Itsaraphap MRT Station

If you're heading to Wat Arun and don't fancy waiting in line for the cross-river ferry, this is your way in. The temple is roughly 800 meters from the station on foot, which is a short walk in the cool of the morning and a sweaty one by mid-afternoon. Taxis wait outside too, and reviewers put the short hop to Wat Arun at around 37 baht, so it's hardly worth haggling over.

The station itself is a Blue Line stop on Thanon Itsaraphap in Bangkok Yai, clean and modern in the way the whole MRT network is. Don't expect the artwork some other stations have. It's a functional box that gets you under the river and out the other side, which is the entire point.

The one thing that catches people out is the signage. More than one traveler has mentioned getting turned around down there, so fix this in your head before you arrive. Take Exit 1 for Wat Arun. Everything else adds ten minutes and a lap of the concourse.