Tao Poon MRT Station

This is a station you pass through rather than visit. It's an interchange on the MRT Blue Line up in Bang Sue, northern Bangkok, and its main job is moving people between lines and out to the rest of the city. If you're staying nearby, it's your way in and out. If you're not, you'll probably only see it as a name on the platform map.

Above ground you get a working residential and commercial patch of Bangkok along Thanon Pracha Rat Sai 2, with local markets, small eateries, the everyday stuff of a neighborhood that isn't putting on a show for anyone. That's not a criticism. It just means don't plan a day around it. The station itself has the usual setup, ticket machines, a customer service counter and step-free access.

If you're using the MRT more than twice, get a stored-value card instead of buying single-journey tokens each time. It's cheaper and it saves you waiting in line at the machine every trip. You can pick one up at any MRT station.