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Worth seeing in and around Mathur

3 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
    Madhavaram botanical garden

    Madhavaram Botanical Garden is a botanical garden in Chennai, India, set up by the horticulture department of the Government of Tamil Nadu. The garden, the second botanical garden in Chennai after the Semmozhi Poonga, is the largest botanical garden in the city.

    2.5 km · botanical garden in Chennai, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Mathur MMDA Park

    Mathur MMDA Park, is an urban park in the neighbourhood of Mathur MMDA, Chennai.

    200 m · park in Mathur, India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University

    Tamil Nadu University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences is a veterinary university founded in 1989 in Madhavaram Milk Colony, Chennai, India. It is composed of the Madras Veterinary College, Vepery, Veterinary College and Research Institute, Namakkal, Veterinary College and Research Institute, Tirunelveli; Veterinary College and Research Institute, Orathanadu, Thanjavur and the Institute of Food and Dairy Technology, Koduvalli, Chennai-52.

    1 km · state public university in Thiruvallur, Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia

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Getting to Mathur

Airports
Chennai (MAA), 22 km · Tirupati (TIR), 92 km · Kempegowda Bengaluru (BLR), 275 km
Stations
Madhavaram Depot metro station, 1.9 km
  • Tirupati → Mathur
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · ₹820–1,020
  • Bengaluru → Mathur
    288 km · quickest by road, 5h 9m · ₹2,160–2,710
  • Tiruchirappalli → Mathur
    312 km · quickest by road, 5h 22m · ₹2,160–2,710
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mathur

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    465 km
  2. 02
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    468 km
  3. 03
    HampiIN

    8 ways of moving, 18 sources

    474 km
  4. 04
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    481 km
  5. 05
    NelliyampathyIN

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    486 km

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Mathur is 10 km from Chennai, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.