Gariahat – Ballygunge pandal hopping route 2026
দক্ষিণ কলকাতা পুজো পরিক্রমা ২০২৬ · Gariahat – Ballygunge
South Kolkata · pandal list of 19 · about 3 h 10 min walking (15.7 km) end to end
Ekdalia, Singhi Park, Hindusthan Park and Club, Tridhara, Deshapriya Park; Bosepukur (Kasba) is ~1.8 km east across the railway. Also searched as Gariahat, Ballygunge, Hindustan Park, Ekdalia, Kasba, Deshapriya Park.
This is the Gariahat – Ballygunge Durga Puja pandal list for 2026 (Puja runs 17 to 21 October) as a walkable route in south 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 Deshapriya Park Sarbojanin, Singhi Park Sarbojanin, Ekdalia Evergreen Club, Maddox Square (Ballygunge Durga Puja Samity).
The order below starts at the pandal nearest a metro station (Jatin Das Park 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 Gariahat – Ballygunge routeOpen this route map in Google Maps (from Jatin Das Park Metro; Google shows the first nine stops)
Pandal list and walking order
- 1Monohar Pukur Baisakhi Sangha
Manoharpukur / Kalighat · theme puja with a traditional idol · no real queue
- 🚶 9 min · 750 m
- 🚶 5 min · 440 m3Deshapriya Park Sarbojanin
Deshapriya Park · theme puja with a traditional idol · peak queue ~45 min
- 🚶 13 min · 1.1 km
- 🚶 5 min · 420 m
- 🚶 7 min · 550 m
- 🚶 4 min · 360 m
- 🚶 2 min · 200 m
- 🚶 11 min · 910 m
- 🚶 19 min · 1.6 km
- 🚶 6 min · 480 m
- 🚶 6 min · 500 m12Westend Park Sarbojanin (Kamala Park)
Kasba / Ruby Park · theme puja with a traditional idol · no real queue
- 🚶 17 min · 1.4 km
- 🚶 3 min · 240 m
- 🚶 11 min · 880 m
- 🚶 41 min · 3.4 km
- 🚶 8 min · 690 m
- 🚶 17 min · 1.4 km18Ballygunge Pally Sarbojanin (Dover Road)
Ballygunge · theme puja with a traditional idol · no real queue
- 🚶 6 min · 500 m
Nearest metro stations
- Jatin Das Park Metro: Monohar Pukur Baisakhi Sangha (~5 min), Hindusthan Club (~26 min), Singhi Park Sarbojanin (~29 min), Ekdalia Evergreen Club (~34 min)
- Kalighat Metro: Tridhara Sammilani (~17 min), Deshapriya Park Sarbojanin (~13 min), Hindusthan Park Sarbojanin (~28 min), Golpark Sarbojanin (~36 min)
- VIP Bazar Metro: Kasba R.K. Chatterjee Road Adhibasi Brinda (~33 min), Kasba Shakti Sangha Pallybasi Durgotsav Samity (~33 min), Westend Park Sarbojanin (Kamala Park) (~38 min), Bosepukur Sitala Mandir Sarbojanin (~22 min)
- Ritwik Ghatak Metro: Adi Ballygunge Sarbojanin (~42 min)
Food, toilets and sights in Gariahat – Ballygunge
Public toilets and water
- Pay-and-use toilet, Golpark (Dr Meghnad Saha Road, by RKM Institute of Culture) · Pay toilet block on Dr Meghnad Saha Road at Golpark, beside the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture
- Public toilet, Gariahat Road at Garcha Road (Gariahat tram depot) · On Gariahat Road by the Gariahat bus stop / tram depot, 400 m north of the Ekdalia-Singhi Park lanes; has a changing table
Where to eat and drink
- The Irish House (Quest Mall) · Big beer-and-pub-grub bar on Quest Mall's top floor; packed on puja evenings, long waits
- 6 Ballygunge Place · The upmarket Bengali bungalow (2003): daab chingri, kosha mangsho, bhapa ilish; book ahead on Puja nights
- Azad Hind Dhaba (Hindusthan Park) · Late-night Punjabi dhaba: dal tadka, butter chicken, roti; this is the Hindusthan Park branch
- Bedwin / Bedouin Roll Centre (Gariahat) · Gariahat's roll counter: egg chicken roll, mutton roll; closed Sunday
- Bhojohori Manna (Hindusthan Road) · Bengali comfort food beside Ekdalia and Hindusthan Club: kosha mangsho, chingri malaikari, daab chingri
- Bohemian (Ballygunge Place) · Chef Joymalya Banerjee's modern Bengali: gondhoraj and kasundi in everything; book ahead
- Campari (Gariahat) · Fish fry, mutton cutlet and egg rolls since 1979, a few steps from Gariahat crossing
