Baranagar
Baranagar is a city and a municipality in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Baranagar is a city and a municipality in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).
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Worth seeing in and around Baranagar
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.
What Wikivoyage says to see
Balaram Mandir. Once a residence of Balaram Bose, a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, the house hosts various events under the auspices of the Ramakrishna Mission, including the birthday celebrations of Ramakrishna, his wife Sarada Devi, and Swami Vivekananda. The house also has a collection of 1,800 books.
- 01Belgachia Villa
- 02Clive House
Considered to be the first pucca brick and cement building in West Bengal, possibly built by the Dutch or Portuguese.
- 03Cossipore Burning Ghat
- 04G.T.S
A 75 ft (23 m) masonry tower, built in 1831 for the Great Trigonometrical Survey conducted by George Everest, the namesake of Mount Everest.
- 05Tala Tank
- 06Dakshineswar Kali Temple
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Things to do
- 01Cossipore Club
4, Dum Dum Rd,.
- 02Sinthee More Ground
Hosts various local events throughout the year, including "Ajanta Circus" every winter.
- 03Tala Lake Park
A parcel of greenery within the area's hustle.
- 04Narayani Cinema
15, Surya Sen Rd.
- 05Sonali Cinema
140, BT Rd.
- 06Dum Dum Park Bharat Chakra
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Where to eat
Major food chains include Wow Momo (140, BT Rd).
- 01Arsalan Restaurant & Caterer
Popular items: firni, mutton kosha, mutton boti kebab, chicken chatpata, mutton biryani, egg chicken roll.
- 02Food Plaza
Rani Rashmoni Rd (close to the Kali Temple).
- 03Haldiram's
- 04Sher-e-Punjab
Jessore Road, Sukanta Nagar,.
- 05Anandamayee Sweets
Traditional Bengal sweets, curd (in Bengali "doi"), ice cream, dhokla, lassi.
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Getting to Baranagar
- Airports
- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 8 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 247 km
- Stations
- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, 8 km · Howrah railway station, 6.9 km · Sealdah railway station, 8 km · Kolkata railway station, 4.5 km
- Bhubaneswar → Baranagar372 km · quickest by air, 3h 50m · ₹5,290–8,160
- Siliguri → Baranagar452 km · quickest by air, 4h 10m · ₹5,910–9,090
- Guwahati → Baranagar521 km · quickest by air, 4h 44m · ₹6,420–9,860
- 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 Baranagar
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 Baranagar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBy ferry: There is a ferry terminal ("ghat") opposite the station that can get you to the opposite side of the river.
- Get inBesides, there are various ferry options from Howrah, Serampore and Uttarpara.
- Get aroundThere are four types of rickshaws in Kolkata: human-pulled rickshaws, cycle rickshaws, auto-rickshaws and electric rickshaws.
- Get aroundRickshaws pulled by men are a common sight in Kolkata and they are mainly found in some old localities of Kolkata.
- Get aroundThese rickshaws usually operate over short distances and mainly run on narrow lanes and they are not allowed to ply over main roads.
From Wikivoyage: Kolkata, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Baranagar
Baranagar is 3 km from Kāmārhāti, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kolkatacapital city of West Bengal, India8.1 km
- HowrahCity in West Bengal, India7.9 km
- Howrah districtdistrict in West Bengal, India8.7 km
- Kolkata districtdistrict in West Bengal, India7.5 km
- Dum DumCity in West Bengal, India5.5 km
- PanihatiCity in West Bengal, India5.6 km