Katugastota
Katugastota is a suburb of the city of Kandy in Kandy District, Central Province of Sri Lanka.
Katugastota is a suburb of the city of Kandy in Kandy District, Central Province of Sri Lanka. It is located along the Kandy-Jaffna A9 highway approximately 4 km (2.5 mi) from the city center of Kandy. Katugastota is one of the three main entry points to the city of Kandy. Two major Highways meet at the center of the city which makes Katugastota one of the busiest suburbs in Kandy district.
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Getting to Katugastota
- Airports
- Bandaranaike International Colombo (CMB), 83 km · Colombo Ratmalana (RML), 99 km · Jaffna (JAF), 280 km
- Colombo → Katugastota96 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · Rs1,120–1,500
- Jaffna → Katugastota270 km · quickest by road, 7h 29m · Rs2,950–3,930
- Thiruvananthapuram → Katugastota425 km · quickest by air, 8h 20m · ₹14,710–22,450
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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 Katugastota
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 Katugastota. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe train line goes further to Badulla, passing on its way Nuwara Eliya (Nanu Oya station from where one needs to take a short bus or tuk-tuk ride to Nuwara Eliya proper), Haputale and Ella.
- Get inIf you are in Negombo you will have to take some bus, taxi or tuk-tuk to some of the cities where the Main Line train goes to Kandy: Ragama, Gampaha or Veyangoda, on the trip you will see the Bible Rock, which resembles the more famous Sigiriya citadel.
- Get inWhen you arrive, watch out for the tuk-tuk mafia at the railway station.
- Get inIt is better catch a tuk-tuk some distance from the station, or even better use Uber, PickMe or the like (again, some distance from the railway station tuk-tuk stand, as otherwise the tuk-tuk mafia there will threaten and chase your driver away).
- Get inWalk or take a tuktuk to the bus terminal, where the friendly locals will direct you to the bus to Kandy, 3½ hr, Rs 150 (as of Jan 2013).
From Wikivoyage: Kandy, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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