Thailand attractions
Explore old shopping streets and lanes, stopping for cafés, food and architecture. Daytime neighbourhood walks and streets with evening markets have different atmospheres.
8 · Streets and neighbourhoods
Bangkok · Backpacker street in Bangkok’s Old City
Khao San Roadถนนข้าวสาร
Khao San Road is a roughly 300-metre traveller street in Bangkok’s Old Town, lined with accommodation, travel agencies, restaurants, pubs and clubs. It began as a backpacker lodging hub and now includes hotels, boutiques and restaurants serving food from many countries.
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Bangkok · Neighbourhood of gold shops, Chinese temples and food lanes
Yaowarat / Bangkok Chinatownเยาวราช
Yaowarat is the main commercial street of Bangkok’s Chinatown. Red and gold jewellery-shop signs, Chinese temples and small shrines, seafood restaurants and grocery shops line the main road and its lanes.
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Bangkok · Historic commercial street near Chinatown
Song Wat Roadถนนทรงวาด
Song Wat Road is a historic commercial street in Samphanthawong, Bangkok. Cafés, galleries and craft shops have moved in among more than a century-old shophouses and restaurants, so old architecture and current businesses line the same street.
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Bangkok · Riverside historic Chinese neighbourhood with alley art
Talat Noiตลาดน้อย
Talat Noi grew as trade in Sampheng expanded, forming a Chinese-Thai community of narrow lanes. Around Wanit 2 and Charoen Krung 22, you can see old houses and shrines, murals of daily life and festivals, and the distinctive orange Fiat.
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Bangkok · Area with an old commercial street and creative spaces
Charoen Krungถนนเจริญกรุง
Charoen Krung is a long road and surrounding neighbourhood where historic commercial buildings and newer creative spaces line Bangkok’s riverside. Highlights include the Thailand Creative & Design Center (TCDC) inside the Central Post Office and Warehouse 30, a group of seven former warehouses on Charoen Krung 30.
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Chiang Mai · Chiang Mai neighbourhood of cafes, boutiques and galleries
Nimmanhaemin Streetถนนนิมมานเหมินท์
Nimmanhaemin is a Chiang Mai neighbourhood of cafés, galleries and boutiques along a roughly 1 km main road and its side sois. Small shops sit among homes, giving the main road and the lanes different characters.
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Phuket · Phuket historic district with shophouses and street art
Phuket Old Townย่านเมืองเก่าภูเก็ต
Phuket Old Town has shophouses and mansions from the era when tin mining brought prosperity to the island. Sino-Portuguese buildings and murals preserve traces of the Peranakan community, where Chinese, Malay and Thai cultures met; some old buildings are now used as museums or cafés.
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Koh Samui · Historic fishing-village shopping street in Bophut
Bophut Fisherman’s Villageหมู่บ้านชาวประมงบ่อผุด
Fisherman’s Village Bophut is a street of former fishing-village homes, shops and restaurants along Bophut Beach on Koh Samui’s north coast. Some old wooden shophouses belonging to the Chinese community have become shops and accommodation, so you can see both the buildings’ earlier character and today’s beachside businesses.
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