MRT Blue
MRT Blue Line · Old Town arc
รถไฟฟ้ามหานคร สายสีน้ำเงิน · ช่วงเมืองเก่าDaily 06:00–24:00. This map shows the five-station heritage arc; trains continue around the full Blue Line.
Official service information ↗01
♜ Royal frontageEarly 20th century
Na Phra Lan shophouses
ตึกแถวหน้าพระลาน
Conservation without an empty museum street
The Grand Palace is the postcard. This disciplined, tenant-occupied edge is the city-making architecture. Its restoration kept the people and repaired the whole façade as one civic room.
- Typology
- Continuous two-storey royal-frontage row
- Evidence
- Fine Arts register
- Register / award
- UNESCO Asia-Pacific Award 2011
- ONEP survey
- 1E1-063
- Nearest public transport
- Tha Chang · 194 m / Tha Maharaj · 329 m
- Shapes to review
- 30 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- OSM street axis · high confidence
Explorer noteWalk the opposite pavement at opening time; the repeated bays read best before tour traffic fills the curb.
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▥ Market rowLate 19th century onward
Tha Tien market blocks
กลุ่มตึกแถวท่าเตียน
490 units—urban heritage at district scale
Not one building: 490 shop units, a market and a river landing working as a single urban instrument. The smell, wholesale trade and ferry rhythm are part of the heritage—not noise around it.
- Typology
- Market-and-pier shophouse ensemble
- Evidence
- Published count
- Published count
- 490 units
- ONEP survey
- 1E1-061
- Nearest public transport
- Tha Tien · 79 m / Wat Arun Pier · 222 m
- Shapes to review
- 5 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- documented block extent · high confidence
Explorer noteEnter from Maha Rat, cross the market, then look back from the Wat Arun ferry queue.
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♜ Royal frontageRama V–VI era
Tha Chang–Maha Rat frontage
ตึกแถวท่าช้าง–ถนนมหาราช
Palace edge, public life
A working seam between palace wall, university, amulet trade and river pier. Heritage here is measured by how many different Bangkok lives can still share one short frontage.
- Typology
- Pier-facing masonry row
- Evidence
- Fine Arts register
- Register / award
- FAD-68
- ONEP survey
- 1E1-060
- Nearest public transport
- Tha Chang · 50 m / Tha Maharaj · 282 m
- Shapes to review
- 9 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- OSM street axis · high confidence
Explorer noteTake the cross-river boat once. The row is easier to understand from the water than from the pavement.
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▥ Market rowLate 19th–early 20th century
Sam Phraeng
สามแพร่ง
119 units grown from three palaces
Three former palace compounds became 119 commercial units and a rare interior square. Bangkok did not copy a colonial port here; it converted royal land into a compact mercantile neighbourhood.
- Typology
- Three palace-land shophouse enclaves
- Evidence
- Published count
- Published count
- 119 units
- ONEP survey
- 1E1-057 · 1E1-062
- Nearest public transport
- Sam Yot · 539 m / Phan Fa Lilat · 888 m
- Shapes to review
- 180 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- documented block extent · high confidence
Explorer noteStart at Phraeng Phuthon before breakfast, then cut through Phraeng Nara rather than circling the arterial roads.
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╫ Commercial streetRama V era
Bamrung Mueang–Giant Swing rows
ตึกแถวบำรุงเมือง–เสาชิงช้า
A street wall that makes the monument
The curve does the work. These rows turn the Giant Swing from an object into a place, holding the street wall while temple, city hall and specialist shops face one another.
- Typology
- Civic-axis corner and curved masonry rows
- Evidence
- Fine Arts register
- Register / award
- FAD-5604 / FAD-5386
- ONEP survey
- 1E1-058 · 2E1-068
- Nearest public transport
- Sam Yot · 521 m / Sanam Chai · 867 m
- Shapes to review
- 38 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- OSM street axis · high confidence
Explorer noteLook above the signs. The useful evidence is in parapets, bay widths and the corner turn.
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♜ Royal frontage1851–1868; later Rama V layers
Bowonniwet Temple rows
ตึกแถวหน้าวัดบวรนิเวศวิหาร
The oldest surviving row is still an ordinary street
Bangkok's oldest surviving Rattanakosin rowhouse group began as dwellings for Grand Palace officers, then learned to trade without losing its long civic edge. The corner rises, the ordinary bays repeat, and the temple street becomes a room rather than leftover traffic space.
