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Garden Reach, Kolkata — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Garden Reach is a neighbourhood of Kolkata on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, taking in Metiabruz, Rajabagan and Santoshpur.
About Garden Reach
Where to stay in Garden Reach
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Hotels barely register in Garden Reach. Most travellers take a room in central Kolkata and ride out to the south-western part of the city, where Metiabruz, Bandhabartala and Bartala carry the everyday trade rather than hotels. Rajabagan, Badartala and Santoshpur are residential streets.
BNR Colony reads the same way. If you want the Hooghly River and the Baba en Mai shrine within easy reach, base yourself in the Kolkata centre and cross into Garden Reach for the day.
About Garden Reach
What are the main landmarks in Garden Reach?
Garden Reach's roll of sights is brief. Baba en Mai is the one named landmark recorded for Garden Reach, and the rest of what marks the neighbourhood out is its patchwork of localities rather than any single monument. Metiabruz, Bandhabartala, Bartala and Badartala sit inside the same boundary.
BNR Colony, Rajabagan and Santoshpur complete the set, each a named quarter of the same Kolkata neighbourhood on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River.
What is the history of Garden Reach?
Two naming traditions sit side by side. Garden Reach is an English name, while the localities gathered beneath it, Metiabruz, Bandhabartala, Bartala, Badartala, Rajabagan, BNR Colony and Santoshpur, each keep a name of their own. Baba en Mai is the monument recorded here.
The neighbourhood belongs to Kolkata, in the Indian state of West Bengal, and meets the Hooghly River on its eastern bank.
Where is Garden Reach?
The Hooghly River forms the western limit of Garden Reach, which occupies the south-western part of Kolkata and gathers Metiabruz, Bandhabartala, Bartala, Badartala, Rajabagan, BNR Colony and Santoshpur. Seven named localities in all.
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Updated September 2026