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How To Reach Cuttack

By Air: The Biju Patnaik Airport of Bhubaneshwar located about 30 kilometers to the southwest of downtown Cuttack is the nearest airport that connects this ‘Millennium City’ to a number of important Indian metropolises by air. Operated by the Airports Authority of India, the Bhubaneshwar Airport; the only major aviation base of the state of Orissa handles about 11,728 aircraft movements every year. The principal airlines those cater services at this airport include Air India, Air India Regional, Jet Airways, Jet Lite, Kingfisher Airlines and IndiGo. The Bhubaneshwar Airport is connected to numerous metropolitans of the country such as Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Vishakapatnam, Coimbatore, Port Blair, Goa, Bagdogra, Srinagar, Raipur, and many others by air. The Biju Patnaik Airport will soon be upgraded to the status of an international airport. To reach Cuttack from Bhubaneshwar Airport, tourists can use auto rickshaws, taxis or city buses, or they could even rent a cab.
By Rail: Cuttack Railway Station situated on the Howrah-Chennai Mainline of the East Coast Railway and falling under the Khurda Road Division of IRCTC is one of the foremost railheads of the Indian Railways that is very well connected to various Indian cities in and around Orissa by train. Situated right in the heart of the city very close to the RMS Post Office, the Cuttack Railway Station is easily approachable from any part of the conurbation. Some of the most worth mentioning trains plying from the Cuttack Railway Station include Guwahati Exp, Coromandel Exp, Purshottam Exp, Nandan Kanan Ex, Hyderabad Shalimar Weekly Exp, Hyderabad Guwahati Exp, Haldia Exp, Bhubaneshwar Jan Shatabdi Exp, Bhubaneshwar Ltt Superfast Exp, Darbhanga Puri Exp, Vivek Exp, Patna Exp, Tapaswini Exp, Sri Jagannath Exp, East Coast Exp, Rajya Rani Exp, Jodhpur Puri Exp, Mysore Howrah Exp, Gurudev Exp, Dibrugarh Exp, Visakhapatnam Shalimar Exp. Etc. The major destinations accessible from Cuttack via train include Bhubaneshwar, Puri, Howarh, Patna, Kamakhya, Guwahati, Mathura, Jhansi, Delhi, H Nizamuddin, Tatanagar, Allahabad, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Visakhapatnam, Coimbatore, Kanyakumari, Tirupati, Trivandrum, Ernakulam, Thrissur, Jodhpur, etc.
By Road: National Highway No 5 which connects Chennai to Kolkata as a part of the Golden Quadrilateral Project of India passes through Cuttack and connects it to Bhubaneshwar to its southwest and to Bhadrak to its northeast. Apart from the NH 5, State Highway No 12 also passes through Cuttack and annexes it to Paradip. Additionally, Cuttack is also linked to Jajpur, Talcher, Angul, Kendrapara and a number of towns and cities of Orissa and neighboring states by road. Cuttack is connected to its twin city and the state capital Bhubaneshwar via DTS city buses and even auto rickshaws. Not only that, public transport buses also ply from Cuttack to Bhubaneshwar & Puri and vice versa on a regular basis. Badambadi Bus Terminus of Cuttack sited close to the point where South Kathajodi Road and West Link Road intersect is one of the largest bus terminus of India from where hundreds of government as well as private buses ply to innumerable destinations every single day. Cuttack is located about 26 km from Bhubaneshwar, 80 km from Konark, 96 km from Kanpur (Odisha), 97 km from Puri, 105 km from Bhadrak, 176 km from Balasore, 194 km from Brahmapur, 272 km from Sambalpur and 321 km from Rourkela.