Bamban
Bamban, officially the Municipality of Bamban, is a municipality in the province of Tarlac, Philippines.
Bamban, officially the Municipality of Bamban, is a municipality in the province of Tarlac, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 81,012 people.
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Worth seeing in and around Bamban
3 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.
- 01Immaculate Conception Parish Church
The Santuario de la Inmaculada Concepcion, also known as Immaculate Conception Parish Church and Concepcion Church, is a late 19th-century, Baroque Roman Catholic church located at Brgy. San Nicolas Poblacion, Concepcion, Tarlac, Philippines.
5.6 km · church in Tarlac, Philippines · Wikipedia - 02Bamban Bridge
The Banban Bridge is a highway bridge in Central Luzon, Philippines, which is part of the MacArthur Highway.
1.7 km · bridge in Tarlac and Mabalacat, Pampanga · Wikipedia - 03Mabalacat College
Mabalacat City College, formerly Mabalacat College, is an institution of higher learning funded and managed by the Mabalacat City government, Pampanga, Philippines.
3.6 km · city-funded college in Pampanga, Philippines · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Bamban World War II Museum
6 Rizal Avenue, Lourdes, +63 998 454 8622, rhoniedelacruz@bambanmuseum.org, rhonie.bamban@yahoo.com.phMULTIPLE EMAIL.
- 02Santo Niño Parish Church
Bamban's main Roman Catholic church, known in town for its distinctive spires.
- 03Baofu Compound
- 04Bamban Bridge
- 05Japanese Cave
A network of caves and tunnels on a hill that was used as a hideout by Japanese forces during World War II.
- 06Grotto Of Our Lady Of Lourdes
From Wikivoyage: Bamban, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Bamban
- Airports
- Clark / Clark Air Base (CRK), 10 km · Subic Bay / Naval Air Station Cubi Point (SFS), 62 km · Ninoy Aquino (MNL), 98 km
- Olongapo → Bamban58 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · ₱180–240
- Manila (Pasay) → Bamban93 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · ₱235–315
- Laoag City → Bamban325 km · quickest by road, 8h 42m · ₱900–1,200
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Bamban
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 Bamban. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inTo get to the airport from Dau Bus Terminal the "cheap way": take a jeepney to the main gate.
- Get inAt the main gate ask for the jeepneys to the airport.
- Get inAt maingate, some jeepney drivers will also offer to bring you to the terminal building for about , just insist that you want to go the cheap way.
- Get inAngeles is also connected to the provincial capital, San Fernando, through jeepneys and minibuses.
- Get inThere are also jeepneys connecting the city to neighboring towns such as Magalang, Porac and Floridablanca.
From Wikivoyage: Angeles, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Bamban – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Bamban
Bamban is 14 km from Angeles City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.