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Nashik–Trimbakeshwar Simhastha · Getting there

Mumbai to Nashik for the Kumbh: Train, Bus or Car

KumbhMela.info Editorial TeamChecked on Fri 16 Oct 2026

From Mumbai, the realistic options are a train to Nashik Road (about 3 to 3.5 hours on most trains), an MSRTC bus from Dadar, Borivali or Thane, or a car or taxi on the Mumbai–Agra highway.

EvergreenChecked on Fri 16 Oct 2026

The basic routes on this page do not change from year to year. Kumbh 2027 transport arrangements, such as special trains, extra buses, parking, shuttles and road closures, have not been announced. The Kumbh Mela Authority's interim plan outlines them but marks its figures as tentative. Train and bus details come from NTES and MSRTC timetables, checked on 16 October 2026; timetables change.

The Kumbh has two bathing centres, about 28 to 30 km apart by road: Ramkund in Nashik city, by Panchavati, and Kushavarta in the separate town of Trimbakeshwar. Plan your last stretch to the one you need. Nashik Road station is about 10 km from Ramkund.

The ways in, at a glance

FromMumbai
  1. By train, arrive at3Nashik Road railway stationAbout 8.4 km from Ramkund and Panchavati in a straight line
  2. By bus, arrive at4Mela bus standAbout 1.5 km from Ramkund and Panchavati in a straight line5Nimani bus stationAbout 0.7 km from Ramkund and Panchavati in a straight line
  3. By roadParking set by the mela traffic plan, then shuttle or walk
  4. By air, nearest airportNashik Airport at Ozar, or Mumbai
Then to the main ghatRamkund and Panchavati

Numbers match the map below. Distances are straight lines on the map, not road distances.

Nashik: Panchavati ghats, Tapovan and arrival pointsGodavari123451 kmN
Nashik: Panchavati ghats, Tapovan and arrival points
  1. 1Ramkund and PanchavatiGhat
  2. 2TapovanPlace
  3. 3Nashik Road railway stationRailway
  4. 4Mela bus standBus
  5. 5Nimani bus stationBus

A guide to where places are, not a route plan. During the mela, roads and ghats open and close by the official plan; follow police and mela directions.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Some temple locations from Wikidata (CC0). openstreetmap.org/copyright

Mumbai to Nashik at a glance

ModeHowWhat to check
TrainNTES lists 93 trains from CSMT, LTT, Dadar and Panvel to Nashik Road (NK); 28 run daily. Most take about 3 to 3.5 hours.Which Mumbai station, the running days, and any change on NTES or IRCTC
BusMSRTC buses from Dadar, Borivali, Thane, Kalyan and Panvel, including Shivshahi and Shivai electric busesWhich Nashik bus stand it reaches, and booking on npublic.msrtcors.com or at the stand
Car or taxiThe Mumbai–Agra national highway, or the Samruddhi Mahamarg as far as IgatpuriDiversions, outer parking and closures near Amrit Snan days
To TrimbakeshwarTrain or bus to Nashik, then the MSRTC shuttle, or one of the few direct buses from Thane and DadarWhich bathing centre you need on your day

By train, bus or car from Mumbai

By train

Indian Railways’ NTES enquiry listed 93 trains from Mumbai stations to Nashik Road (NK) when we checked on 16 October 2026. 28 of them run daily, and most take about 3 to 3.5 hours.

  • Daily trains from CSMT: the Tapovan Express (17617) early in the morning, the Jan Shatabdi (12071) around midday, and the Panchavati Express (12109) and Rajya Rani Express (17612) in the evening, each about 3 hours 20 minutes.
  • Vande Bharat: two Vande Bharat trains from CSMT, 22223 in the morning and 20706 in the afternoon, run six days a week and take about 2 hours 40 minutes to 3 hours.
  • LTT, Dadar and Panvel: many long-distance trains to northern and eastern India leave from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT), and a few from Dadar and Panvel. Many run only once or twice a week, and some are on-demand specials.
  • Kalyan: NTES also lists 93 trains from Kalyan Junction to Nashik Road, so you can board there if it is closer.
  • Check before you go: timetables change. Check your train on NTES or IRCTC before you book, and again on the day you travel.
  • No Kumbh specials yet: no list of special Kumbh trains for 2027 has been published. The Kumbh Mela Authority’s interim plan expects extra trains on peak days, including short-distance MEMU trains towards Mumbai about every 20 minutes. As of 16 October 2026 we found no Indian Railways timetable for them.

