Kotikawatta
Worth seeing in and around Kotikawatta
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.
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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 Kotikawatta
- Airports
- Colombo Ratmalana (RML), 12 km · Bandaranaike International Colombo (CMB), 28 km
- Stations
- Maradana Railway Station, 4.9 km
- Jaffna → Kotikawatta305 km · quickest by air, 5h 12m · Rs17,670–27,390
- Thiruvananthapuram → Kotikawatta369 km · quickest by air, 5h 47m · ₹11,400–17,650
- Tiruchirappalli → Kotikawatta452 km · quickest by air, 6h 7m · ₹12,150–18,800
- 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 Kotikawatta
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 Kotikawatta. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIt can also handle international charter flights.
- Get inYou can also take a tri-shaw aka tuk-tuk from the bus depot (get there by free airport shuttle bus), it takes a bit more than an hour and is Rs 2,500 (2024) from airport to Galle Road.
- Get inTake either the free airport shuttle to the bus station and then follow the road (Canada Friendship) to the Katunayaka South station (nearly 2 km, if you don't have luggage) otherwise just to take a tuk tuk right from the airport to the train station.
- Get aroundGetting around by Tri-shaw (Three wheeler, tuk-tuk) is most convenient.
- Get aroundBut it's best to hail a meter taxi (identified by the words "Meter Taxi" on its windshield) that is traveling in the direction that you need to go instead of hiring one from the parking area or the tuk-tuk stand.
From Wikivoyage: Colombo, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Kotikawatta – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Kotikawatta
Kotikawatta is 7 km from Colombo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Colombolargest city and de facto capital of Sri Lanka5.4 km
- Kolonnawahuman settlement1.6 km
- Kelaniyasuburb in Western Province, Sri Lanka3.4 km
- Peliyagodasuburb in Western Province, Sri Lanka5.1 km
- Battaramullasuburb of the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka3 km
- Mulleriyawacity in Colombo, Sri Lanka2.7 km