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Yaowarat Road is an attraction in Chinatown (Yaowarat). It is the main street of the district, known for gold shops and street food that draws crowds after dark. The hotels below sit closest to the road.
Ordered by walking time, then star rating and guest score. Times are estimates from each hotel's map position (straight-line distance plus a quarter for streets, at 5 km/h); check the route before you go.
The nearest hotel to Yaowarat Road, Chinatown Heritage is a 4-star address 20 m from the street — about a minute on foot. Free Wifi keeps you connected between food stops, and stepping out of the door puts you straight into the gold shops by day and the wok stations by night.
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Pho Place is a 3-star hotel 30 m from Yaowarat Road, roughly a minute's walk, which makes it an easy base for an evening of street food. Air conditioning gives you a cool room to return to, and a guest score of 4.3 out of 5 from 403 reviews backs it up.
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Rema sits 90 m from Yaowarat Road, about a minute on foot, so the street's evening food carts are practically on the doorstep. The 3-star hotel provides air conditioning and Free Wifi, suiting travellers who want a simple room right in the middle of Chinatown.
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ZEN Rooms Yaowarat soi 7 is 70 m from Yaowarat Road, a minute's walk, placing guests just off the main food strip. The 3-star property offers parking, air conditioning and Free Wifi — handy if you arrive by car and plan to explore Chinatown on foot.
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New Empire Hotel is 50 m from Yaowarat Road, about a minute on foot, and the closest Samphanthawong option in this list. The 2-star hotel has a guest score of 3.8 out of 5 from 165 reviews, and its position makes early walks to Talat Kao and Sampeng Lane straightforward.
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home22 Private Residence is a 4-star hotel 140 m from Yaowarat Road, a 2-minute walk. Family rooms, air conditioning and Free Wifi cover groups and longer stays, with the street-food stretch and gold shops close enough to visit on foot at any hour.
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The Orientale is 120 m from Yaowarat Road — 2 minutes on foot — and holds a guest score of 4.6 out of 5 from 68 reviews. The 3-star hotel offers family rooms, air conditioning and Free Wifi, a good fit for travellers who want a well-rated base beside the evening food carts.
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ZEN Rooms Basic Chinatown Bangkok is 150 m from Yaowarat Road, a 2-minute walk, with a guest score of 4.2 out of 5 from 10 reviews. The 3-star hotel has a bar/lounge, air conditioning and Free Wifi, so you can start or end a street-food evening close to the road.
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China Town Hotel is a 3-star property 140 m from Yaowarat Road, about 2 minutes on foot, with a guest score of 3.9 out of 5 from 608 reviews. Free Wifi is provided, and the location puts the Chinatown market alleys and evening stalls within a short walk.
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Chinatown Hostel is a 2-star base 150 m from Yaowarat Road, a 2-minute walk, with Free Wifi. It suits travellers who want to sleep steps from the street-food action and spend their time out among the gold shops, Sampeng Lane and Talat Kao rather than in the room.
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Staying on or just off the road puts you inside the market and food stalls rather than a taxi ride away. Hotels near Yaowarat Road include Chinatown Heritage at 20 m, Pho Place at 30 m and Rema at 90 m, all roughly a minute on foot, plus The Orientale at 120 m and China Town Hotel at 140 m. Rooms here are practical, with the street's gold shops and evening wok stations right outside.
The closest hotels make Yaowarat Road a doorstep address. From Chinatown Heritage at 20 m and Pho Place at 30 m the walk is about a minute; New Empire Hotel at 50 m, ZEN Rooms Yaowarat soi 7 at 70 m and Rema at 90 m are all within the same minute on foot. A slightly longer stretch — The Orientale, Our Secret Base Hostel and home22 Private Residence at 120 m, and China Town Hotel, Chinatown Hostel and U Tor Yaowarat at 140-160 m — takes 2 minutes, so guests staying there simply step out and walk. For anyone further afield, the MRT Blue Line reached the area in 2019 via Wat Mangkon station on Charoen Krung Road, which makes arriving by transit straightforward. Arriving from the airports means a longer drive or taxi ride into Chinatown, since the road sits deep in the old city.
Yaowarat Road is the spine of Bangkok's Chinatown, running roughly 1.5km from the Ong Ang canal to Odeon Circle. It is the oldest Chinatown in the world outside China. By day it is the country's gold-trading centre: red-lettered gold shops with kilo bars in the window, pawnshops and traditional Chinese medicine halls that have stayed in the same family since Rama V. From 6pm onward the same street turns into one of the planet's great street-food strips — whole roast ducks hanging in windows, wok stations pushed onto the pavement, mango-and-sticky-rice carts and oyster omelettes crackling on iron plates. The layout is dense and confusing on purpose: the Ratanakosin masterplan never reached here, so Chinatown grew as a Chinese immigrant district on its own logic. Sampeng Lane, one alley south of Yaowarat, is the original textile market and still packed with wholesale merchants on weekday mornings; Talat Kao, running north from Yaowarat, is fresh produce, dried seafood and pork. The MRT Blue Line finally reached the area in 2019, at Wat Mangkon station on Charoen Krung Road, making the neighbourhood accessible without a taxi for the first time. Yaowarat suits food-first and culture travellers; light sleepers should note the street runs late.
Chinatown Heritage is the closest hotel we list, about 1 min walk · 20 m from Yaowarat Road in a straight line, in Bangkok.
Yes: 179 of the hotels we list are within 1 km of Yaowarat Road, about a 15-minute walk, and 99 are within 500 m. The closest is Chinatown Heritage, 20 m away.
OYO 505 Ente Space Hostel list free parking on their own page. Check the hotel page for the details.
Shanghai Mansion Bangkok has the best guest score of the hotels near Yaowarat Road: 4.4/5 from 2,471 reviews, 180 m away.
39 of the hotels we list within 1 km of Yaowarat Road have 4 or 5 stars, the nearest being Chinatown Heritage (20 m).
Yes, if food is the reason for your trip. The street switches to street-food mode from 6pm onward, and the closest hotels — Chinatown Heritage at 20 m, Pho Place at 30 m and Rema at 90 m — are all in the list, so you can eat late and walk back in a minute.
The MRT Blue Line reached the area in 2019 at Wat Mangkon station on Charoen Krung Road. From there it is a short walk into Chinatown, which makes the neighbourhood accessible without a taxi for the first time — useful if you are arriving from elsewhere in the city with luggage.