By bus

MSRTC, the Maharashtra state bus service, runs buses between Mumbai and Nashik through the day. Its 2025 timetable for the Mahamarg bus stand in Nashik lists more than a dozen daily buses each to Dadar and Borivali, including Shivshahi and Shivai electric buses, and others to Thane, Kalyan and Panvel. Book on npublic.msrtcors.com, or at the bus stand for buses not sold online.

Nashik has more than one bus stand, so check which one your bus uses and how you will get on to your stay.

By car

By car, the Mumbai–Agra national highway passes through Nashik, the district website says. The Samruddhi Mahamarg, the Mumbai–Nagpur expressway, opened its last stretch, from Amane in Thane district to Igatpuri in Nashik district, in June 2025. Check the exit and the onward road on a current map before you use it.

The authority’s plan marks a Mumbai road approach into both Nashik and Trimbakeshwar, with outer parking on the way in. On Amrit Snan days, expect to park outside and take a shuttle.

The Nashik Road state transport bus stand with its name board, just outside the railway station.Photo: Superfast1111, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An MSRTC bus at a Nashik bus stand

The last stretch: Ramkund or Trimbakeshwar

The Nashik Kumbh has two bathing centres. Ramkund is in Nashik city. Kushavarta is in Trimbakeshwar, a separate town about 28 to 30 km away by road.

  1. Pick one centre for your dayDo not plan Ramkund and Kushavarta on the same day. Pick one centre and stay near it the night before. The third Amrit Snan is split: Saturday 11 September 2027 at Ramkund and Sunday 12 September at Kushavarta. See the Kushavarta guide and where to stay.
  2. On to RamkundOn a normal day it is about 10 km from Nashik Road station and about 2 to 3 km from Nashik’s Central Bus Stand, according to the Nashik district. See the Ramkund guide.
  3. Or on to TrimbakeshwarMSRTC’s Trimbakeshwar timetable, in force from March 2025, lists a shuttle bus to and from Nashik every 30 minutes from early morning to late evening, plus electric buses. Nashik Road station is about 40 km from Trimbakeshwar, the district says. The same timetable lists one bus a day each way between Trimbakeshwar and Thane, and between Trimbakeshwar and Parel or Dadar.
  4. Driving to TrimbakeshwarThe authority’s plan names a Ghoti, Igatpuri and Trimbakeshwar road corridor for a traffic study, and its Trimbakeshwar map marks a Mumbai road approach. Check the 2027 traffic plan before you drive this way.
  5. On an Amrit Snan day, park and walkExpect to leave your vehicle at outer parking, take a shuttle in, and walk the last stretch to the ghat. See what changes on those days, below.

What changes on Amrit Snan days

This is how traffic was handled at the last Simhastha, in 2015, and what the authority has planned for 2027. The 2027 traffic plan has not been published, and it may change.

What2015, what happened2027, what is planned
Private carsStopped outside: the city corporation set up parking for about 1 lakh vehicles within about 10 km of the main ghats, IANS reportedOuter, buffer and inner parking, in the Kumbh Mela Authority’s interim plan of June 2026
Getting closerPublic buses ran on from the parkingMSRTC shuttle buses from outer to inner parking in Nashik, from outer parking to Trimbakeshwar, and from the railway stations
The last stretchPeople walked the last 2 kmBeyond inner parking, you walk to the ghats
Main bathing daysOnly public buses were to be allowed in on the three main Shahi Snan daysThe 2027 traffic plan has not been published

Trains. Indian Railways plans to handle Kumbh passengers at Nashik Road, Devlali, Odha, Kherwadi and Kasbe Sukene, All India Radio reported in July 2025. The plan’s railway section expects 55 to 60 short-distance trains a day for about five days around each Amrit Snan, about one every 20 minutes, with MEMU trains towards Mumbai. It marks all its figures as tentative.

