Heritage walk · Market & performance
The shortest walk in the set and the best fed: Bangkok's first land market, its wooden cinema, and the temple of the quarter, all within six hundred metres. Go before noon — the market's third-generation food row sells out early.
The line is a real street-following walking route (OSRM foot profile, © OpenStreetMap contributors) — 1.1 km, about 14 minutes at walking pace. Follow the numbers.
Opened by Rama V in 1899 as the city's first purpose-built land market; the wooden shophouse ensemble around the yard is register-protected as a single monument.
A wooden picture-house of 1918 that ran for seventy-five years — one of the last of its kind in Southeast Asia, restored inside the market block. Register row fad-5538.
101 m from stop 1 · 1 min walk
The community temple of the likay and dance families — the quarter's performers still make offerings here before a season opens.
247 m from stop 2 · 3 min walk
Rama IV's 1853 memorial temple for Queen Sommanat, moated like a miniature city — its Khrua In Khong murals paint Buddhist allegory as 19th-century America, complete with steamships.
702 m from stop 3 · 9 min walk