Tourists planning to visit Kolkata can travel to Kolkata by air, railways, roadways, or waterways. Calcutta travel entails all these modes. Kolkata has an international airport in Dum Dum, approximately 20 km from the city center. The NSC Bose International airport in Dum Dum handles both international and domestic flights.
The railway termini at Sealdah and Howrah serve the city of Kolkata. There is an additional station by the name of 'Kolkata' in Chitpore. The Khidderpore Dock is the Calcutta port which handles all sea going vessels. The Esplanade bus terminus is the destination of inter state long distance buses to Kolkata.
Flights to Kolkata
The international flights flying to Calcutta regularly include:
- Dhaka and Chittagong in Bangladesh are connected by Indian, Biman Bangladesh, GMG Airlines flights to Kolkata.
- Bangkok in Thailand has regular Indian, Thai Airways and Druk Airways flights to Calcutta
- Indian and Cosmic Air operate regular flights from Kathmandu in Nepal to Kolkata
- Flights from London to Calcutta are operated by Indian and British Airways
- Druk Airways connect Paro in Bhutan to Kolkata
- Dubai in UAE and Calcutta are connected by Emirates flights
- Indian operates flights between Yangon in Myanmar and Calcutta
- Singapore is connected to Kolkata by Singapore Airlines flights
- Gulf Air connects Bahrain and Muscat to Kolkata
- Lufthansa flies a weekly flight from Frankfurt in Germany to Kolkata
Kolkata state capital is connected by domestic flights from New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Guwahati, Shillong, Dimapur, Aizawl, Agartala, Imphal, Ranchi, Patna, Lucknow, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Port Blair, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Raipur, Bhubaneswar,
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Ranchi, Nagpur, Allahabad, Pune, Jorhat, Dimapur, Tezpur, Silchar, and Bagdogra.
Trains to Kolkata
The important trains traveling to Howrah from different locations are:
- Rajdhani Express, Poorva Express, and Delhi-Kalka mail from Delhi
- Geetanjali Express, Kurla Express, Bombay mail from Mumbai
- Coromandal Express, Madras Mail from Chennai
- East Coast Express and Falaknama Express from Hyderabad
- Amritsar Mail from Amritsar
- Azad Hind Express from Pune
- Ahmedabad Express from Anmedabad
- Shipra Express from Indore
- Dhauli Express from Bhubaneswar
- Jana Shatabdi Express, and Danapur Express form Patna
- Sharaighat Express from Guwahati
- Ranchi Hatia Express from Ranchi
- Tirupati Express from Tirupati
- Trivandum Express from Thiruvananthapuram
- Bangalore-Guwahati Express from Bangalore
A few of the trains traveling from other cities to Sealdah are:
- Rajdhani Express, and Lal-Quila Express from Delhi
- Kanchenjungha Express from Guwahati
- Darjeeling Mail from New Jalpaiguri
- Jammu Tawi Express from Jammu
- Teesta-Torsa Express from Haldibari
- Gour Express from Malda
- Gangasagar Express from Darbhanga
- Mughal Sarai Express from Mughal Sarai
Tourists can also travel to Kolkata in inter state buses from places like Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Bhubaneswar, Siliguri, Dhanbad, and Bokaro. Tourists from Port Blair can avail ships to travel to Kolkata.
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