Harestua is a small town in the south of Lunner

Lunner

Lunner is a municipality in Oppland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hadeland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Roa...

, Oppland

Oppland

is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. The county administration is in Lillehammer. Oppland is, together with Hedmark, one of the only two landlocked counties of Norway....

 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. It has approximately 2500 inhabitants (2003), and serves as a commuter town

Commuter town

A commuter town is an urban community that is primarily residential, from which most of the workforce commutes out to earn their livelihood. Many commuter towns act as suburbs of a nearby metropolis that workers travel to daily, and many suburbs are commuter towns...

 to the capital Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

. It is served by two railway station on the Gjøvik Line: Harestua Station

Harestua Station

Harestua Station is a railway station on the Gjøvik Line at Harestua in Norway. The station was opened as Harestuen in 1901 as a stop for passengers and freight one years ahead of the opening of the Gjøvik Line in 1902. In 1971, the station became fully automatized and remote controlled...

 and Furumo Station. Harestua maintains 6 neighbourhoods; Gamlefeltet, Nyfeltet, Vestbygda, Bjørgeseter, Haneknemoen (under construction) and Stryken. Harestua has a small town centre with services such as a petrol station, grocery store and fast food outlets. Harestua also has a combined elementary- and junior high school. The school has approximately 400 pupils.