Shobhabazar – Hatibagan pandal hopping route 2026
উত্তর কলকাতা পুজো পরিক্রমা ২০২৬ · Shobhabazar – Hatibagan
North Kolkata · pandal list of 18 · about 1 h 28 min walking (7.5 km) end to end
Shobhabazar Rajbari bonedi puja, Hatibagan crossing lanes (Nalin Sarkar St and neighbours), Kashi Bose Lane near Hedua. Also searched as Sovabazar, Shyambazar, Hatibagan, Hedua.
This is the Shobhabazar – Hatibagan 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 Shobhabazar Rajbari (Raja Nabakrishna Deb), Nalin Sarkar Street Sarbojanin.
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 Shobhabazar – Hatibagan routeOpen this route map in Google Maps (from Shobhabazar Sutanuti Metro; Google shows the first nine stops)
Pandal list and walking order
- 🚶 1 min · 80 m
- 🚶 7 min · 540 m
- 🚶 10 min · 860 m4Sikdar Bagan Sadharan Durgotsav
Shyambazar · theme puja with a traditional idol · peak queue ~10 min
- 🚶 1 min · 120 m
- 🚶 2 min · 200 m
- 🚶 1 min · 90 m
- 🚶 3 min · 270 m
- 🚶 2 min · 200 m
- 🚶 5 min · 410 m
- 🚶 5 min · 430 m11Gouribari Sarbojanin Durgotsab O Pradarshani
Gouribari · theme puja with a traditional idol · no real queue
- 🚶 10 min · 850 m
- 🚶 16 min · 1.4 km
- 🚶 4 min · 350 m
- 🚶 5 min · 400 m
- 🚶 3 min · 270 m
- 🚶 1 min · 50 m
- 🚶 12 min · 990 m
Nearest metro stations
- Shobhabazar Sutanuti Metro: Shobhabazar Rajbari (Raja Nabakrishna Deb) (~3 min), Shobhabazar Rajbari, south house (Rajkrishna Deb) (~3 min), Jagat Mukherjee Park Sadharan Durgotsab (~7 min), Hatibagan Sarbojanin (~12 min)
- Shyambazar Metro: Sikdar Bagan Sadharan Durgotsav (~9 min), Mohanbagan Barwari (~8 min), Hatibagan Nabin Pally Sarbojanin (~10 min), Nalin Sarkar Street Sarbojanin (~11 min)
- Girish Park Metro: Beadon Street Sarbojanin (~9 min), Chhatu Babu Latu Babu Bari (Ramdulal Nibas) (~6 min), Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (Sonagachi) (~8 min), Darjipara Mitra Bari (~8 min)
Food, toilets and sights in Shobhabazar – Hatibagan
Public toilets and water
- Pay toilet, Bidhan Sarani at Hemendra Sen Street (Hatibagan) · Pay toilet just south of Hatibagan crossing on Bidhan Sarani; basic, cash only
Where to eat and drink
- National Economic Restaurant (Shyambazar) · Tea and half-pound bread with butter toast from 7.30 am, a century-old breakfast room off the five-point; prices start at Rs 10
- Adi Haridas Modak (Shyambazar) · 250-year-old sweet shop at the five-point: kochuri with aloo torkari, kalojam, chhanar jilipi
- Allen Kitchen (Shobhabazar) · Prawn cutlet fried in ghee is the one thing to order; tiny counter, mostly takeaway
- Bhojohori Manna (Hatibagan) · Sit-down Bengali meal beside Star Theatre: kosha mangsho, daab chingri, mutton dakbungalow; branch of the Ekdalia original
- Chittaranjan Mistanna Bhandar (Shyambazar Street) · The rosogolla specialist since 1907, one of the GI-certified shops; also kalakand and sandesh, no seating
- Dilruba (Hatibagan) · Old cabin-style Mughlai at Hatibagan crossing: mutton kabiraji, chaap, biryani; AC and non-AC rooms
- Dwarik's Grandsons (Shyambazar) · Main shop of the 1885 sweet house near the Shyambazar five-point; mishti doi and sandesh
- Girish Ch. Dey & Nakur Ch. Nandy (Hedua) · Dry sandesh since 1844: jolbhora, monohora, malai roll; no seating, buy a box for the walk
- Golbari / New Punjabi Hotel (Shyambazar) · Kosha mangsho with porota, the Shyambazar classic since the 1920s; the curved building at the five-point
- Lakshmi Narayan Shaw & Sons (Netaji's telebhaja shop) · Telebhaja since 1918: aamer chop in season, beguni, phuluri, aloo chop; Netaji's old haunt, eat standing
- Mitra Cafe (Shobhabazar) · Fish kabiraji and brain chop since 1920; right at Shobhabazar metro, opposite gate 5
Worth a look on the way
- Bethune College (1879) · India's oldest women's college, facing Hedua tank; the colonnaded 19th-century facade on Bidhan Sarani is the thing to see
- Hatibagan crossing and the Bidhan Sarani shopping-and-chop strip · Puja-shopping heartland: pavement stalls, saree shops and the telebhaja (aloo chop, beguni, fuluri) counters along Bidhan Sarani between Hatibagan and Shyambazar
- Hedua Park (Azad Hind Bag) and tank · The big tank and park at Hedua More, between Bethune and Scottish Church colleges; the park itself hosts a puja and the lit tank is a good breather
- Netaji statue, Shyambazar five-point crossing · The 1969 equestrian Netaji on the island where five roads meet: the landmark everyone navigates by; lit up and ringed by Puja crowds
- Scottish Church College (1830) · Vivekananda and Netaji's college; the 1830s neo-classical main building and Duff Church are opposite Hedua Park on Urquhart Square
- Star Theatre (Hatibagan) · The 1883 playhouse of Girish Ghosh and Binodini, where Ramakrishna watched her play Chaitanya; now a cinema, the lit facade is right at Hatibagan crossing
Shobhabazar – Hatibagan: questions people ask
- How many pandals can I see in Shobhabazar – Hatibagan in one evening?
- 18 curated pandals sit within the Shobhabazar – Hatibagan circuit, about 1 h 28 min of walking end to end. With queues of 5 to 25 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 Shobhabazar – Hatibagan?
- Shobhabazar Sutanuti Metro: Shobhabazar Rajbari (Raja Nabakrishna Deb) is about 3 minutes' walk from it. Other stations serving the area: Shyambazar Metro, Girish Park Metro.
- Which are the famous or best pandals in Shobhabazar – Hatibagan?
- The famous pujas here, the ones with citywide crowds, are Shobhabazar Rajbari (Raja Nabakrishna Deb), Nalin Sarkar Street Sarbojanin. 16 more neighbourhood pujas sit along the same lanes and are usually quicker to get into.
- Is there a Shobhabazar – Hatibagan 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 Shobhabazar – Hatibagan?
- Pay toilet, Bidhan Sarani at Hemendra Sen Street (Hatibagan). Metro stations on the way have toilets inside the paid area.