Old road on the Saen Saep canal, express boats passing the window
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Phetchaburi MRT station sits underground at the intersection of Asok Road and New Phetchaburi Road. From the station, a covered skywalk takes you to the Airport Rail Link's Makkasan station. The same station also connects to the Saen Saep canal express boat, which runs parallel to Phetchaburi Road.
At ground level, directly beneath the Airport Rail Link station, is the State Railway of Thailand's Asok halt. One intersection stacks the MRT, the Airport Rail Link, mainline trains and the boat.
The Airport Rail Link runs every day from 5:30 AM to midnight, and two stops west at Phaya Thai you can transfer to the BTS Sukhumvit Line. The catch is that MRT and Airport Rail Link tickets aren't interchangeable, so transferring means buying a separate ticket.
Transit ranks 5th out of 32 neighborhoods in Bangkok. Based on our street photos, sidewalks rank 4th, making it easier to walk to the station here than in most neighborhoods.
For anyone settling in long term, this area is a transit corridor, not a dense residential neighborhood: Makkasan subdistrict had 15,815 residents in 2020, averaging about 69 people per hectare. That average, though, includes the land taken up by the State Railway of Thailand's Makkasan railway workshop inside the subdistrict.
The Makkasan area is considered one of the most traffic-congested spots in Bangkok. Daily conveniences are also on the weak side: shopping ranks 29th and healthcare ranks 21st. The nearest major hospital is Bangkok Hospital, outside the neighborhood to the east, with 488 beds.
Phetchaburi Road opened in 1905 and got its current name in 1919; in 1962 it was extended eastward to Khlong Tan, and that extended stretch became New Phetchaburi Road.
MRT Phetchaburi station opened in July 2004. The Airport Rail Link's Makkasan station opened in August 2010, originally meant to serve as an in-town airport check-in point, but the check-in counters were gone by September 2014.
Starting February 1, 2027, the Airport Rail Link will be operated by a subsidiary of the State Railway of Thailand; reports say the handover won't affect passengers.
The contract for the High-Speed Rail Linking Three Airports was signed in 2019, with the operator set to develop 140.8 rai of land around Makkasan station; the official target for opening is 2031. But by July 2026 construction still hadn't started, and the operator wrote to ask for the contract to be terminated.
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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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