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Ganeshguri

Ganeshguri is a locality in Guwahati, Assam, India, and is named after lord Ganesh.

Ganeshguri
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The place

Ganeshguri is a locality in Guwahati, Assam, India, and is named after lord Ganesh. There is also a Ganesh Temple located in its southern part. The region was ruled by a chief who styled himself as Herambadhipati in the late 16th century. An inscription mentions that the ruler named Dununtrarāi donated a tank in Pragjyotishpura in the year 1577 A.D.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Ganeshguri

Airports
Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (GAU), 20 km · Osmany (ZYL), 132 km · Bir Tikendrajit (IMF), 263 km
  • Imphal → Ganeshguri
    263 km · quickest by air, 4h 34m · ₹4,910–7,510
  • Siliguri → Ganeshguri
    340 km · quickest by air, 4h 38m · ₹5,350–8,200
  • Kolkata → Ganeshguri
    528 km · quickest by air, 5h 6m · ₹6,590–10,100
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ganeshguri

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 Ganeshguri. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe hill stations of Shillong and Tura are connected by scheduled helicopter services run by Pawan Hans.
  • Get aroundIf you can not go on the river cruise, at least cross the river on the ferry.
  • Get aroundFerries provide transport to the local people - they leave the jetty at Fancy Bazar every half an hour and the round trip will take around 45 minutes.
  • Go nextMeghalaya state transport provides several buses departing in the morning and also regular shared 7-passenger jeep service for ₹170 (more comfortable than the usual 10-pax Sumo) from the bus terminal south of the train station.

From Wikivoyage: Guwahati, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    97 km
  2. 02
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    110 km
  3. 03
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    159 km
  4. 04
    MajuliIN

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    245 km
  5. 05
    ViswemaIN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    245 km

If you know how people move in Ganeshguri – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Ganeshguri

Ganeshguri is 5 km from Guwahati, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.