Virār
Virar is a coastal city in the Palghar district, Maharashtra, India.
Virar is a coastal city in the Palghar district, Maharashtra, India. The northern third of the city of Vasai-Virar, is administered by the Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation. It lies to the south of the Palghar district, and to the north of the city of Mumbai. It is an important part of the Palghar District because it forms the outermost part on the northern side of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region and comes under the police jurisdiction of Mira-Bhayander, Vasai-Virar Police Commissionerate.
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Worth seeing in and around Virār
One place 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.
- 01Arnala Fort
Arnala Fort is built on a small island off the port town of Arnala, located around 13 km north of Vasai, Maharashtra, India. Being an island fort, it is also called Jaldurg or Janjire-Arnala.
7.1 km · fort in India · Wikipedia
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Where to eat
Bananas are the most famous in Vasai-Virar, and would be worth trying a few. They are as cheap as 5 to 10 cents Chicken Bujing, is one of the famous dishes of Vasai (fried poha, fried potatoes, chicken with lots of ingredients in it). Wada pav of Tungareshwar is a local fast food shop. Indyal, Teprat and Sarpatal.
From Wikivoyage: Virār, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Virār
- Airports
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj (BOM), 43 km · Navi Mumbai (NMI), 61 km · Nashik (ISK), 137 km
- Stations
- Vaitarna railway station, 7.4 km · Nalla Sopara railway station, 6.1 km · Virar railway station, 2.1 km
- Mumbai → Virār43 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · ₹395–495
- Navi Mumbai → Virār51 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · ₹440–550
- Nashik → Virār119 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · ₹1,110–1,380
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No local-transport research exists yet for Virār
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 Virār. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Virār is 19 km from Bhayandar, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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