Egmore
Egmore is a neighbourhood of Chennai, India situated about 2.0 kilometres from kilometre zero of Chennai city.
Egmore is a neighbourhood of Chennai, India situated about 2.0 kilometres from kilometre zero of Chennai city. Lying on a peninsular bulge on the northern banks of the Cooum River, apart from being an important transportation and tourism hub as well as shopping district, Egmore also has residential colonies. The Egmore Railway Station was formerly the main terminus of the South Indian Railway Company and later, the metre gauge section and still an important station of Southern division of the Indian Railways and one of the two main railway terminii of Chennai city, the other being the Chennai Central railway station. The Government Museum, Chennai situated at Egmore is the second oldest museum in India and one of the largest in the country. Tamil Nadu Archives and Historical Research, the official archival facility of the Tamil Nadu government, is also situated in Egmore.
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Worth seeing in and around Egmore
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.
- 01University of Madras
The University of Madras is a public state university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Established in 1857, it is one of the oldest and most prominent universities in India, incorporated by an act of the Legislative Council of India under the British government.
2.5 km · state public university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia - 02Fort St. George
Fort St. George is a fortress at the coastal city of Chennai, India.
2.9 km · fort in Chennai, India · Wikipedia - 03M. A. Chidambaram Stadium
M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, commonly known as the Chepauk Stadium, is a cricket stadium in Chepauk, Chennai. It is named after M. A. Chidambaram, a former president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, and managed by the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association.
2.3 km · cricket stadium · Wikipedia - 04Marina Beach
Marina Beach, or simply the Marina, is a natural urban beach in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, along the Bay of Bengal. The beach runs from near Fort St.
3.3 km · longest beach of India · Wikipedia - 05Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Chennai
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The stadium is located at Sydenhams road in Park Town, besides the Chennai Central suburban railway station.
1.8 km · Multipurpose stadium in Chennai, India · Wikipedia - 06Madras Observatory
The Madras Observatory was an astronomical observatory which had its origins in a private observatory set up by William Petrie in 1786 and later moved and managed by the British East India Company from 1792 in Madras. The main purpose for establishing it was to assist in navigation and mapping by recording the latitude and maintaining time standards.
1.6 km · observatory · Wikipedia - 07Presidency College
Presidency College is an art, commerce, and science college in the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India. On 16 October 1840, this school was established as the Madras Preparatory School before being repurposed as a high school, and then a graduate college.
2.7 km · arts, law and science college in the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia - 08Parthasarathy Temple
The Parthasarathy Temple is a 6th-century Hindu Vaishnavite temple dedicated to Vishnu in Chennai, India. Located in the neighbourhood of Thiruvallikeni, the temple is glorified in the Naalayira Divya Prabandham, the early medieval Tamil literature canon of the Alvar saints from the 6th to 9th centuries CE and is classified as among the 108 Divya Desams dedicated to Vishnu.
2.7 km · temple in India · Wikipedia - 09Government Museum, Chennai
The Government Museum, Chennai, or the Madras Museum, is a museum of human history and culture located in the Government Museum Complex in the neighbourhood of Egmore in Chennai, India. Started in 1851, it is the second oldest museum in India after the Indian Museum in Kolkata.
500 m · museum of human history and culture in India · Wikipedia - 10Thousand Lights Mosque
The Thousand Lights Mosque is a Shi'ite mosque in Anna Salai in Chennai, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the largest mosques in the country and is a revered place of worship and azadari for Shia Muslims.
2.1 km · mosque in India · Wikipedia
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Getting to Egmore
- Airports
- Chennai (MAA), 14 km · Tirupati (TIR), 100 km · Kempegowda Bengaluru (BLR), 277 km
- Stations
- Chennai Port, 3.4 km · Chennai Egmore railway station, 500 m · Chennai Beach railway station, 3.8 km · Nungambakkam railway station, 3.2 km · Chennai Central, 1.6 km
- Tirupati → Egmore110 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · ₹880–1,110
- Bengaluru → Egmore289 km · quickest by road, 5h 1m · ₹2,110–2,640
- Tiruchirappalli → Egmore303 km · quickest by road, 5h 15m · ₹2,110–2,640
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Egmore
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 Egmore. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe two terminals are near each other, and it is better to tell your exact destination to the taxi/auto-rickshaw driver.
- Get inThe two terminals are near each other, and it is better to tell your exact destination to the taxi/auto-rickshaw driver.
- Get aroundThe fares of Chennai auto-rickshaws have been an enormous political topic for many years and have contributed to the perception that the city's auto-rickshaw drivers never use meters and continually fleece passengers.
- Get aroundHowever, despite the reputation, trips by auto rickshaw actually are quick, but rarely based on the metered price.
- Get aroundAuto rickshaw meters are being outfitted with GPS and electronic digital receipt printers.
From Wikivoyage: Chennai, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Egmore
Egmore is 3 km from Chennai, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Chennaicity and state capital of Tamil Nadu, India1.8 km
- Chennai districtdistrict of Tamil Nadu, India1.5 km
- Chennai metropolitan areaMetropolitan planning area of capital Chennai city, Tamil Nadu, India1.5 km
- Chennai Suburban Railwaycommuter rail system in the city of Chennai, India1.8 km
- Chepauksuburb of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India2.5 km
- TriplicaneNeighbourhood in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India2.9 km