roadRatchadamnoen Road
ถนนราชดำเนิน · Thanon Ratchadamnoen
Gate to temple, 1.5 km, and one-way since 2021 so people can walk it.
Niels Elgaard Larsen - User: (WT-shared) Elgaard at wts wikivoyage · CC BY-SA 3.0from Tha Phae Gate to Wat Phra Singh
18.7880, 98.9880 · OpenStreetMap · The map
What it is
The old city's spine, from Tha Phae Gate west to Wat Phra Singh, about 1.5 km. The Sunday walking street moved here on 31 August 2004 from Tha Phae Road. From 6 May 2021 the municipality made it one-way as part of a walkable-district pilot.
The long version
Inference — it is the founding axis of 1296, and it has been a road for pedestrians one day a week since 2004 and a one-way road every day since 2021. Inside the moat, the old streets are being handed back to feet in stages.

Connected to
- The walking street, and how a road becomes a floor Sundays.
- Tha Phae Gate Its east end.
- The moat loop The other one-way system.
Named here by
- The walking street, and how a road becomes a floor The road.
- Why the moat runs one way The inside one-way.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | ประวัติถนนคนเดินท่าแพ–ราชดำเนิน — Chiang Mai Municipality | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated |
Sources
- ประวัติถนนคนเดินท่าแพ–ราชดำเนิน — Chiang Mai Municipality
- ราชดำเนินเดินรถทางเดียว 6 พ.ค. 2564 — เตียว-หย้อง-เมืองเชียงใหม่ — Chiang Mai News
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there