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Tuo on uusi leipomo, jossa on erinomainen tunnelma.

Tuo on uusi leipomo, jossa on erinomainen tunnelma.
That is a new bakery, which has an excellent atmosphere.
From Lesson 125:Relative pronouns in local cases (jossa, josta)·Finnish

Questions & Answers about Tuo on uusi leipomo, jossa on erinomainen tunnelma.

Why is the relative pronoun joka in the form jossa here?
jossa is the inessive ("in") case of joka (which). The sentence literally translates to "in which is an excellent atmosphere". Because a bakery is an enclosed physical space, Finnish uses the "in" case to talk about what is inside it.
How does jossa on translate to "which has"?
Finnish doesn't have a direct verb for "to have". Instead, it uses a location case plus the verb on (is). Just like you would say minulla on (on me is = I have), here we say jossa on (in which is = which has) to describe what the bakery contains.
Why does the sentence start with Tuo instead of Se, since both can mean "that"?
Tuo is used to point out something concrete that you can physically see in your environment, like a building over there. Se is generally used to refer back to something you were already talking about, or for more abstract concepts.
Do erinomainen and tunnelma need to be in a special case here?
No, they stay in their basic nominative form. In "having" sentences that use the location + on structure, the thing that is "had" is actually the grammatical subject of the sentence, so it usually stays in its basic dictionary form.

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