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Pilakkad

Pilakkad is a village in Thrissur district in the state of Kerala, India.

The place

Pilakkad is a village in Thrissur district in the state of Kerala, India.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pilakkad

4 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
    Thiru Aarattu Madannada, Mylakkadu

    Thiru Aarattu Madannada is a temple dedicated to Shiva in Kollam district, in Kerala in the peninsular India. The temple is situated in Mylakkadu.

    600 m · Hindu temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Vilappuram Bhagavathy Temple

    Vilappuram Bhagavathy Temple is a small temple, home of the famous Vilappuram Devi Temple situated in Chathannoor, Kollam, Kerala, in the peninsular India. In the same compound, there is the famous Anandavilasam library, affiliated to Kerala State Library Council, having more than 1,200 members and around 13,000 books.

    2.8 km · Hindu temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Chathannoor Sree Bhoothanatha Temple

    Sree Bhoothanatha Temple & Meenadu Sastha temple is one of the well-known temples in Chathannoor neighbourhood of Kollam in Kerala in the peninsular India. One of the largest of its type in Kollam, the Nedum Kuthira of Chathannoor Sree Bhoothanatha Temple and Meenadu Sastha temple is held during the festival.

    1.8 km · Hindu temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Kanjiramvila Bhagavathi Temple

    Kanjiramvila Bhagavathi Temple is a Hindu pilgrim place and also a tourist centre situated in Chathannoor, Kollam, in the Kerala State of India. Many foreigners visit this temple on the occasion of Gajamela.

    1.5 km · Hindu temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia

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Getting to Pilakkad

Airports
Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 49 km · Cochin (COK), 147 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 243 km
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Pilakkad
    263 km · quickest by road, 6h 22m · ₹2,020–2,520
  • Kochi → Pilakkad
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · ₹750–930
  • Coimbatore → Pilakkad
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · ₹750–940
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pilakkad

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 Pilakkad. 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

    81 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    92 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    142 km
  4. 04
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    159 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    159 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pilakkad

Pilakkad is 13 km from Kollam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.