Charoen Krung Riverside

เจริญกรุง — The first road, reborn creative

The old riverside: trading-house warehouses, galleries, Talat Noi's lanes and a boat at every pier.

Bangkok's oldest paved road runs its riverfront mile through the old European quarter: 19th-century trading houses, Assumption Cathedral's spires, the Mandarin Oriental's lawns — now spliced with the Creative District's galleries, TCDC's design library and warehouse cafés. Riverside hotels come at every price. Staying here means ferries instead of the BTS, sunsets over Thonburi, and the most atmospheric base on the Bangkok side of the water.

Don't miss

• ๑TCDC & Warehouse 30Creative

  The design library and warehouse compound that seeded the district.

• ๒River CityArts mall

  Auction houses and antiques on the pier — art fairs by the water.

• ๓Assumption CathedralLandmark

  The red-brick cathedral at the heart of the old quarter.

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