Shopping in Rovaniemi

Shopping centres are places for enjoying pastime and hanging out with friends while shopping. In the shopping centres in Rovaniemi you’ll find anything from global fashion and local design to Arctic souvenirs, and from books and gifts to outdoor gear. Get everything easily under one roof – and don’t forget to take a break and enjoy lunch or a coffee.

Rovaniemi shopping centres are used by the locals daily. Each of the shopping centres offer great shopping opportunities, but also have their own characteristics and specialties.

Finnish design is synonymous with elegant style merging with practicality and functionality. The world fame of Finnish design was born halfway last century and is strong to the date. Some examples of Finnish design items would be furniture, glass, and ceramics as well as utility items such scissors. One can learn more and buy Finnish design in Rovaniemi in major department stores, small indie boutiques, and museum shops.

If you are looking for something unique, luxurious, or perhaps locally handmade, Rovaniemi is the place to go shopping. Be it fine art, Finnish design, high fashion, contemporary jewelry, or traditional Lappish handicrafts, the options are abundant.

Whether you visit Korundi, Arktikum, Pilke, or the Rovaniemi Theater, you’ll find their carefully curated shops reflecting the heart and soul of Lapland. Going shopping in any of the venues’ shops, you don’t have to buy ticket to the exhibitions or shows.

Wrap up in a Lappish blanket or hang an Arctic ornament on your keychain. The cultural heritage seen in the Lappish handicrafts is extensive. Many artisans work with local materials such as reindeer antlers and skin, fish skin, and wood from Lapland. The materials can be used to make traditional wooden drinking cups called ‘kuksa’, jewelry, and other items like knives and small pouches. Clothes and accessories in Lapland have a flavor of the north in the design as well as the soft, warm materials.

Deciding on a souvenir can be a daunting task with so much to choose from. Is it a local delicacy, a Lappish clothing item, or handmade jewelry? Stepping into one of the gift and souvenir shops in Rovaniemi, you can’t go wrong.

Tip! You can find Finnish chocolate and other local food products with decent price also from Supermarket Rinteenkulma.

Sustainability is the new black, and we love it! In Rovaniemi shopping sustainably can mean buying locally designed and produced items and quality design goods that last long. Choosing preloved items and products from responsible brands is possible in the attractive secondhand shop SMUK.

Paying attention to where and how you shop can have a huge impact. Choosing locally designed and produced items equals supporting local business and shopping more sustainably.

Tip! Look for Likiliike-label to spot an authentic, local business.

In Rovaniemi the shopping center Sampokeskus is focusing on sustainability by becoming actively more energy efficient and reducing their carbon footprint in recent years. Their goal is to be the forerunner of the northern commercial properties in environmental and responsibility issues.