Last updated: October 2026 · Method: desk research — gate names and locations from the old city’s layout and standard city histories; verify individual gates’ current state on foot.
The walled city of Jodhpur was built with a fence of stone and a vocabulary of gates — each pol (gate) a name, a direction and a neighbourhood’s identity. Walking gate to gate is the best one-hour orientation the old city offers: six gates, one wall’s worth of history, and the lanes between them doing what lanes do.
The gates, clockwise-ish
- Sojati Gate; the western anchor and the shopping street it names (see our street guide); bandhani houses and the old gate arch.
- Jalori Gate; the northwest gate, forever tied to the Surya Namkeen name in the mirchi bada debate (see the debate guide).
- Nai Sarak gate end; the “new street” that is centuries old, running toward the fort quarter (our names guide explains the irony).
- Chandpole; the “moon gate,” opening toward the Brahmapuri blue lanes and the marble-carving quarter (see the Chandpole guide).
- Paal Road / Pal Gate side; the southern approaches toward the newer city and Pal Road.
- Navchokiya side; less a formal gate than the opening into the blue-quarter’s lanes below the fort (the walking route starts here).
How to walk them
One relaxed hour, morning: start at Sojati Gate, follow the wall’s grain toward Chandpole, dip into the blue lanes, and emerge by the Clock Tower for chai (the chai trail‘s stops fit this walk). Each gate still functions as its neighbourhood’s front door, the traffic, the shrines at the arches, the shops specialising by gate, all readable once you know the sequence.
Questions worth asking
How many gates were there originally?
The walled city had more gates than survive intact; some names outlive their stonework (our etymology guide collects the survivors and the ghosts).
Which gate is most photogenic?
Sojati Gate’s arch with the market glow behind it, and Chandpole with the blue lanes beyond, evening for the first, morning for the second.
Related guides
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