Sukhothai to Ayutthaya

By bus the journey from Sukhothai to Ayutthaya is scheduled to take 6 hours.

Bus Times from Sukhothai to Ayutthaya

There are currently 9 bus services a day with Tour with Thai from Sukhothai to Ayutthaya available to book online.

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The alternative to travelling all the way by bus is to travel by road to Phitsanulok to board a southbound train to Ayutthaya.

Sukhothai Bus Stop

Tour with Thai bus services from Sukhothai to Ayutthaya depart from Sukhothai Bus Terminal.

Chiang Mai Bus Stop

Tour with Thai bus services from Sukhothai to Ayutthaya terminate at the Tour with Thai Office in Ayutthaya.

About Travel to Ayutthaya

Ayutthaya, located only 80 km by road to the north of Central Bangkok, is one of Thailand’s top tourist destinations attracting over 2 million visitors a year. Most of these visitors, however, only come to Ayutthaya on day trips to see the historical sites. By early evening time the number of holiday makers in the city reduces considerably.

Staying in Ayutthaya

Ayutthaya city centre is an area geographically defined by the three rivers, and one canal, which form a natural border to a 4.3 km long and 2 km wide area referred to as ‘Ayutthaya Island’. The Island contains Ayutthaya Historical Park and the highest concentration of shops, hotels, restaurants and markets.

There are lots of places to stay in Ayutthaya outside of the Island, particularly on the river and canal banks. For example, a popular budget option is the Baan Are Gong Riverside Homestay which is very close to Ayutthaya Railway Station. However, in terms of places to eat out in the evening and for nightlife the Island is the place to go.

Like many provincial cities and towns in Thailand, much of Ayutthaya shuts down after 18:00. There are, however, a few exceptions. One of those is the Bang Lan Road night market, also sometimes referred to as the Ong Gaan Tolasap Night Market. This lively night market sells mostly food every night of the week from 16:00 to 21:00. The other exception is Naresuan Soi 1 in the east of the Island. Naresuan Soi 1 has a series of bars and restaurants such as the Moon Bar and the Khaosan Bar Ayutthaya, which are popular with both foreign and Thai leisure travellers.

Ayutthaya Historical Park

Most of the tourists who come to Ayutthaya do so primarily to visit the historical park located in the west of Ayutthaya Island. The park features 13 ruined temples built during the period when Ayutthaya was the capital city of Thailand (1350 to 1767).

It’s free to enter the park and walk around. To gain access to the temples themselves non-Thai visitors need to pay 50 THB per temple. The temples were extensively damaged by an invading army from Burma in 1767 and since then only critical repairs to stop structures falling down have been undertaken.

The temples are, nonetheless, very impressive and well worth visiting. Three temples in the park in particular are very popular with visitors:

• Wat Phra Si Samphet: The most spectacular of the temples in the historical park, Wat Phra Si Samphet features very large chedi towers in a row.
• Wat Phra Ram: This temple features a very tall Khmer style prang tower of a kind which was once common in Thailand and this is the only surviving example.
• Wat Maha Tat: This is probably the most photographed temple in the historical park. When the Burmese invaded the city in 1767 they cut the heads of many of the statues of the Lord Buddha. There are lots of these statues and their disembodied heads lying close by, including one head which has been enveloped by the roots of a Bodhi tree.