- Haldiram's (Ballygunge Phari) · Reliable veg snacks, chaat and sweets at Ballygunge Phari crossing
- Jugal's (Rash Behari Avenue, Gariahat) · 1923 Sealdah sweet house, Gariahat branch: kheer kadam, mishti doi, singara
- Kasturi (Ballygunge Place) · Budget Bangladeshi-Bengali since 1994: kochu pata chingri bhapa, bhuna khichuri, shutki
- Koshe Kosha (Golpark) · Chain built on kosha mangsho and luchi; the Golpark outlet is the one on the Gariahat side
- Mithai (Syed Amir Ali Avenue) · The 1955 Ghosh family shop: nolen gur sandesh in season, mishti doi, no colouring or excess sugar
- Mitra Cafe (Golpark) · South branch of the 1910 Shobhabazar cabin: fish kabiraji, diamond fish fry, brain chop
- Mouchak (Golpark) · Sweets and shingara: nolen gur sandesh, shahi paan sandesh, baked mihidana
- Saptapadi (Hindusthan Park) · Film-themed Bengali thalis next door to Tero Parbon: kosha mangsho, bhetki paturi, an Anglo-Indian menu too
- Sienna Store & Cafe (Hindusthan Park) · Design store and cafe in a Hindusthan Park house: Bengali small plates, gondhoraj drinks, filter coffee
- Tasty Corner (Mandeville Gardens) · Cheap student favourite in the lane behind Ekdalia: hing kachori, parathas, chicken chaap, jalebi
- Tero Parbon (Hindusthan Park) · Sit-down Bengali between Hindusthan Park and Golpark: bhetki paturi, mutton, chingri
- Zam Zam (Park Circus) · The original Park Circus beef biryani house: biryani with the mandatory potato, beef malai, shami kebab
- Zeeshan (Park Circus) · Cheaper, quicker biryani and rolls 250 m south of Arsalan on Syed Amir Ali Avenue
Worth a look on the way
- Birla Mandir, Gariahat Road (Asutosh Chowdhury Avenue) · White-marble Radha-Krishna temple finished in 1996, floodlit at night; evening darshan till 9 pm, 600 m north of Ballygunge Phari
- Gariahat crossing: market and pavement stalls · Kolkata's famous hawker pavements under the flyover, saris to street food; slow going on Puja evenings, best browsed on the way from Ekdalia to Singhi Park
- Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Gol Park · The 1960 Ramakrishna Mission campus on the Gol Park roundabout; the Vivekananda shrine and lawns are a calm stop between Golpark Sarbojanin and Hindusthan Park
- Triangular Park, Rashbehari Avenue · The small wedge of green on Rashbehari Avenue you pass between Hindusthan Club and Tridhara; a place to stand still for a minute
Gariahat – Ballygunge: questions people ask
- How many pandals can I see in Gariahat – Ballygunge in one evening?
- 19 curated pandals sit within the Gariahat – Ballygunge circuit, about 3 h 10 min of walking end to end. With queues of 5 to 45 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 Gariahat – Ballygunge?
- Jatin Das Park Metro: Monohar Pukur Baisakhi Sangha is about 5 minutes' walk from it. Other stations serving the area: Kalighat Metro, VIP Bazar Metro, Ritwik Ghatak Metro.
- Which are the famous or best pandals in Gariahat – Ballygunge?
- The famous pujas here, the ones with citywide crowds, are Deshapriya Park Sarbojanin, Singhi Park Sarbojanin, Ekdalia Evergreen Club, Maddox Square (Ballygunge Durga Puja Samity). 15 more neighbourhood pujas sit along the same lanes and are usually quicker to get into.
- Is there a Gariahat – Ballygunge Durga Puja route map?
- Yes: the "Open this route map in Google Maps" link above draws the walking order from Jatin Das Park 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 Gariahat – Ballygunge?
- Pay-and-use toilet, Golpark (Dr Meghnad Saha Road, by RKM Institute of Culture); Public toilet, Gariahat Road at Garcha Road (Gariahat tram depot). Metro stations on the way have toilets inside the paid area.