- Typology
- L-shaped one- and two-storey temple-frontage row
- Evidence
- Published count
- Published count
- 46 units
- ONEP survey
- 2E1-066 · 2E1-069
- Nearest public transport
- Phra Arthit · 696 m / Phan Fa Lilat · 706 m
- Shapes to review
- 67 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- documented block extent · high confidence
Explorer noteBegin on Phra Sumen Road, turn the corner into Dinso, and watch how the row changes height without breaking its street wall.
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╫ Commercial streetRama V era
Tanao Road rows
ตึกแถวริมถนนตะนาว
One street stitches several old towns together
Tanao is the quiet north–south stitch of the old city. Its plain early rows do not compete with monuments; they connect Bowonniwet, Khok Wua, Sam Phraeng and the Giant Swing into one walkable sequence of trade, dwelling and worship.
- Typology
- Long two-storey masonry street rows in three survey sections
- Evidence
- Fine Arts register
- ONEP survey
- 1E1-059 · 2E1-067
- Nearest public transport
- Phan Fa Lilat · 647 m / Phra Arthit · 859 m
- Shapes to review
- 312 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- OSM street axis · high confidence
Explorer noteWalk south from the Bowonniwet corner and keep to one pavement; the changing shop signs reveal how much of the repeated upper façade survives.
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╫ Commercial streetRama V–VI era
Tani Road rows
ตึกแถวถนนตานีและอาคารวรพจน์
Read behind the backpacker street
Tani is easy to dismiss as Khao San's service edge. The official survey asks us to read it differently: as a surviving rowhouse street anchored by Woraphot Building, where small rooms, food and travel have shared a compact frontage for generations.
- Typology
- Short east–west lodging and market row
- Evidence
- Fine Arts register
- ONEP survey
- 2E1-073
- Nearest public transport
- Phra Arthit · 463 m / Phan Fa Lilat · 917 m
- Shapes to review
- 36 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- OSM street axis · high confidence
Explorer noteArrive before the evening crowd and compare the upper floors at both ends; this is a working street, not an isolated façade.
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⌂ Community conservationRama V era onward
Ban Phan Thom rows
ตึกแถวบ้านพานถม–ถนนพระสุเมรุ
The craft quarter begins where the avenue narrows
The official record catches the seam between a neighbourhood named for beaten-metal craft and the larger Phra Sumen road. Heritage here is not a decorative strip: it is the small lane, shop depth and domestic life that let a specialised community meet the city.
- Typology
- Alley-and-arterial rows at a craft-community edge
- Evidence
- Fine Arts register
- ONEP survey
- 2E1-079
- Nearest public transport
- Phan Fa Lilat · 734 m / Thewet · 825 m
- Shapes to review
- 49 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- documented block extent · medium confidence
Explorer noteTurn off Phra Sumen into the smaller lanes; the cultural evidence sits in the change of scale, not in a single landmark.
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♜ Royal frontageEarly 20th century
Phra Athit Khao Hong row
ตึกแถวเก้าห้อง ถนนพระอาทิตย์
Nine bays, one complete civic edge
Only nine bays, but a complete urban sentence: fort, river road, shade trees, homes above trade. Small ensembles like this are where citywide databases usually fail.
- Typology
- Nine-bay river-road shophouse row
- Evidence
- Published count
- Published count
- 9 units
- ONEP survey
- 2E1-072
- Nearest public transport
- Phra Arthit · 81 m / Tha Maharaj · 997 m
- Shapes to review
- 22 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- documented block extent · high confidence
Explorer notePair it with the fort at dusk, then use the river path—not Khao San—as your exit.
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⌂ Community conservationEarly 20th century
Luenrit community
ชุมชนเลื่อนฤทธิ์
The tenants saved the block
Tenants stopped demolition, organised, financed and reopened the restored block in 2022. This is Bangkok's strongest answer to the idea that conservation must arrive from outside the community.
- Typology
- Neoclassical Chinatown shophouse block
- Evidence
- Published count
- ONEP survey
- 3E6-047
- Nearest public transport
- Wat Mangkon · 575 m / Ratchawongse Pier · 670 m
- Shapes to review
- 22 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- documented block extent · high confidence
Explorer noteRead the whole block before entering a café; the collective project matters more than any single tenancy.
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⌂ Community conservationLate 19th–early 20th century
Charoen Chai paper-goods quarter
ชุมชนเจริญไชย
The archive is still a shop
A living supply chain for Chinese ceremonies: paper offerings, calendars, printing, family memory. Its heritage is a network of knowledge held behind ordinary shutters—not a façade treatment.
