Two BTS lines meet, skywalks link malls and supermarkets, crowds right outside your door
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Siam Square is an open-air district with over 4,200 shops, and the people who come here most are students, since the area has at least 30 tutoring schools. At least 400,000 people pass through here every day, so if you live around here, you step outside straight into the crowds. The heart of all that foot traffic is BTS Siam station, where the Sukhumvit Line and Silom Line interchange on the same platform. From the station, you can take the skywalk west to MBK or east to Chit Lom station without stepping down to street level. MBK has a Tops supermarket and a food court inside, so grocery shopping and meals are just a skybridge walk away.
Because two lines meet here, this neighborhood ranks 1st out of 32 Bangkok neighborhoods for transit, so commuting is smooth no matter which direction you're headed. Medical care is close by too — it ranks 1st for healthcare, with Police General Hospital about 250 meters outside the neighborhood. About 1.2 km to the south, there's also the 1,435-bed King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. If you feel like a walk or a workout, Chulalongkorn University Centenary Park, roughly 450 meters outside the neighborhood, is open daily from 5am to 10pm.
Siam is first and foremost a shopping district, and together with Ratchaprasong it's known as one of the two major shopping areas of Pathum Wan district. Places to live here include the serviced apartments behind Siam Paragon, which share a site with the Kempinski hotel. For a traditional fresh market you have to leave the neighborhood: Sam Yan Market is about 700 meters south. About 1 km away, Samyan Mitrtown has a Big C supermarket, plus a free 24-hour reading and co-working space.
King Rama IV planted lotuses in this area and built the Pathum Wan (Lotus Grove) villa here, which is where the district's name comes from. Siam Square started out as a cluster of wooden houses; it wasn't rebuilt into an open-air shopping district until after a fire, with the first building breaking ground in 1962. MBK opened in 1985, when it was the largest shopping mall in Asia. Siam Paragon opened in 2005, on land that was originally the royal grounds of Sa Pathum Palace.
Compared with the 32 Bangkok neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
HA-accredited hospitals (excluding specialist institutes such as psychiatric and infectious-disease hospitals), schools and universities within 1 km (only those with an English name on OpenStreetMap; Bangkok publishes no school catchments), stations, parks of 1 ha or more, and large shopping malls and department stores.
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