Railway market where a train passes through the stalls
Maeklong Railway Market (Talad Rom Hup)
Mae Klong, Muang Samut Songkhram District, Samut Songkhram province (day trip from Bangkok), Samut Songkhram, Thailand
A fully working fresh-produce market laid directly on a live railway line. As each train approaches, vendors fold back their awnings and slide their baskets clear so it can inch through inches from the food, then everything resets the moment it has passed. Locals call it Talad Rom Hup, the folding-umbrella market.
The Maeklong Railway Market itself, stalls and awnings set directly along the live railway track in Samut Songkhram. Photo by Codas, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Hours
Booking site listingOpen daily (7 days a week), 6:20 am to 5:40 pm. These hours align with the first and last train arrivals at Maeklong Station.
“The Maeklong Railway Market is open 7 days a week from 6:20 am to 5:40 pm.”
kkday.com · Checked 24 Jul 2026
Price
Single reportMarket entry is free of charge. Combined day-tour packages that include Maeklong are sold separately by operators, but those are packaged tours, not a market admission fee.
“Market Fee: Free of charge”
yourthaiguide.com · Checked 24 Jul 2026
Age suitability
Not verifiedNot verified. No source we checked states this, so it stays blank instead of guessed.
Checked 24 Jul 2026
Caveats
VERIFY run 2026-07-24: I re-fetched all three cited sources fresh this run. Hours: the kkday page renders as a normal article and contains the sentence verbatim, so the value is confirmed as booking-site. I trimmed the extractor's snippet to only the sentence I could confirm word for word. The extractor's trailing…
4 sources checked for this venue.