Trains from Nakhon Sawan to Lampang

By train the journey from Nakhon Sawan to Lampang (also known as Nakhon Lampang) is scheduled to take from 6 to 8 hours depending upon which train you take.

Train Times from Nakhon Sawan to Lampang

There are currently 5 long distance train services a day from Nakhon Sawan to Lampang.

• Fastest Train: The fastest service from Nakhon Sawan to Lampang is Train #7, departing at 10:19, which is scheduled to complete the journey from Nakhon Sawan to Lampang in 5 hours 37 minutes.
• Slowest Train: The slowest service from Nakhon Sawan to Lampang is Train #109, departing at 18:22 and scheduled to arrive in Lampang 7 hours 32 minutes later.

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About Travel to Lampang

Lampang City has around 250,000 permanent residents making it the third largest city in the Northern Region of Thailand.

Tourism in Lampang

Lampang is nowhere near as popular a tourist destination as Chiang Rai or Chiang Mai, which are also located in the Northern Region of Thailand. The city does, however, receive a steady stream of visitors most of whom are Thai tourists as few foreign visitors have heard of the city or understand why it’s somewhere worth visiting.

Lampang is known for a number of things, such as pottery and a type of rice cake made traditional to the area. It’s also known as being somewhere very old fashioned where you can see how Thailand looked 100 years ago. Horse and carriage taxis still operate in Lampang, although now only for tourists. The city also has lots of old buildings and temples, many constructed from wood.

Accommodation in Lampang

Major hotel booking websites list around 50 tourist hotels, guesthouses, and resorts in Lampang. Overall accommodation in Lampang is relatively cheap. There are plenty of small hotels and guesthouses, such as the very pleasant Puangpech Place, which charge around 500 THB a night. At the other end of the scale the Fong Lee CC, which is a hotel in a heritage building, charges from around 2,000 THB a night.

Lampang also has several larger modern hotels charging around 1,000 THB per night, such as the Wienglakor Hotel Lampang and Baan Kieng Guest House Lampang. These mid-range hotels tend to offer the best value for money in Lampang. The room standards are very good in relation to the price. Although these hotels tend not to have gyms or swimming pools some, such as the Wienglakor Hotel Lampang, have gardens and beautifully decorated dining areas.

Food in Lampang

Lampang has a fairly good selection of restaurants. Most of the restaurants in the city centre specialise in Northern Thai dishes including khao soi (curry noodles). There are also a smaller number of restaurants serving foreign cuisine. The city doesn’t receive that many foreign visitors and the range of what’s on offer in terms of ‘international cuisine’ is limited as a consequence:

• Pizza/Italian: Try Mr Lasagna, The Pappa Restaurant, or Long Jim New York Pizza.
• Japanese: Try Fukujin Izakaya.
• International cuisine: Try Black Cowboy.

Wat Phra That Lampang Luang

Located 15 km by road to the south west of Lampang City, Wat Phra That Lampang Luang is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the area.

Wat Phra That Lampang Luang is a Buddhist temple established in the 13th Century. What makes this temple unusual is that it’s contained within a fortified compound built on a man-made hill. The buildings within the temple grounds, many of which are wooden, have been well maintained and are among the best surviving examples of Lanna era architecture in Thailand.

Baan Sao Nak

Baan Sao Nak is a largely wooden building constructed in 1895 in the centre of Lampang City which is privately owned but open to the public as a museum. The name ‘Baan Sao Nak’ means the House of Many Pillars in reference to the 116 thick teak wood pillars which form the foundation of the main house.

Baan Sao Nak is one of Thailand’s better known historical buildings. It has featured in a number of Thai TV programmes and books. The site has also been visited by members of Thailand’s royal family.

Wat Phra Kaew Don Tao

Wat Phra Kaew Don Tao is the largest and most important temple in Lampang City. The exact age of the temple, and its origins, are not fully known. The recorded history of the temple begins in 1434 when, according to local legend, an elephant carrying the famous Emerald Buddha statue from Chiang Rai to Chiang Mai refused to go to Chiang Mai and decided to walk to Lampang instead. The Emerald Buddha stayed at Wat Phra Kaew Don Tao until 1468 before finally completing its journey to Chiang Mai.

As well as its association with this important legend, Wat Phra Kaew Don Tao also has some interesting architectural features most notably a very large white stupa and a small but very beautiful Burmese style mondop with a 7-tier roof.

Lampang Old Quarter

Another of Lampang’s main tourist attractions is a small area just to the south of the Wang River on and around the Talad Gao Road with clusters of buildings constructed in the 19th Century and early 20th Century. This part of the city is one of the best surviving examples of early Thai urban architecture. Many of the buildings are wooden, and the fact that they survived when many other similar buildings in other cities were destroyed by accidental fires in the 1950s makes them very special.

At the weekends a popular vintage night market is set up along the Talad Gao Road selling old fashioned Thai dishes and local craft goods.