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Kappil, Thiruvananthapuram

Kappil is a seashore tourist spot located in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala, India.

Kappil, Thiruvananthapuram
Kappil, Thiruvananthapuram · Ajithpithu (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The place

Kappil is a seashore tourist spot located in Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala, India. Varkala Sivagiri railway station is the major railway station near Kappil.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kappil, Thiruvananthapuram

2 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.

  1. 01
    Puttingal Temple

    Puttingal Temple is a Hindu temple in the coastal town of Paravur, India. The temple was founded after the presence of the goddess was experienced on an ant hill with Puttu being the Malayalam word for ant hill.

    3.8 km · Hindu temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Palakkavu Bhagavathi temple

    The Edava Palakkavu Bhagavathi temple is one of the ancient temples in south India. It is situated at Edava in Thiruvananthapuram District, India.

    2.2 km · Ancient Temple in South 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.

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Getting to Kappil, Thiruvananthapuram

Airports
Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 43 km · Cochin (COK), 155 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 253 km
Stations
Edavai railway station, 3 km · Kappil Railway Station, 300 m
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Kappil, Thiruvananthapuram
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · ₹325–405
  • Kochi → Kappil, Thiruvananthapuram
    137 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · ₹1,010–1,260
  • Coimbatore → Kappil, Thiruvananthapuram
    249 km · quickest by road, 6h 43m · ₹2,180–2,730
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kappil, Thiruvananthapuram

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Varkala Railway Station, Taxis and Auto Rickshaws can be hired.

From Wikivoyage: Edava, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    GaviIN

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    91 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    101 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    152 km
  4. 04
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    168 km
  5. 05
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    169 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kappil, Thiruvananthapuram

Kappil, Thiruvananthapuram is 15 km from Kollam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.