TopChatuchak
Located: 10 kms North of Siam centre
Access: Excellent Star rating: 3 to 4
Valued for money: Excellent Duration: Min 4hrs
This zone features the largest weekend market in Asia.
If your a seasoned shopping you can handle it but it's sooooo big! Next door is beautiful parks and gardens and close by are several tourism attractions noted in the family link.
Both BTS (skytrain) and MRT (Subway) pass through this zone, stopping within a few hundred metres, the brief walk will pass by many street vendors and traders offering souvenirs and the like.
BTS skytrain & MRT Pass through this area
Land: Taxi: car / tuktuk / motor bike is frequent Water: River & canal ferry close by
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- Chatuchak or JJ Markets
THE MARKET! 10,000 stalls, sells everything from furniture to jewellery, paintings, art supplies and Thai artifacts.
Section 8,9,1,13,15,17,19,25,26, and 27 are open on Friday.
Very cheap crockery. Open: weekends,
Officially 08.00-18.00, some shops not open until 10.00.
Freight service for overseas sending are on site.
- Railway Markets It's grabbed the attention of the city's hipsters, retro freaks and antique hunters Talad Rot Fai.
"Talad" means market and "Rot Fai" means train, an apt name for a market set beside an old set of train tracks.
Open: every Fri-Sat-Sun 2 pm to midnight.
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