--- title: "Chākan – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Chākan, India: Chakan is a city and municipal council in Pune district of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Nearby: Sangram Durg. Every way there from the…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chakan" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chakan.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Chakan_Fort-_Sangram_Durg_%287637611332%29.jpg/1920px-Chakan_Fort-_Sangram_Durg_%287637611332%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Town in Maharashtra, India # Chākan Chakan is a city and municipal council in Pune district of the Indian state of Maharashtra. ![Chākan](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Chakan_Fort-_Sangram_Durg_%287637611332%29.jpg/1920px-Chakan_Fort-_Sangram_Durg_%287637611332%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Chākan · shankar s. from sharjah, united arab emirates The place Chakan is a city and municipal council in Pune district of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The Chakan is also part of Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority. Chakan is one of the largest automobile and manufacturing hub of India. Being developed as a hub for manufacturing and logistics by MIDC, Chakan is home to some of the biggest names in automobile manufacturing: Volkswagen, Bajaj Auto, Mercedes Benz Hyundai, and more. Chakan is often referred to as the "Automobile Hub of India". The Independent referred Chakan as India's "Motor City". The city is about 30 km from the city of Pune and 140 km from Mumbai. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakan%2C_Pune), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Chākan One place 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. 1. Sangram Durg Sangram Durga is a fort situated at Chakan, Pune, Maharashtra, India. The original area of the fort was 65 acres, currently it is only 5.5 acres. 1.3 km · Land fort in Chakan, Pune, Maharashtra, India · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakan_fort) 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. Go there ## Getting to Chākan **Airports:** Pune (PNQ), 20 km · Navi Mumbai (NMI), 87 km · Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj (BOM), 110 km\ - Navi Mumbai → Chākan 94 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · ₹770–960 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/navi-mumbai-to-chakan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Navi+Mumbai&to=Ch%C4%81kan) - Mumbai → Chākan 109 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · ₹880–1,100 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/mumbai-to-chakan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Mumbai&to=Ch%C4%81kan) - Kakadi → Chākan 786 km · quickest by road, 14h 49m · ₹6,150–7,700 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kakadi-to-chakan) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kakadi&to=Ch%C4%81kan) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Ch%C4%81kan) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Chākan 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 Chākan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Gokarna](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gokarna) IN 7 ways of moving, 14 sources 470 km 2. [Hampi](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hampi) IN 8 ways of moving, 18 sources 470 km 3. [Agatti](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/agatti) IN 8 ways of moving, 19 sources 895 km 4. [Nelliyampathy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/nelliyampathy) IN 7 ways of moving, 26 sources 963 km 5. [Kanthalloor](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kanthalloor) IN 6 ways of moving, 13 sources 1,014 km If you know how people move in Chākan – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cchakan&title=Ch%C4%81kan&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fchakan), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Chākan Chākan is 15 km from [Pimpri](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/pimpri), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. [The place page for Chākan](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/chakan) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on India](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-IN) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chakan, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt