Ranked by how much each place adds to a visit, with realistic visiting times, opening hours and ticket prices.
11 places · showing 1–11
1
The 1924 basalt arch on the harbour that has served as the city's front door, ceremonial entrance and meeting point ever since.
2
Three kilometres of curved seafront promenade backed by art deco apartment blocks, ending at the city's most famous beach for bhelpuri…
3
Rock-cut Shaiva cave temples from the 5th to 8th centuries on an island in the harbour, reached by an hour's ferry.
4
The 1888 Victorian Gothic railway station, a UNESCO site, still handling three million commuters a day.
5
A 15th-century mosque and tomb on an islet, reached by a causeway that disappears under the sea at high tide.
6
Mumbai's most visited temple, dedicated to Ganesha, with queues that stretch around the block on Tuesdays.
7
The main shopping street of South Mumbai: street stalls, silver, secondhand books, Leopold Café and the lanes towards Sassoon Dock.
8
The city's principal museum, in an Indo-Saracenic building of 1922, holding sculpture, miniatures, natural history and a strong…
9
The suburban seafront promenades where Mumbai jogs, courts and gawks at film stars' houses.
10
A 104 sq km forest inside the city limits, holding 109 Buddhist caves carved between the 1st century BCE and the 10th century CE.
11
A guided walk through the recycling workshops, potteries and leather units of one of Asia's most productive informal economies.