- Typology
- Ritual-goods shophouse community
- Evidence
- Curated corridor
- Nearest public transport
- Wat Mangkon · 139 m / Hua Lamphong · 853 m
- Shapes to review
- 18 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- OSM street axis · medium confidence
Explorer noteAsk before photographing interiors. Visit ahead of major Chinese festivals when the trade becomes legible.
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╫ Commercial streetRoad laid out in the 1890s
Song Wat trade street
ถนนทรงวาด
Read the warehouses behind the cafés
The new cafés are a thin layer. The street's real intelligence is its river-to-warehouse grain: narrow fronts, deep plots, loading alleys and families living over trade.
- Typology
- River-trade shophouse and warehouse corridor
- Evidence
- Fine Arts register
- Register / award
- FAD-5646
- ONEP survey
- 2E6-083
- Nearest public transport
- Ratchawongse Pier · 138 m / Wat Mangkon · 597 m
- Shapes to review
- 208 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- OSM street axis · high confidence
Explorer noteWalk west to east in the morning. Notice where goods—not visitors—still set the rhythm.
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▥ Market row19th century onward
Wanit 1–Sampheng fabric
ตึกแถววานิช 1–สำเพ็ง
Bangkok density, before the tower
This is density before towers: tiny frontages, deep stock rooms, handcarts and upper-floor households. It works because the block is porous, not because the buildings are individually grand.
- Typology
- Ultra-fine-grain wholesale shophouse rows
- Evidence
- Fine Arts register
- Register / award
- FAD-5648
- ONEP survey
- 2E6-082
- Nearest public transport
- Wat Mangkon · 345 m / Ratchawongse Pier · 382 m
- Shapes to review
- 262 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- OSM street axis · high confidence
Explorer noteGo before 10am and turn into the narrowest passage that is clearly public; the main street hides the system.
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╫ Commercial streetEarly Chinese river settlement
Talad Noi back lanes
ตรอกตลาดน้อย
Productive mess is the heritage
Half masonry, half timber; shrines, repair shops, reused warehouses and homes sharing lanes too narrow for a curated masterplan. The district is valuable because productive mess survives beside new culture.
- Typology
- Masonry-and-timber shophouse lanes
- Evidence
- Curated corridor
- Nearest public transport
- Hua Lamphong · 677 m / ICONSIAM Pier · 861 m
- Shapes to review
- 188 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- curated connection · medium confidence
Explorer noteCommunity tip: go before 9am or after 4pm; midday heat erases the slow details.
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╫ Commercial streetHistoric Chinatown trade street
Plaeng Nam micro-street
ถนนแปลงนาม
One hundred metres of complete city
Barely one hundred metres, yet it joins Charoen Krung and Yaowarat as a complete cultural cross-section. Small streets often carry more city memory per metre than monumental avenues.
- Typology
- Short food-and-trade shophouse street
- Evidence
- Curated corridor
- ONEP survey
- 2E6-081
- Nearest public transport
- Wat Mangkon · 98 m / Ratchawongse Pier · 648 m
- Shapes to review
- 43 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- OSM street axis · high confidence
Explorer noteTreat it as a connector, not a destination: enter from the temple end and leave into the night market.
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▥ Market rowEarly 20th-century market quarter
Nang Loeng market quarter
ย่านตลาดนางเลิ้ง
Stay after breakfast
Food is the entry point, not the whole story. Behind the market are performance histories, artists' houses, a Vietnamese temple and rows where domestic and commercial life never fully separated.
- Typology
- Market shophouses and timber community lanes
- Evidence
- Curated corridor
- Nearest public transport
- Phan Fa Lilat · 452 m / Thewet · 1009 m
- Shapes to review
- 41 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- documented block extent · medium confidence
Explorer noteArrive for breakfast, then stay after the food crowd leaves and walk the lanes behind the market hall.
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≈ Canal marketHistoric eastern canal settlement
Hua Takhe old canal market
ตลาดเก่าหัวตะเข้
The street is water here
Bangkok's rowhouse story does not end at the old city wall. Here the frontage faces water: timber rooms, workshops and groceries form a long inhabited section through the canal landscape.
- Typology
- Timber rowhouses lining a canal market
- Evidence
- Curated corridor
- Nearest public transport
- Pratunam · 27057 m / Hua Chang · 27760 m
- Shapes to review
- 41 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- curated connection · medium confidence
Explorer noteVisit on a weekday if you want the architecture; weekends tell the visitor-economy story instead.
