make it easier to move to Riihimäki, to get to know the city and to show the real Riihimäki.
The personal local guide has committed to one meeting, during which you can visit the library, explore the city or even go swimming. After this, the operation will continue as the personal local guide and the person interested in Riihimäki mutually agree. Everything is possible up to lifelong friendship.
All personal local guides are over 18 years old.
Want your own personal local guide? If you want, fill out the form carefully and, in addition to your contact information, tell us about your interests, for example. The information is used when your own personal local guide is selected for you.
You Riihimäki resident, do you want to be a personal local guide?
The city organization is constantly looking for people from Riihimäki to be personal local guides for people and families moving to the city or considering moving. The purpose of the personal local guide is to make it easier to move to the city and to introduce the real Riihimäki.
The city organization connects personal local guides and those interested in Riihimäki with each other based on, for example, age, hobby or other connecting factors. The wishes of those interested in Riihimäki are taken into account in the merger.
All kinds of people from Riihmäki are wanted as personal local guides; families with children, couples, singles and senior citizens. The personal local guides commit to one meeting. Joint activities can include, for example, getting to know the city, visits to the library or other places in Riihimäki, and things to do together, for example swimming, going to stage dances or picking berries. After this, the operation will continue as the personal local guide and the person interested in Riihimäki mutually agree.
Anyone over the age of 18 from Riihmäki can apply to be a personal local guide. The search continues for the time being. The first training event was organized on March 28.3.2023. New training events are organized as needed. The city organization rewards personal local guides with R product packages and ticket packages.
The first and most famous personal local guide is actor and entrepreneur, Janne Kataja, who is a proud Riihimäki resident, who continues as a personal local guide with other Riihimäki residents.
Do you want to be a personal local guide? If you answered yes, fill out the form carefully. In addition to your contact information, tell us about your own way of living and your interests on the form. This information is used when the personal local guide and the person interested about the city, i.e. the person considering moving to Riihimäki, are connected to each other.
Get to know our personal local guides
In addition to Janne, we already have thirty personal local guides representing Riihimäki. We want to introduce some of them to you. Ten personal local guides share their stories on our website and on the city's social media channels. Check the personal local guides yourself and fall in love!