
Thampanoor is the geographic center (CBD) of the Indian city of
Thiruvananthapuram
Thiruvananthapuram ( ), also known as Trivandrum, is the Capital city, capital city of the Indian state of Kerala. As of 2011, the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation had a population of 957,730 over an area of 214.86 sq. km, making it the ...
. The busiest railway station of the state in terms of daily passengers,
Thiruvananthapuram Central (Station Code: TVC), is located at Thampanoor. It caters an average of 40,908 passengers a day (2017–2018), making it as the busiest railway station in Kerala. Opposite to the railway station is the major Bus Terminal of Kerala, the
Central Bus Station, Thiruvananthapuram (TVM) which is the largest and the busiest Bus station in the state connecting to almost all the parts of the State and other interstate cities. Thampanoor is administered by
Thiruvananthapuram Corporation. Councillor of Thampanoor Corporation Ward is Harikumar. It falls under the
Thiruvananthapuram (State Assembly constituency) which inturn comes under one of the seven assemblies under the
Thiruvananthapuram (Lok Sabha constituency)
Thiruvananthapuram Parliamentary (Lok Sabha) Constituency is one of the 20 parliamentary constituencies in Kerala, India. It is located in Thiruvananthapuram district and encompasses the major part of Thiruvananthapuram city, the capital of Ke ...
.
Thampanoor is also the hub of a variety of hotel suites and lodging facilities, suiting the needs of all types of passengers. Some of which include Apollo Dimora, Hyacinth, Central Residency, Hotel Horizon, Greenland Lodging, Hotel Chaithram and numerous other big and small lodging facilities and restaurants. Thampanoor also houses many major Cinema Halls of the city, including Kairali, Sree, Nila, Aries Plex, New, Sree Kumar, Sree Vishakh, etc. Shopping Malls such as
Pothys,
Smart Bazaar, etc., are located around here. The S.S Kovil Road in Thampanoor is the state hub to numerous coaching centres for various Competitive Exams for securing Government Jobs such as Indian Civil Services, Bank, SSC, UPSC, Kerala PSC, etc. Thampanoor is also home to Regional offices of major newspapers and medias such as
Malayala Manorama
'' Manorama'' is a morning newspaper in Malayalam published from Kottayam, Kerala, India by the Malayala Manorama Company Limited. Currently headed by Mammen Mathew, it was first published as a weekly on 14 March 1888, and currently has a rea ...
,
Deshabhimani,
Mangalam,
Asianet News
Asianet News is an Indian Malayalam-language free-to-air news channel, operated by the Asianet News Network, a subsidiary of Asianxt Digital Technologies. The channel is based in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Asianet News is currently one of th ...
,
News18 Kerala, Janamtv etc. It also consists of the headquarters of the
Thiruvananthapuram railway division, one of the six administrative divisions of the
Southern Railway Zone
Southern Railway (SR) is one of the eighteen zones of Indian Railways. It is headquartered at Chennai and operates across the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and the union territory of Puducherry. The origin of the Southern Rai ...
of the
Indian Railways
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just at a mile distance, and the
Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), one of the country's oldest state-run public bus transport services, in the
Central Bus Station.
Thampanoor Railway Station is connected by daily train services to various major cities in India such as
Delhi
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,
Mumbai
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,
Kolkata
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,
Chennai
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,
Bengaluru
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,
Hyderabad
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,
Kanyakumari,
Madurai
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,
Tiruchirappalli
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,
Kochi
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,
Kozhikode
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It is the nineteenth large ...
etc. Daily bus services, both
KSRTC and private services are available from here to major cities in India.
Padmanabhaswamy Temple at
East Fort, Trivandrum, is located just a mile away from Thampanoor Junction.
Trivandrum Museums and Zoo is located about two miles away from here.
Chalai Bazaar, one of the busiest market in the state, is located less than a mile from Thampanoor. Local Bus Service to any place in Trivandrum are available either from Thampanoor or
East Fort which is located almost a mile apart.
Thiruvananthapuram North Railway Station, the Satellite Rail Terminal of Trivandrum City, is located away from Thampanoor and can be reached by bus or local passenger trains.
Thiruvananthapuram International Airport is located away. Thampanoor Police Station is located near the Railway Station.
References
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Suburbs of Thiruvananthapuram