Sukhumvit Road at On Nut, Bangkok, Thailand

On nut is currently the terminal station for Sky Train, but not for long, the soon to be opened extension to near Samrong will be welcomed by many. Tesco / Lotus have a huge store here which is home too many of the big name food restaurants like Macdonald's & MK. This is not a good area to be in around 17.00 hours, when all the workers finish work.

The bus's are packed to overflowing, there are long queues for the Taxi's. That is why many workers will be pleased when the Sky Train continues to near Samrong and Samut Prakan where so many Bangkok workers live.

There is a busy market here where most of the stalls open night time, there are many stalls that sell beer, food, items for the household, clothes & ornaments.

For those that do not know MK restaurants they offer a very reasonable bar-b-que where you cook items of food at the table. You just keep adding as much or as little as you want, many just put everything in at once and make like a Thai stew come casserole come soup.
Sukhumvit Road or Thailand Route 3 is a major highway in Thailand, and a major service road of Bangkok and other cities it winds through. It follows a coastal route from Bangkok to Trat and is just over 400 km in length.

Sukhumvit Road is named after the fifth chief of the Department of Highways, Phra Bisal Sukhumvit. It is one of the four major highways of Thailand, along with Phahonyothin Road ( Route 1 ), Mittraphap Road ( Route 2 ) and Phetkasem Road ( Route 4 ) Sukhumvit Road begins in Bangkok, as a continuation of Rama I Road and Phloen Chit Road. Roads which span Pathum Wan district. Starting from where the boundaries of the districts of Khlong Toei, Pathum Wan and Watthana meet, it runs the entire length of the border between Khlong Toei and Watthana, then passes through Phra Khanong and Bang Na districts.

It then crosses the border between Bangkok and Samut Prakan Province and subsequently continues east through Chachoengsao Province, south through Chonburi Province, east through Rayong Province, south - east through Chanthaburi Province, and ends in the town of Trat, capital of Trat Province, about 100 km short of the Hat Lek border crossing with Cambodia.

In Chonburi Province it passes through the towns of Chon Buri City, Laem Chabang, Bang Lamung township, Sri Racha and Pattaya.

In the capital, Sukhumvit Road serves as a main commercial street, and this section is often congested, even at late evening hours. The Chalerm Mahanakhon Expressway has an exit at Soi 1. and Ratchadaphisek Road crosses Sukhumvit at the Asoke intersection.

The Sukhumvit area of Bangkok is easily accessible on the Sky train Sukhumvit Line, which runs from Mo Chit through the Silom Line interchange at Siam Square up to On Nut on Soi ( side street ) 81. The Bangkok Metro's Sukhumvit Station interchanges with the Sky train at Asoke.The Soi's are numbered from West to East, with odd numbers branching off North East of Sukhumvit, and even numbers branching off South West.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Sukhumvit Road
• Bangkok
• Sky Train
• Station
• Markets in Bangkok