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▥ Market rowThonburi market settlement
Talat Phlu railway-market rows
ตึกแถวย่านตลาดพลู
A second old Bangkok, west of the river
A useful correction to palace-centred heritage: rail, canal, food trade and ordinary rowhouses made a second old Bangkok on the Thonburi side. The network matters more than a single trophy building.
- Typology
- Rail, road and canal market shophouses
- Evidence
- Curated corridor
- Nearest public transport
- Itsaraphap · 2139 m / Wat Arun Pier · 2945 m
- Shapes to review
- 51 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- OSM street axis · medium confidence
Explorer noteTrace one loop from railway to market to canal. Each infrastructure leaves a different rowhouse edge.
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♜ Royal frontageLate 19th–early 20th century
Tha Phrachan riverfront rows
ตึกแถวท่าพระจันทร์
A repaired frontage is not yet a conserved community
Between the palace-university wall and the river, books, amulets, food and ferry traffic compress into one inhabited edge. Conservation here has already shown its political question: repair the façade, but who gets to remain behind it?
- Typology
- University-and-pier shophouse frontage
- Evidence
- Published count
- Nearest public transport
- Tha Maharaj · 88 m / Tha Chang · 340 m
- Shapes to review
- 150 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- documented block extent · high confidence
Explorer noteWalk from the pier toward Thammasat at opening time; read the upper floors before the pavement becomes a market.
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╫ Commercial streetRama V era onward
Asdang–Ban Mo rowhouse block
กลุ่มตึกแถวอัษฎางค์–พระพิทักษ์–บ้านหม้อ
108 units organised by streets, canal and backlanes
A published spatial survey counted 108 roadside units: 45 on Ban Mo, 16 on Phra Phitak and 47 on Asdang, with later rows inside the block. The canalside superblock shows Bangkok making a commercial quarter through incremental streets and backlanes—not a colonial masterplan.
- Typology
- Roadside and interior rows organised by canal, street and backlane
- Evidence
- Published count
- Published count
- 108 units
- ONEP survey
- 1E1-065 · 3E1-036
- Nearest public transport
- Sam Yot · 207 m / Sanam Chai · 417 m
- Shapes to review
- 56 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- documented block extent · medium confidence
Explorer noteUse Khlong Khu Mueang Doem as your compass, then loop Ban Mo, Phra Phitak and Asdang to read the three different street edges.
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▥ Market rowBuilt 1910
Srasong–Longtha rows
ตึกแถวตรอกสระสรง–ลงท่า
Ninety-eight rentals built as one urban machine
Ninety-eight rental shophouses were laid out in 1910 between Wat Suthat and the Khlong Lod edge near Wat Ratchabophit. Parallel rows and service lanes make an urban machine from rent, water access and temple traffic—dense, practical and unmistakably Bangkok.
- Typology
- Privy Purse rental rows aligned with Khlong Lod and backlanes
- Evidence
- Published count
- Published count
- 98 units
- ONEP survey
- 2E1-075
- Nearest public transport
- Sam Yot · 265 m / Phan Fa Lilat · 862 m
- Shapes to review
- 55 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- documented block extent · medium confidence
Explorer noteEnter from the Wat Suthat side and leave toward Khlong Lod; the backlanes explain the block better than a single façade photograph.
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╫ Commercial streetEarly Charoen Krung road era onward
Phraya Si–Si Kak rows
ตึกแถวถนนพระยาศรี–สี่กั๊กพระยาศรี
A four-way hinge between royal city and port economy
At one of old Bangkok's great four-way junctions, the rows reveal how the first modern roads met an older Mon community and specialist trade. The result is not imported colonial order but a Bangkok hinge—royal city, port street and mercantile lane turning around one another.
- Typology
- Intersection rows linking Charoen Krung, Fueang Nakhon and Ban Mo
- Evidence
- Published count
- ONEP survey
- 2E1-076 · 3E1-038
- Nearest public transport
- Sam Yot · 166 m / Sanam Chai · 591 m
- Shapes to review
- 186 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- OSM street axis · high confidence
Explorer noteStand at Si Kak Phraya Si and rotate slowly: each street carries a different period and trade, but the rowhouse scale holds the junction together.
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▥ Market rowEarly 20th century
Memorial Bridge bridgehead rows
ตึกแถวเชิงสะพานพระพุทธยอดฟ้า–จักรเพชร
The ordinary fabric that makes a bridgehead
The bridge is usually read as infrastructure and Pak Khlong Talat as spectacle. The surveyed rows between them are the missing urban tissue: small commercial bays absorbing flowers, ferries, road traffic and the daily transfer between Thonburi and the old capital.
