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Raja Nagar

Raja Nagar is a residential township in Chennai, India.

Raja Nagar
Raja Nagar · Timothy A. Gonsalves
The place

Raja Nagar is a residential township in Chennai, India. It is located in Neelangarai, a suburb of Chennai, situated about six kilometers from the city center of Adyar.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Raja Nagar

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.

  1. 01
    ISKCON Temple Chennai

    ISKCON Temple Chennai, also known as the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Mandir, is a Gaudiya Vaishnavism temple in Chennai, India. The temple is dedicated to the Hindu god Krishna and his consort Radha.

    4.2 km · Vaishnava temple in Chennai, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Buckingham Canal

    The Buckingham Canal is a 796 kilometres -long brackish-water navigation canal system running roughly parallel to the Coromandel Coast of South India, from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh to Marakkanam in Tamil Nadu. It links a chain of coastal backwaters and waterways and passes through Chennai.

    4.8 km · canal that runs in Andhra Pradesh and Tamilnadu in India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Marundeeswarar Temple

    Marundeeswarar Temple is a temple dedicated to Hindu deity Shiva, located in Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai adjacent to the beach of Bay of Bengal. It is one of the 275 Paadal Petra Sthalams where two of the most revered Nayanars, Appar and Tirugnana Sambandar, have glorified the temple with their verses during the 7th century CE. The temple has been widely expanded by Chola kings during the 11th century CE. The temple has two seven-tiered gateway towers, a huge tank, with the overall temple area covering 1 acre.

    4.9 km · Hindu temple in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Ashtalakshmi Kovil

    The Ashtalakshmi Kovil is a Hindu temple, which lies on the shorelines near the Elliot's beach, in Chennai, India. The temple is dedicated to the goddess Lakshmi, and her eight primary forms – the Ashtalakshmi – the giver of all eight forms of wealth, namely, offspring, success, prosperity, wealth, courage, bravery, food, and knowledge.

    5.9 km · Hindu temple of Ashtalakshmi in Chennai, India · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    TIDEL Park, Chennai

    TIDEL Park is an information technology park in Chennai, India. It is located on Rajiv Gandhi Salai in the southern locality of Taramani.

    5.3 km · Tech Park in Chennai, India · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Golden Beach

    Golden Beach is a natural urban beach located along the Bay of Bengal in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. VGP Golden Beach is a major tourist attraction in Chennai.

    3.2 km · beach on the Bay of Bengal in Chennai, India · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Chemplast Cricket Ground

    The Chemplast Cricket Ground or Indian Institute of Technology Chemplast Ground is a cricket ground within the IIT Madras campus, in Velachery, Chennai. The ground is an important cricket venue in Chennai, and used for practice sessions by the Indian national cricket team.

    6 km · Cricket ground on the campus of IIT Madras · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University

    Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University is a public state university established in 1997 at Chennai, India by the Government of Tamil Nadu under The Tamil Nadu Dr.

    4.1 km · state public university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Jerusalem College of Engineering, Chennai

    Jerusalem College of Engineering is an autonomous engineering college located in Chennai, India, established in the 1995. The college is part of the Jerusalem Educational Trust, which was formed and registered in 1993.

    5.1 km · engineering college in Tamil Nadu, India · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    International Tech Park, Chennai

    The International Tech Park Chennai, Taramani or ITPC is an hi-tech park in Taramani, Chennai. Located in Chennai's IT Corridor, it spans 15 acres, offering approximately 2 million sq ft of office space.

    5 km · technology park in south India · Wikipedia

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Getting to Raja Nagar

Airports
Chennai (MAA), 11 km · Tirupati (TIR), 109 km · Kempegowda Bengaluru (BLR), 277 km
Stations
Velachery railway station, 4.7 km · Thiruvanmiyur railway station, 5.3 km · Perungudi railway station, 4.5 km · Taramani railway station, 4.3 km · Sholinganallur metro station, 5.4 km
  • Tirupati → Raja Nagar
    339 km · quickest by road, 6h 38m · ₹2,720–3,400
  • Bengaluru → Raja Nagar
    382 km · quickest by road, 7h 31m · ₹2,810–3,520
  • Tiruchirappalli → Raja Nagar
    623 km · quickest by road, 11h 58m · ₹4,840–6,050
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Not yet researched

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

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

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    448 km
  2. 02
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    451 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    463 km
  4. 04
    NelliyampathyIN

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    472 km
  5. 05
    HampiIN

    8 ways of moving, 18 sources

    488 km

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Around it

Next door to Raja Nagar

Raja Nagar is 16 km from Chennai, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.