Liiva is a railway station in Tallinn, a stop that connects the city's western districts with the centre. The station itself is modest, but its position gives travellers a practical foothold: from here you can reach the medieval Old Town, the wooden streets of Kalamaja and the creative hub of Telliskivi. The wider city rewards exploration beyond the postcard. Tallinn's Old Town is the real thing — 2 km of standing wall, twenty surviving towers, a functioning 1404 town hall, and a street plan that has not been rationalised. The lower town around Raekoja plats is merchants' Tallinn; Toompea, up the limestone hill through Pikk jalg gate, was where the nobility and the bishops sat. Kalamaja, ten minutes north of the walls, is a district of two-storey wooden apartment houses with limestone ground floors, now full of coffee roasters and small restaurants. Telliskivi Creative City, in the old railway workshops behind the Balti Jaam market, is where the design shops, Fotografiska and half the good bars are. For visitors, hotels near Liiva offer a quieter base with easy rail access to these sights.