- Typology
- Bridgehead and market-front rows on the Phra Nakhon bank
- Evidence
- Fine Arts register
- ONEP survey
- 2E1-077 · 2E1-078
- Nearest public transport
- Yodpiman / Pak Khlong Talat · 260 m / Sanam Chai · 645 m
- Shapes to review
- 1 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- documented block extent · medium confidence
Explorer noteWalk from Pak Khlong Talat toward the bridge and look inland before crossing; the edge works as an exchange, not a monument forecourt.
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╫ Commercial street19th–20th century layers
Bang Rak multicultural rows
ตึกแถวพหุวัฒนธรรมบางรัก
Four cultural systems, one ordinary street
Bang Rak is the argument in miniature: Chinese shop signs, South Asian tailoring, western-company streets and Thai alleys occupy the same commercial spine. The heritage is not one approved style; it is difference that learned to share an address.
- Typology
- Chinese, South Asian, Western and Thai shophouse corridor
- Evidence
- Published count
- ONEP survey
- 2E5-080
- Nearest public transport
- ICONSIAM Pier · 640 m / Saphan Taksin · 814 m
- Shapes to review
- 130 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- documented block extent · medium confidence
Explorer noteWalk Charoen Krung from Si Phraya toward Silom and count languages, upstairs access and shop-depth changes—not cafés.
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╫ Commercial street1950s onward
Patpong modern shophouse rows
ตึกแถวสมัยใหม่พัฒน์พงศ์
The postwar city is old enough to study
Heritage does not stop at 1932. Patpong's rows record Bangkok becoming a global service economy: daytime shutters, night businesses and separate stairs that turned upper floors into independent commercial territory.
- Typology
- Two-to-six-storey postwar commercial rows
- Evidence
- Published count
- Nearest public transport
- Surasak · 1529 m / Hua Lamphong · 1875 m
- Shapes to review
- 23 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- documented block extent · high confidence
Explorer noteVisit once by day and once after dark; the same row operates as two different pieces of city.
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≈ Canal market19th-century canal settlement
Nong Chok old market
ตลาดเก่าหนองจอก
Bangkok's old town reaches the rice fields
At the meeting of canals twelve, thirteen and Saen Saep, Chinese timber shops served a largely Muslim agricultural landscape. This is Bangkok too: not fringe, but the eastern half of the capital explaining how water, trade and coexistence built one another.
- Typology
- Timber shophouse rows along Khlong Saen Saep
- Evidence
- Published count
- Nearest public transport
- Pratunam · 37241 m / Hua Chang · 37844 m
- Shapes to review
- 24 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- curated connection · medium confidence
Explorer noteStand on the newer market side and look across the canal; the old commercial frontage makes sense from its former transport route.
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⌂ Community conservationHistoric mixed-faith canal community
Charoen Krung 103 canal-market approach
ตึกแถวทางเข้าชุมชนเจริญกรุง 103
A rowhouse doorway into the canal city
The green-and-cream row is a threshold, not the destination. Pass through it and the arterial city gives way to a small weekend halal market, Buddhist–Muslim neighbourliness and a canal landscape hidden behind Charoen Krung.
- Typology
- Roadside rowhouses leading to a Muslim canal market
- Evidence
- Curated corridor
- Nearest public transport
- Asiatique · 416 m / Sathorn Pier · 2221 m
- Shapes to review
- 56 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- curated connection · medium confidence
Explorer noteThe canal market opens only on the first Saturday and Sunday of each month; the rowhouse approach is legible every day.
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⌂ Community conservationHistoric Khlong San trading community
Dilok Chan lane
ตรอกดิลกจันทร์–ชุมชนสมเด็จย่า
The port survives as a lane
A tiny lane holds the afterimage of a larger port economy—salt sheds, fish-sauce works, export trade and the Guan Yu shrine. The important space is not a monument but the narrow public room made by rowhouses around collective memory.
- Typology
- River-trade lane enclosed by ordinary rowhouses
- Evidence
- Curated corridor
- Nearest public transport
- Yodpiman / Pak Khlong Talat · 507 m / Sanam Chai · 853 m
- Shapes to review
- 8 unverified candidates
- Map geometry
- curated connection · medium confidence
Explorer noteEnter from Princess Mother Memorial Park and keep walking toward the Guan Yu shrine; the lane reveals its river logic gradually.