If your time in the capital of Thailand is limited but you still want to experience a floating market in Bangkok, Taling Chan Floating Market can be an easy choice. You can easily visit it if you are staying in Bangkok on the weekend. Wondering how to get to Taling Chan Floating Market from Bangkok? Discover all transport options and choose the best way to travel to this Bangkok floating market.
Taling Chan Floating Market is located in front of Taling Chan District Office. This floating market is close enough to central Bangkok, and getting there is easier than to any other floating market in Bangkok.
Pay attention that Taling Chan Floating Market is open only on Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays.
Taling Chan Floating Market Tour
As Taling Chan Floating Market is basically a small market with a handful of boats cooking food around it and it can be easily visited independently, there are not many tours that would be bringing tourists to this floating market.
However, when taking a customized private long-tail boat hire on the weekend, the floating market can be included in the itinerary.
Another option is joining one of the food tours that visit the market. You can sample bite-sized Thai foods while exploring the lively Taling Chan Floating Market and enjoy a fun and tasty adventure on this Bangkok Bite-Sized Food Tour at the Floating Market.
Bus to Taling Chan Floating Market
You can take Bangkok bus No. 79 directly to the market. The bus route passes main touristy areas such as CentralWorld (Ratchadamri Road), Pratunam, Democracy Monument (opposite Suksapan), and Ratchadamnoen Road. Our trip from Pratunam Area to the floating market took about 45 minutes.
You can easily buy a ticket from the conductor on the bus. The fare varies depending on your location but it will be less than 30 baht. Just tell them that you will go to Taling Chan and they will ensure that you got out at the correct bus stop.
For getting a bus back to the city, go to the opposite side of the Taling Chan Floating Market and get on the bus near 7-eleven convenience store. On the way back, the bus route will be a bit of different as it doesn’t go to Pratunam but stops at Ratchathewi BTS station, Siam BTS station, and then gets back to CentralWorld.
Floating Market by Bus & Songthaew or Walk
You can take a Bangkok bus No. 28, 515, 159 from Victory Monument, drop off at Taling Chan Police Station, and then take a songthaew at 7-eleven to Taling Chan Floating Market, or just walk, as the distance from there to the floating market is only 1.2 km.
Taling Chan Floating Market by Bangkok Metro
To get to the floating market, you can combine different Bangkok metro lines with a taxi or bus ride.
BTS & Taxi
You can take the BTS Green Line to Bang Wa station and then get a taxi to the Taling Chan Floating Market, with the trip generally costing 100-150 THB.
MRT & Bus or Taxi
You can take the MRT Blue Line to Bang Khun Non station and then get on a free electric BMA Feeder bus that is going to 4 floating markets in the Taling Chan area, with bus departures scheduled every 30 minutes from 09:00 to 17:30.
If you don't want to wait for the bus, take a taxi to the Taling Chan Floating Market from the MRT station, with the trip generally costing 70-100 THB.
SRT & Taxi
You can take the SRT Red Line to Taling Chan station and then get a taxi to the Taling Chan Floating Market, with the trip generally costing 70-90 THB.
Taling Chan Floating Market by Bangkok Boat
You can also combine Bangkok public boat services with other means of public transportation to get to the floating market.
BTS & Boat & Bus
You can take the BTS Silom Line to Saphan Taksin Station (Exit 2) and then take the Chao Phraya Express Boat to Phra Pinklao Bridge Pier, where you can take a public bus No. 79.
Boat & Songthaew
You can take the orange flag Chao Phraya Express Boat or cross-river ferry to the Wang Lang Pier (pier N10). From the pier, you can hop on one of the songthaews that loop between the pier and the Thonburi Railway Station (Bangkok Noi) or you can walk for about 1 km and then take another songtaew (red one) to Taling Chan Floating Market. Not all songtaews go to the market, make sure to ask the driver before getting on one.
Taxi to Taling Chan Floating Market
Taking a Bangkok taxi is by far the fastest and easiest way to get to the Taling Chan Floating Market from central Bangkok. The cost of the trip will depend on the place where you are staying. If you are staying around the Khao San Road area, the taxi will cost you about 120-200 baht each way.
Tips
Taling Chan Floating Market and Khlong Lat Mayom Floating Market are not that far from one another and can both be visited on the same day. Even if Taling Chan Floating Market is much smaller, it gets more tourists. If the atmosphere at Taling Chan Floating Market won’t feel authentic enough, head to Khlong Lat Mayom Floating Market and experience real local shopping there with even more traditional Thai foods to choose from.
If you are looking to visit a Bangkok floating market on weekday, your only choice is Damnoen Saduak. The best way to visit it is this combined Damnoen Saduak Market and Maeklong Railway Market tour, which is the most popular day trip from Bangkok.
