Chickpet
Chickpete is a wholesale/retail neighborhood in Bengaluru, India.
Chickpete is a wholesale/retail neighborhood in Bengaluru, India. It houses one of the smallest roads as artery roads in entire Bangalore city. It is one of the city's oldest areas and is famous for its cloth Shops and wholesale businesses. It is near the Electric Market area in Bangalore and is a part of the Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency. Its roots go back to the 16th century.
It is also said that Shivaji had spent early years of his childhood in Bengaluru with his father Shahaji Raje Bhosale. And his palace was there in the area which is known today as Chikkapete. Today the locality is home to the second largest Marwadi community in South india after Sowcarpet in Chennai.
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Worth seeing in and around Chickpet
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.
- 01Lalbagh Botanical Garden, Bangalore
Lalbagh Botanical Garden or simply Lalbagh, is a botanical garden in Bengaluru, India. It was originally built by Hyder Ali in 1760, during the Sultanate of Mysore.
2.8 km · botanical garden in Bangalore, India · Wikipedia - 02M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
The M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, also known as the Karnataka State Cricket Association Stadium, is a cricket stadium in Bengaluru city of the Indian state of Karnataka. The ground is owned by the Government of Karnataka and operated by the Karnataka State Cricket Association.
2.5 km · cricket stadium in Bangalore, Karnataka, India · Wikipedia - 03Sree Kanteerava Stadium
Sree Kanteerava Outdoor Stadium, also known as Sampangi Outdoor Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Bengaluru, India. It houses a running track, a volleyball court, and two outdoor rock climbing walls.
1.8 km · building in India · Wikipedia - 04Cubbon Park
Cubbon Park, officially Sri Chamarajendra Park, is a landmark park in Bengaluru, located in the heart of the city in the Central Business District. Originally created in 1870 under Major General Richard Sankey, then British Chief Engineer of Mysore State, it covered an area of 100 acres.
1.8 km · park in Bangalore, India · Wikipedia - 05Bengaluru Palace
Bengaluru Palace is a 19th-century royal palace located in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It was commissioned by the Maharaja of Mysore, and was completed in 1874.
3.4 km · palace in Bengaluru, India · Wikipedia - 06Dharmaraya Swamy Temple
Shri Dharmaraya Swamy Temple is one of the oldest and most famous Hindu temples of the city of Bengaluru, in Karnataka, India.
1 km · building in India · Wikipedia - 07Bengaluru Fort
Bangalore Fort began construction in 1537 as a mud fort. The builder was Kempe Gowda I, a vassal of the Vijayanagara Empire and the founder of Bangalore.
1 km · fort in Bengaluru, India · Wikipedia - 08Dodda Ganeshana Gudi
Dodda Basavana Gudi is situated in Bull Temple Road, Basavanagudi, area of South Bengaluru, part of the largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. The Hindu temple is inside a park called Bugle Rock.
3.4 km · temple in Bangalore, India · Wikipedia - 09Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace
Tipu Sultan's Summer Palace, in Bangalore, India, is an example of Indo-Islamic architecture and was the summer residence of the Mysorean ruler Tipu Sultan. Hyder Ali commenced its construction within the walls of the Bangalore Fort in 1781, and it was completed during the reign of Tipu Sultan 10 years later in 1791.
1.4 km · building in India · Wikipedia - 10Bengaluru Football Stadium
The Bangalore Football Stadium is a football stadium in Bengaluru, Karnataka. It has served as a venue in three editions of the I-League, then top-tier football league in the country.
3.7 km · building in India · Wikipedia
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 Chickpet
- Airports
- Kempegowda Bengaluru (BLR), 29 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 224 km · Tirupati (TIR), 225 km
- Stations
- Krantivira Sangolli Rayanna railway station, 1.2 km · MG Road metro station, 3.2 km · Bengaluru Cantt railway station, 3.4 km · Kempegowda Bus Station, 700 m · Majestic metro station, 600 m
- Coimbatore → Chickpet228 km · quickest by road, 5h 37m · ₹2,160–2,710
- Tirupati → Chickpet213 km · quickest by road, 4h 17m · ₹1,590–1,990
- Kannur → Chickpet270 km · quickest by road, 5h 57m · ₹2,050–2,560
- 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 Chickpet
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 Chickpet. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inShatabdi - superfast fully air-conditioned day trip trains which connect Mysore and Bangalore with Chennai Jan Shatabdi- Superfast with AC and Non-AC Reserved Accommodation, the fastest connection between Hubli and Bangalore Bangalore is well connected to the metro cities of Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, and major other Capital cities across the country.
- Get aroundTravel agents provide tickets as well as private package tours for various destinations across Karnataka.
From Wikivoyage: Karnataka, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Chickpet
Chickpet is 2 km from Bengaluru, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Bengalurucapital city of Karnataka state in India1.7 km
- Bengaluru Urban districtdistrict of Karnataka, India1.8 km
- Basavanagudisuburb of Bangalore, India3.6 km
- Adagodivillage in Karnataka, India1.9 km
- Malleswaramsuburb of Bangalore, India3.7 km
- Shivajinagarsuburb of Bangalore3.8 km