Design boutiques and Japanese izakayas on Bangkok's long, stylish soi
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Thong Lo is a trendy long soi, loved by both Bangkok locals and long-term expats, with fashion boutiques, designer concept stores, and cocktail bars lining the soi. Comparing it to Siam Square (the downtown Bangkok shopping district for young people) isn't an exaggeration. This area is home to quite a few Japanese expats, so the soi also has plenty of Japanese restaurants, izakayas, bakeries, and Japanese specialty shops. Soi 13 alone, the "Japan Village," has gathered about ten Japanese restaurants. The whole soi runs from BTS Thong Lo station all the way to the Saen Saep Canal.
Midway down the soi there are two community-style malls — the one at the mouth of Soi 15 is Market Place Thonglor. The Commons on Soi 17 was designed from the start to be the "backyard" of the Thong Lo community. Based on our street photos, Thong Lo ranks 7th out of 32 Bangkok neighborhoods for greenery. For healthcare, deep in the soi there's Camillian Hospital, founded by a Catholic religious order. Walk to the canal at the end of the soi and you can catch an express boat west into the city center.
Trendy as it is, this whole neighborhood only has one BTS station — Thong Lo — so transit ranks just 25th out of 32 neighborhoods. The soi is also long: walking from the station to the malls and hospital deep inside can be a kilometer and a half or so. Daily shopping convenience ranks 21st too, so you might have to walk a bit further to get what you need.
The soi is named after a person — one account says it's after landowner Thonglo Khamhiran, who took part in the 1932 revolution that turned Thailand into a constitutional monarchy. Another account says it's named after a real estate developer from the same era. When it was built around 1958, it was just a small road flanked by a canal on both sides, and by around 1960 it was only 5 meters wide. Later, the soi was mostly filled with car showrooms and unremarkable little shops. Between 1997 and 2002, many homes were converted into storefronts, and with the BTS opening in 1999, the commercial street gradually took shape. By the early 2000s, boutiques, restaurants, and cocktail bars moved in one after another, and Thong Lo grew increasingly trendy.
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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