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Yaowarat's half-day is lanes by day and the street at night. Order: the golden Buddha at Hua Lamphong, one stretch among Talat Noi, Song Wat or Sampeng, then back to the main street at Wat Mangkon station; the temple itself is a daytime stop, and dinner is one stall. The boat is not this axis. MRT Blue Line to Hua Lamphong or Wat Mangkon, and that payment is not Rabbit. Memorial Bridge reaches the flower market, which is an old-town dusk — do not add Wat Pho and the palace because of it. Asiatique is another night.
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Yaowarat is the stop because the main street turns itself on at night: gold shops, stalls and temple mouths on one road. By day the substance is in the lanes, not on this lit street. Half a day: one afternoon stretch among Talat Noi, Song Wat or Sampeng, then back to the main street, one stall (Nai Mong or another), then stop. Do not add a mall across the river, and do not put Asiatique on the same night.
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Wat Mangkon is the stop because it is Yaowarat's largest Chinese temple, and it sets Chinatown as temple by day and street at night. Half a day: MRT Wat Mangkon into the temple, cover shoulders and knees, then one stall on the main street at dusk. Sampeng and Leng Buai Ia are the same walk. Do not treat night-market lights as visiting hours, and do not add Asiatique or Siam.
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Wat Traimit is the stop for the golden Buddha upstairs, a walk from Hua Lamphong that anchors Chinatown's afternoon at the station end. Half a day: MRT Hua Lamphong upstairs, then Talat Noi or the main street at dusk, one stall, stop. Do not taxi back to the palace, and do not add a mall. Charge and opening follow the temple that day.
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Sampeng is the daytime wholesale lane, not the night main street. Half a day: walk one stretch from Wat Mangkon or Hua Lamphong, come out at Phahurat for cloth, and stop; leave luggage at the hotel. At night, one stall on Yaowarat. If you pick this lane, do not also force Song Wat; a Siam mall, Chatuchak, Asiatique and Khaosan are not the same day.
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Talat Noi is the stop for old warehouses, murals and river lanes, quieter than Yaowarat's main street. Half a day: MRT Hua Lamphong, optionally the golden Buddha then the lanes, or one deep Talat Noi stretch; at dusk one stall on the main street at Wat Mangkon, then stop. No large luggage; if Song Wat or Sampeng already ran, do not force them in, and Asiatique or a Siam mall is not the same day. Shop hours follow the doors; there is no gate ticket.
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Song Wat is the stop for warehouse cafes and old houses — Yaowarat's quiet afternoon stretch. Half a day: walk from MRT Hua Lamphong or Talat Noi, go deep on this one road, then one stall on the main street at Wat Mangkon at dusk. If you pick this, do not also force Sampeng; Siam, Asiatique, Khaosan, Ratchada or the palace do not follow.
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Odeon Circle is the Chinatown gate used as a landmark — do not stand in the roundabout. How to connect: align Wat Traimit, the main street and Wat Kanmatuyaram from here; temples and lanes by day, main street at night, one food stall. Do not add a mall across the river, and do not bounce to the palace. The gate itself has no ticket; use it only to orient.
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Phahurat is Indian cloth and wholesale on the same daytime walk as Sampeng — not the night-market main stage. How to close: one Yaowarat daytime lane deep, then one stall on the main street at dusk; do not take luggage into the wholesale lanes. Do not add Asiatique or a Siam mall. Shop hours follow the site; no gate ticket is frozen here.
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Wat Kanmatuyaram is ten quiet minutes in a side lane — a buffer before the night market, not a main temple. How to use it: walk from Odeon Circle or Wat Traimit, cover shoulders and knees, then one stall on Yaowarat at dusk; do not add Asiatique, Ratchada or bounce to the palace. Opening follows the door that day.
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Leng Buai Ia is an old Chinese shrine a step from Wat Mangkon — a short stop on Chinatown's daytime axis. How to close: after Wat Mangkon from MRT Wat Mangkon, add this walk, then one stall on the main street at dusk; Sampeng can be the same stretch. Do not add a mall across the river, and do not bounce to the palace. Opening and donations follow the door that day.
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Nai Mong is the oyster stall on Yaowarat's main street, not a second famous table. Chinatown at night keeps this one meal (or one other stall on the street), then leave at Wat Mangkon; daytime lanes and Talat Noi are another stretch. Do not add Asiatique, Khaosan or the Ratchada train market. Hours follow the door; prices are not frozen here.
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Walk to Odeon Circle and close on this stretch of the same axis.
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Walk to Song Wat Road and close on this stretch of the same axis.