Editor's picks
A local's shortlist — the places worth your time first, each with a tip.
Marine Drive & Chowpatty
Landmark · South Mumbai
A three-kilometre art deco crescent along the Arabian Sea, its streetlights known as the Queen's Necklace after dark.
Local tip: Go at sunset and walk north to Chowpatty for bhelpuri from the stalls. Mumbai has the world's second-largest collection of art deco buildings after Miami — look up at the facades along the promenade.
Sanjay Gandhi National Park & Kanheri Caves
Nature · Borivali, northern suburbs
A 104-square-kilometre national park inside the city limits, with 2,000-year-old Buddhist caves carved into basalt and a resident leopard population.
Local tip: Genuinely wild — leopards live here and occasionally enter surrounding neighbourhoods. Go early on a weekday. The Kanheri caves are a 6km walk or a bus from the gate.
Dharavi
Neighborhood · Central Mumbai
One of the world's largest informal settlements and also a working industrial district turning over hundreds of millions of dollars a year in recycling, leather and pottery.
Local tip: If you visit, go with an operator that employs residents and returns money to the community, and do not photograph people without asking. Better still, buy from the leather workshops directly.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus
Landmark · Fort
A UNESCO-listed Victorian Gothic railway station from 1888, and still one of the busiest in India.
Local tip: The exterior is what everyone photographs; the heritage gallery and the star chamber inside are open to visitors and almost nobody goes. Come at 6pm to see the peak commuter flow, which is a sight in itself.
Bandra's Bandstand and Chapel Road
Neighborhood · Bandra West
The suburb where the film industry lives — sea-facing promenades, Portuguese-era villas and street art along Chapel Road.
Local tip: Walk Chapel Road and Waroda Road for the murals and the old East Indian village houses, then eat at one of the Bandra institutions rather than the sea-facing chains.
Banganga Tank
Hidden gemCulture · Walkeshwar, Malabar Hill
An 11th-century freshwater tank surrounded by temples and stepped ghats, hidden in the middle of Mumbai's most expensive neighbourhood.
Local tip: Five minutes from the towers of Malabar Hill and a thousand years away. Almost no visitors find it, and the residents around the tank have lived there for generations. Go at dawn.
Explore 73 places across Mumbai
Museums, landmarks, monuments, heritage sites and parks — mapped, with photos. The most notable spots first.
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Museums & galleries
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MuseumSamyukta Maharashtra Daalan
Museum.
BEST Museum
Museum run by MCGC.
Landmarks & architecture
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LandmarkBelapur Fort
Fort.
Worli Fort
Fort.
Somaiya Gate No. 2
Historic city gate.
Monuments & memorials
(7)
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MonumentINS Vikrant Memorial
Memorial dedicated to the ship INS Vikrant in Mumbai
Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar
Public artwork.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Memorial.
Ruttonsee Mujee Fountain
Memorial.
Places of worship
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ReligiousISKCON temple Mumbai
Building in India
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ReligiousPortuguese churches, Mandapeshwar
Church in Mandapeshwar, Mumbai Suburban district
ReligiousBowen Memorial Methodist Church
A church in Mumbai, India
ReligiousTiphaereth Israel Synagogue
Synagogue in Mumbai, India
ReligiousPortuguese Monastery over the cave and large watch tower on the adjoining hill
Monastery in Mandapeshwar, Mumbai Suburban district
Haji Ali Dargah
Place of worship.
Kwan Tai Shek Temple
Place of worship.
Global Pagoda
Place of worship.
Heritage & archaeology
(3)Bandra Fort
Historic ruins.
Main Portuguese gate to Bombay Castle
Historic ruins.
Mazagaon Fort
Historic ruins.
Parks & nature
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ParkDiamond Garden
Chembur
Public park in Chembur.
Joggers' Park
Public park.
More to explore
(2)Amphitheatre
Visitor attraction.
Castella de Aguada
Visitor attraction.
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