Bagbazar – Kumartuli – Ahiritola pandal hopping route 2026
উত্তর কলকাতা পুজো পরিক্রমা ২০২৬ · Bagbazar – Kumartuli – Ahiritola
North Kolkata · pandal list of 14 · about 1 h 24 min walking (7.0 km) end to end
Riverside belt along Rabindra Sarani: Bagbazar heritage puja, the idol-makers' quarter, Ahiritola. Also searched as Baghbazar, Kumortuli, Ahiritola.
This is the Bagbazar – Kumartuli – Ahiritola Durga Puja pandal list for 2026 (Puja runs 17 to 21 October) as a walkable route in north Kolkata: the famous pujas and the neighbourhood ones on the same lanes, with the nearest metro station, peak queues, a route map link, and the food and toilets on the way. The headline pandals here are Kumartuli Sarbojanin, Bagbazar Sarbojanin Durgotsav.
The order below starts at the pandal nearest a metro station (Shobhabazar Sutanuti Metro) and always walks to the closest pandal next, with walking minutes measured on OpenStreetMap streets. It is a readable default, not a plan: the planner reorders stops around your time, queues and what you want to see, and skips the ones that would not fit.
Plan tonight's Bagbazar – Kumartuli – Ahiritola routeOpen this route map in Google Maps (from Shobhabazar Sutanuti Metro; Google shows the first nine stops)
Pandal list and walking order
- 🚶 4 min · 370 m
- 🚶 3 min · 260 m
- 🚶 4 min · 330 m
- 🚶 6 min · 510 m
- 🚶 5 min · 390 m
- 🚶 9 min · 730 m
- 🚶 5 min · 450 m
- 🚶 23 min · 1.9 km9Rabindra Kanan Sarbojanin (Beadon Square)
Beadon Street · theme puja with a traditional idol · no real queue
- 🚶 6 min · 480 m
- 🚶 2 min · 140 m
- 🚶 5 min · 440 m
- 🚶 10 min · 820 m
- 🚶 2 min · 200 m
Nearest metro stations
- Shobhabazar Sutanuti Metro: Amrita Lal Daw Bari (Daw Lane) (~7 min), Ahiritola Jubak Brinda (~10 min), Ahiritola Sarbojanin (~14 min), Adharlal Sen Bari (Beniatola) (~11 min)
- Shyambazar Metro: Baghbazar Pally Puja O Pradarshani (~9 min), Bagbazar Sarbojanin Durgotsav (~13 min)
- Girish Park Metro: Rabindra Kanan Sarbojanin (Beadon Square) (~8 min), Pathuriaghata Pancher Pally Sarbojanin (~10 min), Khelat Ghosh Bari (Pathuriaghata) (~12 min), Baishnab Das Mullick Bari (~16 min)
Food, toilets and sights in Bagbazar – Kumartuli – Ahiritola
Where to eat and drink
- Bholanath Cabin (Bagbazar) · Old Bagbazar cabin on Girish Avenue for kochuri with aloo dum in the morning and chops later
- Nalin Chandra Das & Sons (Natun Bazar, Jorasanko) · Sweet shop since 1841 inside Natun Bazar off Rabindra Sarani; the jalbhara sandesh is the thing to buy
Worth a look on the way
- Ahiritola Ghat · Old bathing ghat and ferry point on the Hooghly, 400 m west of Ahiritola Sarbojanin; one of the main idol-immersion ghats on Dashami
- Bagbazar Ghat (launch ghat) · The riverside end of Bagbazar Street: ferry jetty, evening breeze and the Howrah-side lights; crowded with immersions on Dashami
- Bagbazar Sarbojanin mela (puja-week fair) · The fair fills the ground around the ekchala idol all Puja week: rides, stalls and food; come before 7 pm if you want to move
- Bishnuram Chakraborty's 18th-century temples · A cluster of small 18th-century aat-chala Shiva temples at the corner by Bagbazar ground; a two-minute look while passing
- Girish Chandra Ghosh's house (Girish Avenue island) · The old house left standing in the middle of Girish Avenue when the road was cut in the 1930s is the playwright Girish Ghosh's home, with his statue
- Girish Mancha (theatre) · The state theatre named after Girish Ghosh, father of the Bengali stage; often has Puja-week shows, worth a glance at the building
- Kumartuli potters' lanes (Banamali Sarkar Street) · Walk the lane west off Rabindra Sarani to see idols being finished in the kumor workshops; busiest and lit until about midnight
- Madan Mohan Tala temple (Gokul Mitra, 1761) · Gokul Mitra's 18th-century Madan Mohan temple-palace: look up at the Doric pillars and the Jhulan dalan on the lane east of Rabindra Sarani
- Minerva Theatre (Beadon Street) · The 1893 theatre on the site of the Great National Theatre, where Girish Ghosh gave his last performance; restored, with a lit heritage facade on Beadon Street
- Nimtala Ghat and Rabindranath Tagore memorial · Kolkata's oldest burning ghat (1827), where Tagore was cremated in 1941; the memorial garden is at the gate on Nimtala Ghat Street, with Howrah Bridge views
- Tagore Castle (Pathuriaghata) · Jatindramohan Tagore's 1896 mock-Gothic castle with a Windsor-style clock tower, now hemmed in by shops; look up from Prasanna Kumar Tagore Street
Bagbazar – Kumartuli – Ahiritola: questions people ask
- How many pandals can I see in Bagbazar – Kumartuli – Ahiritola in one evening?
- 14 curated pandals sit within the Bagbazar – Kumartuli – Ahiritola circuit, about 1 h 24 min of walking end to end. With queues of 5 to 20 minutes at the gates on Puja evenings, four to six pandals in three hours is realistic; the planner fits the number to your time.
- Which metro station is best for Bagbazar – Kumartuli – Ahiritola?
- Shobhabazar Sutanuti Metro: Amrita Lal Daw Bari (Daw Lane) is about 7 minutes' walk from it. Other stations serving the area: Shyambazar Metro, Girish Park Metro.
- Which are the famous or best pandals in Bagbazar – Kumartuli – Ahiritola?
- The famous pujas here, the ones with citywide crowds, are Kumartuli Sarbojanin, Bagbazar Sarbojanin Durgotsav. 12 more neighbourhood pujas sit along the same lanes and are usually quicker to get into.
- Is there a Bagbazar – Kumartuli – Ahiritola Durga Puja route map?
- Yes: the "Open this route map in Google Maps" link above draws the walking order from Shobhabazar Sutanuti Metro through the pandals, and the planner on the home page builds a route from wherever you are standing, fitted to the hours you have.
- Where are the public toilets in Bagbazar – Kumartuli – Ahiritola?
- No public toilet is pinned in this area yet; metro stations on the way have toilets inside the paid area, and big pandals set up bio-toilets during the Puja days.