Temple, active, riverside

Wat Phanan Choeng

South bank of the Chao Phraya, off the main Ayutthaya island, near the confluence with the Pa Sak River, Ayutthaya, Ayutthaya, Thailand

People go for the towering 19 meter seated Luang Pho Tho Buddha housed in the main viharn, a major pilgrimage draw for Thai and Chinese visitors given the temple's legend tied to a Chinese princess.

Wat Phanan Choeng

Wat Phanan Choeng Photo by The original uploader was Toutou at Thai Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Hours

Official source, current

Daily 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

“08:00〜17:00”

thailandtravel.or.jp · Checked 7 Aug 2026

Price

Single report

20 THB entrance fee

“The entrance fee is 20 baht, paid at a small booth at the entrance.”

en.wikipedia.org · Checked 25 Jul 2026

Age suitability

Not verified

Not verified. No source we checked states this, so it stays blank instead of guessed.

No check date recorded

Caveats

Re-fetched https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Phanan_Choeng fresh on 2026-07-25: it confirms both the price snippet ("The entrance fee is 20 baht, paid at a small booth at the entrance.") and the hours snippet ("It is open daily from 8 am to 5 pm.") verbatim as claimed, and states no age suitability info. Both fields…

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