Karlshamn Voyage Tips and guide

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Karlshamn is a city in the Blekinge province of southern Sweden. Karlshamn attracts visitors to the salmon fisheries in "Mörrumsån", to the rocky coastline and the Hällaryd archipelago and to the wooded hinterland. East of the city centre the famous Eriksbergs Viltpark is located.

• Karlshamn city website

Karlshamn is connected by railway, and the nearest major stations are Kristianstad to the west and Kalmar to the east.

Tourism peaks in June–August, when there is regular boat connection and accommodation service to islands like Tärnö.

DFDS Seaways provides a few places for passengers on their near daily service to Klaipeda in Lithuania, on board ro-ro freight ferries. The journey takes around 15 hours.

• 56.176314.86781 Karlshamn railway station. (updated Jun 2021)

• TaxiKurir Karlshamn, ☏ +46 455 81 000. Smart phone app offers address based routing and calculates price according to them. (updated Aug 2020)

• Axel Olsson's statue of Karl-Oskar and Kristina

• The Cultural Centre, Vinkelgatan 8. Historic buildings of Swedish punsch factory, the silver forge, the art gallery, the print workshop and merchant houses converted into a museum.
• Eriksberg. A wildlife park with a conference centre, and Scandinavia's only wild population of European bison. It is an old farmstead with surrounding land now host to a variety of native animals such as European Bison, Crown Deer, Moose and wild boar amongst others. 
• 56.26589214.7688351 Abu museum, Holländarevägen 86, Svängsta, ☏ +46 702 236 142, [email protected]. Open for pre-booked groups during the summer season. M-F 13:00-16:00, Sa 12:30-15:00. Private museum with artifacts of the historical and reknown Halda factory that produced pocket watches, typewriters and taxicab meters. The company later produced sport fishing rods and wheels, which today has the company name Abu Garcia. 
• 56.37017714.6809172 Ebbamåla bruk, Hovmandsbygdsvägen 610, Kyrkhult, ☏ +46 454 774 000, [email protected]. Open for pre-booked groups. Old cast iron factory that has been left intact since it was closed in the 1960s. It is now a museum on the industrial history in Sweden spanning a century from 1850 to 1950. 
• 56.35333114.4764213 Stenmuséet i Vilshult, Södra Fröatorpsvägen 22, Vilshult. 5 July to 3 August 2025, Sat-Sun: 13:00-16:00. Private museum owned by the local Kyrkhult Heritage Society. The museum has artifacts illustrating the historical quarrying of diabase rocks in Vilshult. 

• Kreativum Science Centre, Strömmavägen 28.

• 56.338414.65771 Röshults Vedugnsbageri, Röshultsvägen 71-9, Röshult, ☏ +46 72 543 20 92. Saturdays in the summer season: 10:00-14:00. This rural café lies within an old barn that has been equipped with a 20 tons wood fired oven. Using 50 to 75 kilograms of wood they bake up to 400 breads of different sizes. It is possible to order pizzas as well. Open on a regular basis in the summer and on occasions announced via Facebook. (updated Jul 2022)

• Hostel Karlshamn^{[dead link]}, Surbrunnsvägen 1C, tel. +46 454 14040. Double 420 kr.
• 56.17152915.0489661 Tjärö, Tjärö, Bräkne-Hoby, ☏ +46 454 60063, [email protected]. Tjärö is an island owned by the Swedish Tourist Society. It's open from 2 May to 21 September 2025. There is both a hotel and a hostel with a restaurant and café.