Jingjok
Skytrain manners
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Bangkok's skytrain (BTS) and underground (MRT) are clean, cool and fairly quiet, and a few rules keep them that way. Eating and drinking are not allowed on trains or inside the paid area, so finish your iced coffee before the gates. On the platform, wait beside the doors, not in front of them, and let people off before you get on. Each car has priority seats for monks, older people, pregnant women, small children and people with disabilities; offer yours without being asked. Women make sure not to sit or stand pressed against a monk. Keep phone calls short and quiet. The BTS and MRT are separate systems, so at an interchange you leave one and pay again for the other.
Try this today
On your next skytrain ride, spot the priority seats and the monks sign above them.
The words that carry it
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Your first 90 days of Thai
Culture cards in Jingjok are tied to the words that carry them, each ending in one thing to try today.
- WEEKS 1–2 · SURVIVEGreet anyone, pay, and order food and 7-Eleven exactly how you like it.
- WEEKS 3–6 · SETTLE INGet around by taxi, Grab and skytrain, find anything, and handle your landlord.
- WEEKS 7–12 · RUN YOUR LIFEPharmacy, bank, SIM and apps, how you feel, and a weekend away, all in Thai.
The first week is free.