Nothing is final yet. As of 16 October 2026 we found no published list of Kumbh special trains or extra buses, and no parking sites or road-closure dates for 2027. Book only what NTES, IRCTC or the state bus services show, not a train or bus you read about in a forwarded message.

Nashik bathing days fall in the monsoon

The three Amrit Snans fall in August and September 2027, in the middle of the monsoon. Plan your journey around the dates, and around the rain.

Rain can change plans at short notice. On 24 July 2026 the Godavari crossed the danger mark at Nashik after water was released from Gangapur dam, and the Ramkund area was to stay closed for two days, PTI reported. On 7 July 2026, after a warning of very heavy rain, the Trimbakeshwar temple was closed to devotees for the day. In the same month, heavy rain waterlogged roads in Trimbakeshwar town, and a landslide blocked part of the Trimbak to Palghar road.

People gathered on the ghat at Ramkund at sunset, with flags and the Godavari glowing orange.Photo: Rohit R Nashik, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Godavari at Ramkund, Nashik, in the monsoon

Which days fall in your trip?

The three Amrit Snans are on 2 August, 31 August and 11 and 12 September 2027, in the Kumbh Mela Authority’s plan, which it marks as interim. The Nashik Kumbh dates page has each day with its tithi. Pick your month and who is coming to see which days fall in your trip.

Plan my Kumbh in three taps

Where you arrive

Nashik Road station, the bus stands, Panchavati and Tapovan on one map, drawn from OpenStreetMap. Trimbakeshwar is about 30 km west of Nashik by road.

Nashik: Panchavati ghats, Tapovan and arrival pointsGodavari123451 kmN
Nashik: Panchavati ghats, Tapovan and arrival points
  1. 1Ramkund and PanchavatiGhat
  2. 2TapovanPlace
  3. 3Nashik Road railway stationRailway · Main station
  4. 4Mela bus standBus
  5. 5Nimani bus stationBus

A guide to where places are, not a route plan. During the mela, roads and ghats open and close by the official plan; follow police and mela directions.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Some temple locations from Wikidata (CC0). openstreetmap.org/copyright

Where next

How to reachTrains, buses, roads and the last stretch
Where to stayAreas, camps and what to check
First visitA simple order for getting ready
Ghats and placesWhere the bathing happens

Sources

12 sources · checked 16 Oct 2026
  1. Kumbh Mela Plan (First Edition): Nashik–Trimbakeshwar Simhastha Kumbh Mela 2027 · Nashik–Trimbakeshwar Kumbh Mela Authority, Office of the Divisional Commissioner, Nashik, Government of Maharashtra ·
  2. How to Reach: Nashik District · Nashik District, Government of Maharashtra ·
  3. Ramkund Nashik · Nashik District, Government of Maharashtra ·
  4. Trimbakeshwar Temple: Visitor Orientation · Nashik District, Government of Maharashtra ·
  5. National Train Enquiry System (NTES): trains between stations to Nasik Road · Indian Railways (Centre for Railway Information Systems) ·
  6. MSRTC timetables: Nashik division bus stands (Mahamarg, Mela and Trimbakeshwar) · Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation ·
  7. Railways begin preparations for Nashik-Trimbakeshwar Simhastha 2027 · All India Radio News (News Services Division, Prasar Bharati) ·
  8. Simhastha Kumbh Mela starts in Nashik, Trimbakeshwar (Roundup) · IANS (via Business Standard) ·
  9. Nashik Rains: Godavari Crosses Danger Mark After Gangapur Dam Release · Press Trust of India (via Deccan Chronicle) ·
  10. नासिक में बादल फटने का खतरा! त्र्यंबकेश्वर और सप्तश्रृंगी मंदिर सहित 5 तालुकाओं में स्कूल-कॉलेज और बाजार बंद · Navbharat Live ·
  11. Nashik: Trimbakeshwar Waterlogged After 245 mm Of Rain In 24 Hours; Roads Turn Into Rivers · Free Press Journal ·
  12. Maharashtra CM Fadnavis to inaugurate final 75 km phase of Samruddhi Highway · All India Radio News (News Services Division, Prasar Bharati) ·