Asok Road

Siam Society Library

Founded in 1904, the Siam Society constructed its first permanent library and office buildings in 1937. It was not until sixty years later that the library moved into the newly built Chalerm Phra Kiat Building, housing the modern library, exhibition space, meeting rooms and office for Society staff.

Siam Society central courtyard

Japan Foundation Library, Bangkok

The Japan Foundation features a modern library and resource center for students and teachers of Japanese. The library has books and magazines on Japan and Japanese language teaching in Japanese, Thai and English. It also has audio visual resources for teaching Japanese, and feature films and culture films with original sound tracks and Thai subtitles.

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Benjakiti Park, near Asok

Benjakiti Park (Thai: สวนเบญจกิติ) is a public park in Bangkok, Thailand. A former factory site of the Thailand Tobacco Monopoly, the park first opened in 2004. It has an area of approximately 130 Rai (1 Rai = 1,600 sq. m.) or 20.8 hectares and is dominated by a central lake around which a footpath and separate cycle path follow. Surrounding gardens are landscaped and maintained to a high standard, and this could rightly be described as a very attractive park.

Well maintained flower beds and wide footpath or running track

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