How to get there:
The best way to get here is to get the Skytrain to Mo Chit station, which is only about five minutes walk away from the market. Finding your way from the station is easy - just follow the large crowd of people that will also be heading to/from there. Alternatively, many buses go past here. To get a taxi ask for “Talad Jatujak” (Talad stands for “Market”).

Jatujak is clearly the mother of all Bangkok markets. But to label Jatujak as simply a market is to do it a disservice of epic proportions.

While it is indeed a shopper’s paradise, Jatujak is also a microcosm of the entire country. On any given weekend, Thailand’s rich and Thailand’s poor, Thailand’s old and Thailand’s young, Thailand’s urban and Thailand’s rural, Thailand’s tourists and Thailand’s Thais can all be found mingling, meandering and merging in the stifling, clogged lanes of Jatujak Market.

While one end of their massive amalgam of humanity throbs with rural farmers hawking their earthen wares, the other pulses with urban youths sitting in cramped cafés sipping their afternoon away.
It is this uncertainty, this chance of a treasure around every corner that makes Jatujak what it is.

Wandering down the twisting, turning aisles of clothing, crafts, furniture, flowers, antiques and animals is such a mesmerising delight that overheated explorers can hardly fathom making an escape.

Chatuchak is the hub of grass-roots Thai fashion move,ent that draws its energy not from international labels but from Thai designers. They are often self-taught and come armed with a concept, a strong aesthetic sense, and enough start-up cash to rent one of the nearly 15,000 closet-sized stalls spread over Chatuchak’s 14 hectares, or 35 acres.
A stroll through Chatuchak is like a fashion treasure hunt. You elbow your way slowly through its narrow lanes, called “sois”, passing entire shops devoted to a single item.

The main part of Chatuchak is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Additionally, the plant section is open on Wednesdays and Thursdays (6:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.) as well.

Moreover, on Fridays, you will find wholesale shops ready to welcome you from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. On Fridays, cars are allowed in JJ but not on Saturdays and Sundays.

Up to the present time, there are 27 sections in Chatuchak Weekend Market, to name a few, clothing and accessories, handicraft products, leatherware, household decorative items, pets and pet-related products, and plants and gardening tools.