Dahisar is a suburb of Mumbai. It is also a railway station on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Western Railway (India) railway line. Located on the city limits of Mumbai, Dahisar is the last suburb and railway station within the Mumbai Suburban District.The history of Dahisar is probably as old as the ruins of Mandpeshwar caves that lie on the Dahisar - Borivali border.

The Panchkalshis, Agris, East Indians and Kolis, who still live primarily in the hamlets of Kandarpada and Gaothan and the tribes who lived in the hills surrounding Dahisar - the Warlis and Dublis are the original residents of Dahisar.

Film shoots were a popular activity in Dahisar. Idyllic locations for film shoots were the Dahisar River and the small hillock with its orchards that is now the Shanti Nagar slum and the Bhoot Bangla that is now a film studio. Dahisar is bound by the scenic hills of Sanjay Gandhi National Park on the eastern side and the inlet of Manori creek and saltpans on the western side. The dense mangroves surrounding the inlet of Gorai creek however still remain and provide Dahisar with its last remaining stretch of wilderness.

There are many temples in Dahisar. The main temples are Bhatladevi, Bhav Devi Mandir, Gaon Devi Mandir, Vithal Mandir, Sri Datta Mandir, Sri Krishna Mandir, Khodiyar Mandir, Radhakrishan Mandir, Vital-Rukhmai Mandir etc. And Sri Krishna's Haweli (Vaishnava's), Swami Narayan's Mandir, Sri Shantinaath Dada Jain Mandir, Sai Baba Temple (Gaonthan), Sairam Temple Padmavilla Kiran Joshi House, Shree Hanuman Mandir (Navagaon) 1975.