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ASIATIQUE SKY

The principal vertical landmark of the ASIATIQUE The Riverfront complex on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River in southern Bangkok, ASIATIQUE SKY is a sixty-metre-tall observation Ferris wheel that provides one of the principal panoramic viewing experiences over the southern Bangkok cityscape. The wheel was opened in December 2012 as one of the original anchor attractions of the wider ASIATIQUE riverfront night market and shopping complex. The wheel was originally installed under the bran.....

ASIATIQUE The Riverfront

Opened in April 2012 on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River in the Bang Kho Laem district of southern Bangkok, ASIATIQUE The Riverfront is one of the largest open-air shopping and entertainment complexes in Thailand and combines a traditional Thai night market with substantial dining, entertainment and retail components. The complex occupies the converted former waterfront site of the East Asiatic Company, a major Danish trading firm whose Bangkok warehouses had occupied the site continuou.....

Blue Elephant Bangkok Thai Restaurant & Cooking School

Set in a restored colonial-era mansion on South Sathorn Road in the central commercial district of Bangkok, the Blue Elephant Bangkok is one of the most distinguished high-end Thai restaurants in the capital and the principal flagship of an international Thai restaurant network with branches in London, Paris, Brussels, Copenhagen, Lyon, Malta, Beirut and Phuket. The Bangkok flagship opened in 2002 in the converted Thai-Chinese Chamber of Commerce building, one of the few surviving early twentiet.....

Calypso Cabaret at ASIATIQUE

The longest-running transgender cabaret venue in central Bangkok, the Calypso Cabaret moved into its current purpose-built theatre at the ASIATIQUE The Riverfront complex in February 2013 after relocating from its previous twenty-five-year home at the Asia Hotel on Phayathai Road. The Calypso traces its history back to 1988 and is the principal flagship of the Thai kathoey cabaret tradition, with substantially the longest continuous performance history of any of the surviving transgender cabaret.....

ICONSIAM

Opened on 9 November 2018 on the western Thonburi bank of the Chao Phraya River in the Khlong San district of Bangkok, ICONSIAM is the largest luxury shopping complex in Thailand and one of the principal commercial landmarks of the modern Thai capital. The complex covers around five hundred and twenty-five thousand square metres of gross floor area across seven retail levels and was the largest single private property development in Thai history at the time of completion. The development was ca.....

Jurassic World - The Experience Bangkok

Opened on 8 August 2025 in a purpose-built six-thousand-square-metre attraction zone at the ASIATIQUE The Riverfront destination in southern Bangkok, Jurassic World The Experience is the first permanent location-based attraction of the famous Jurassic World film franchise anywhere in South-East Asia and one of the most substantial new immersive entertainment attractions to open in the Thai capital during the post-pandemic recovery period. The development was carried out by the Thai Asset World .....

Mahanakhon Skywalk

Opened on 16 November 2018 on the seventy-fourth, seventy-fifth and seventy-eighth floors of the King Power Mahanakhon skyscraper on Narathiwas Road in the central Silom district of Bangkok, the Mahanakhon Skywalk is the highest publicly accessible observation deck in Thailand and one of the most internationally recognised individual observation experiences anywhere in central Bangkok. The principal seventy-eighth-floor outdoor deck at three hundred and fourteen metres above ground level provide.....

Pak Khlong Talat

A continuous twenty-four-hour wholesale flower market on the bank of the Chao Phraya River in the historic Phra Nakhon district of central Bangkok, Pak Khlong Talat is one of the largest single flower markets in South-East Asia and the principal wholesale flower distribution hub for the entire Thai central region. The market has been operating in various forms on the same general site continuously for more than two hundred years and provides the principal supply of fresh-cut flowers to florists,.....

River City Bangkok

A specialist antiques and Asian art shopping complex on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River in the Talat Noi district of central Bangkok, River City Bangkok has been the principal Asian antiquities retail centre of the Thai capital continuously since the original opening of the building in 1985. The four-storey building contains around one hundred and twenty individual specialist shops covering Asian antiques, contemporary Asian art, traditional Thai handicrafts and the various supplementa.....

Sampeng market

A continuous narrow street market running for approximately one kilometre through the heart of the Chinatown district of central Bangkok, Sampeng Lane is one of the oldest continuously operating wholesale markets anywhere in Thailand and the principal source of low-priced general merchandise for retail traders across the wider Thai central region. The market has been operating in various forms on the same general site continuously since the early nineteenth century. The market takes its name fr.....