Mumbai

👥 18.4M metro population 95 billionaires🎬 650+ Hindi films a year

Modern India at full volume: Art Deco seafronts, colonial Gothic, Bollywood, and street food and nightlife on every corner. Sunset promenades, island temples and markets that never sleep, in the city that shows you where India is heading.

Highlights

Chhatrapati Shivaji TerminusUNESCO-listed Victorian Gothic that is also one of India's busiest working stations

The Taj Mahal PalaceIndian ambition in stone: the hotel that arrived twenty years before the Gateway

St Thomas' Cathedral (C.N.I.), Mumbai

ISKCON JuhuThe Radha Rasabihari temple

Juhu BeachA walk between sky and sea

South Mumbai

What to see 55

Chhatrapati Shivaji TerminusUNESCO-listed Victorian Gothic that is also one of India's busiest working stationsDetails →

The Taj Mahal PalaceIndian ambition in stone: the hotel that arrived twenty years before the GatewayDetails →

St Thomas' Cathedral (C.N.I.), MumbaiDetails →

ISKCON JuhuThe Radha Rasabihari templeDetails →

Juhu BeachA walk between sky and seaDetails →

CSMVS MuseumMumbai's great museumDetails →

Dhobi GhatThe world's largest laundryDetails →

Jehangir Art GalleryFree entry, and the walls change every few days: Indian art without the museum ticketDetails →

National Gallery of Modern ArtThe Bombay Progressives, seen from a spiral ramp under a 1911 domeDetails →

Gateway of IndiaDetails →

Gilbert HillA 66-million-year-old volcanic monolith standing between suburban apartment blocksDetails →

KhotachiwadiTwenty-eight pastel bungalows holding out five minutes from Charni Road stationDetails →

Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural CentreBroadway-scale staging and four floors of gallery under one lotus ceilingDetails →

Royal Opera HouseThe only opera house left in India, and the interior justifies any ticket on the billDetails →

Sassoon DocksDawn auctions and giant murals sharing one dock that has run since 1875Details →

Dr. Bhau Daji Lad MuseumSeven islands turning into a metropolis, told inside a gilded Victorian hallDetails →

Mani Bhavan Gandhi MuseumThe preserved room where India's freedom campaigns were planned, and it is still quietDetails →

Museum of SolutionsThe family card for Mumbai: four labs where children build things with their handsDetails →

Basilica of Our Lady of the MountDetails →

Banganga TankA 900-year-old tank and its ghats, hidden behind the city's costliest towersDetails →

Govardhan EcovillageDetails →

Haji Ali DargahA causeway that disappears at high tide, and a marble shrine at the far end of itDetails →

Shree Siddhivinayak TempleDetails →

Mahalakshmi TempleThe goddess of fortune keeping watch over the sea wall that made the city possibleDetails →

Mumba Devi TempleThe goddess whose name the city carries: Mumba, mother of the seven islandsDetails →

Kanheri CavesA 2,000-year-old rock-cut monastery hidden inside the city's own national parkDetails →

Elephanta CavesIsland temples to ShivaDetails →

Sanjay Gandhi National ParkDetails →

Thane Creek Flamingo SanctuaryAn hour on the water among a hundred thousand flamingos, inside the metro areaDetails →

Fashion StreetBudget street fashion where the first price quoted is only an opening offerDetails →

Linking RoadThe city's best shoe hunt, from Kolhapuri chappals to this week's trendDetails →

Mangaldas MarketThree thousand stalls of fabric by the metre, where the city buys cloth for weddingsDetails →

Zaveri BazaarTwo-thirds of India's gold changing hands in lanes barely two metres wideDetails →

Title WavesWhere Bandra launches its books, and where you are meant to sit down with themDetails →

Chor BazaarThe thieves' marketDetails →

Colaba Causeway MarketDetails →

ChimanlalsBlock-printed handmade paper that packs flat: the lightest good gift in the cityDetails →

Crawford MarketDetails →

Kitab KhanaAn independent bookstoreDetails →

AndheriDetails →

DharaviDetails →

Keneseth Eliyahoo SynagogueIndigo, white and stained glass behind a gate that almost everyone walks pastDetails →

Global Vipassana PagodaDetails →

South Mumbai

Bandra Fort (Castella de Aguada)The head-on view of the Sea Link, from inside a 380-year-old Portuguese fort

Worli Fort & Worli KoliwadaThe Koli settlement that predates the city, with the Sea Link filling the horizon

Film City (Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari)The closest a visitor gets to a Bollywood set: bus tour only, and only with luck

MCA Cricket Museum & Wankhede Stadium TourGuided access to the ground where India lifted the 2011 World Cup

Afghan Church (St John the Evangelist)A freshly restored Gothic war memorial that almost no visitor makes the detour for

Hanging Gardens & Kamala Nehru ParkThe classic free view of Marine Drive turning into the Queen's Necklace at dusk

Malabar Hill Elevated Nature TrailWalking at canopy height over the last forest on Malabar Hill, sea view included

Rani BaugEight hundred species of tree in a garden of 1861, plus the penguins

Dadar Flower Market (Phool Galli)A river of colour and scent that runs before dawn and is finished by breakfast

Trilogy Curated Bookshop & LibraryShelves chosen book by book by two readers, and quiet enough to actually read in

High Street Phoenix & PalladiumShopping on the floor of a cotton mill, with the chimney still standing over it

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