Thonglor or Sukhumvit Soi 55 (CBD) is a prime business location for celebrities and famous people. It is a lifestyle area of high-income persons and millionaires in Thailand. This high-class meeting point has a unique charm and is the hub of luxury and hip culture. Interestingly, it is the potential location on Sukhumvit Road with high purchasing power.
This neighborhood is a community of old-fashioned millionaires blending with the modern business district. It is also a source of leading design businesses; and artist creative business workplaces, including designers, architects, photographers, hairdressers, make-up artists.
The Hi Society town offers excellent restaurants from various nationalities — especially Japanese and Korean restaurants along both sides of the road — at the beginning of Soi Thonglor on the Sukhumvit side.
The Thonglor Road is about 2 kilometers long. Along the alleys, it is full of many convenient facilities, whether it is a variety of office buildings, Grade-A offices for rent, co-working spaces, and luxury condominium projects from leading developers in Thailand. High-end service apartments, wedding studios, design and creative businesses, galleries, showrooms, famous beauty clinics, famous hospitals.
There are also leading shopping centers, department stores, community malls, supermarkets, fashion stores, old-school restaurants, uniquely decorated international restaurants, dessert and bakery shops, wineries, health spas, yoga institutes, international schools, language schools, performing arts and music studios, common areas for creative activities.
Moreover, you can find chic cafés, hip pubs and bars with all kinds of music, and high-end entertainment businesses — finally, a restaurant to chill in a high-class atmosphere during the night.
The word “Thonglor” comes from an essential member of the People’s Party Naval Line after World War II, who owned the land at that time. It used to be home to the Japanese people before 1932. It is constantly evolving and still a zone of wealthy Japanese residents, business people and tourists. There are also foreigners from other nations, including Thais, who are a group of city-living lifestyle.
Soi Thonglor is the shortcut from Sukhumvit to Petchburi Road, where one can travel in and out on many routes. It is very convenient for transportation even on weekend nights where massive cars are on the road. There is a BTS station close to the alley. You can also travel by Khlong Saen Saep’s passenger boat at Bandon Pier.
