Gaya
Gaya is a city, municipal corporation and the administrative headquarters of Gaya district and Magadh division of the Indian state of Bihar.
Gaya is a city, municipal corporation and the administrative headquarters of Gaya district and Magadh division of the Indian state of Bihar. Gaya is 116 kilometres (72 mi) south of Patna and is the state's second-largest city, with a population of 470,839. The city is surrounded on three sides by small, rocky hills, with the Phalgu River on its eastern side.
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Worth seeing in and around Gaya
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Gaya
- Airports
- Lal Bahadur Shastri (VNS), 230 km
- Stations
- Gaya Airport, 6 km · Manpur Junction railway station, 7.3 km · Shaheed Ishwar Chowdhary Halt railway station, 6.4 km
- Varanasi → Gaya209 km · quickest by road, 3h 40m · ₹1,550–1,930
- Siliguri → Gaya404 km · quickest by road, 7h 54m · ₹3,400–4,250
- Kolkata → Gaya423 km · quickest by road, 7h 56m · ₹3,290–4,110
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Gaya
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Gaya. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextAuto rickshaws cost about ₹200 and an air conditioned taxi costs ₹300-₹350.
From Wikivoyage: Gaya, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.
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- Bakraurvillage in Gaya District in Bihar5.7 km
- Manpurhuman settlement in India8 km