Jatujak weekend market. The worlds biggest weekend market. A shopping heaven for at least 500,000 shoppers from around the world A WEEK!. Here you find anything you are looking for. Unfortunately until recently this market was only accessible for shoppers that actually visited Thailand during their Holidays.

Now Jatujak is available online. For anybody, everybody, anywhere! You can now shop for products from Jatujak from the comfort of your home, office or anywhere you are in the world.

          Are you a first time visitor for this website? Have you been in Thailand before and visited the market? Well for either, we have created a website that guides you right through this market with all sections categorized and sub categorized. You can either shop online by item search, shop search, product search or category. Have a look and enjoy surfing around the Jatujak online shopping mall.

          Before the existents of www.jj247.com people had to find these products elsewhere online for very high prices due to the import duty and shipping fees to reach the retailers around the world. Not the mention the HUGE PROFIT MARGINS retailers calculate!
          Here you can shop until you drop from the convenience of your computer All products offered are priced as if you where at the market. Meaning, we did not add any extra charge to make a profit.
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FROM SANAM LUANG............TO JATUJAK

Jatujak Market, or former Sanam Luang market, was established in 1948. Then, the government had decided to move the market in order to use the Sanam Luang area for recreation and royal ceremonies, as well as major festivals of the country. Until the 200th Anniversary Ratanakosin Celebration Ceremony in 1982, the Sanam Luang market was moved to a new place in the area of Pahonyothin under the name of Pahonyotin Area Market and was renamed to Jatujak Market after the name of Jatujak Park located nearby.

WELL KNOWN JJ MARKET

Jatujak market is well know worldwide and called by foreigners as "JJ market". It is located in an area of over 70 rai, with more than 15,000 stalls of products from everywhere in Thailand. There are convenient parking spaces. A hundred of security units, municipal police and crime suppression police (in uniform and plainclothes) are in charge at the market everyday. The market provides services to more than 200,000 people (including Thai people and foreigners). And money circulating in the market is approximately 30 million Baht/day (U$790,000.-)

SOME OF THE PRODUCTS SOLD AND DESCRIPTION

Plants:
The market entrance on the side of Pahonyotin Road is the place where different kinds of plant, including flowering plants, decorative plants, perennial, fruit trees, kitchen garden plants, as well as planting equipment, fertilizers, insecticides, and flower pots are available. (project 1-3). Along both sides of the passageways, you will experience a shady and cool atmosphere, filled with a variety of plants, including colorful flowing plants such as Orchids, roses, jasmines, jankrajangfa, Khunnai Tuensai, Crown of Thorn, or branch roots of fruit trees sold at cheap prices such as mangoes, jackfruits, guavas, and scare plants such as sandal trees, Rang Jued, etc. For cactus lovers, different kinds, sizes, and colors of cactuses are available.
Plants are sold at cheap prices on Wednesdays and Thursdays in front of the Administrative Division and at the roadside around the market. And of course on JJ247.com (domestic delivery only)

Antiques:
Most antiques are available at Project 26 and some of the are also available in various projects, including ancient Buddha images, decoration, large-sized household utensils such as ancient woodwork, cabinets, beds, tables, chairs, furniture, or small piece ornaments such as silverware, necklaces, rings bracelets, brassware, dishes, bowls, spoons, household decoration, lamps, telephones, clocks, and classical-shape antiques.

Pets:
Pet lovers can buy their favorite pets such as Thai dogs, Chizu, poodle, boxer, Saint Bernard, or cats such as genuine Siamese cats, bluish gray Siamese cats, Persian cats, from different shops. Beautiful pets that give you a pleasure such as parrots or hybrid parrots of different colors, or fancy carps, aquarium fish, gold fish and different kinds of sea fish. And equipment for pet raising such as chains, collars, cages, bathing soap, vitamins, and pet foods, beautiful fish aquariums as well as pet clinics, are also available

Food and Restaurants:
There are over 400 restaurants and food stalls in Jatujak Market, each of them is decorated to attract the customers. Particularly in the ideal Project, there where all well-known and old restaurants selling a variety of goods. You can choose them from the menus or upon your order. If you like local foods, you can taste them from different restaurants in different projects such as in northern food restaurants, northern sausages, boyish chili sauce and northern-style Chinese vermicelli are sold.

In Project 19, Soi 10, genuine southern foods are well-known such as yellow curry, fish viscera curry, kao yam nam budo, southern-style Chinese vermicelli. Noth-Eastern foods are also available such as a variety of papaya salads, including Thai papaya salad, crab papaya salad, seafood papaya salad. International foods are available in Project 3 Soi2 such as Japaneese foods, including grilled Saba fish with sauce and hot cooked rice, or Vietnamese foods sucg as nam nuang, pork sausage, grilled pig's ribs, or if you like Islamic foods, chicken-cooked rice here is very tasty and second-to-none.

After you have enjoyed the foods, if you would like to finish your meals with desserts, there are a variety of desserts, such as rice noodles with sweet coconut cream, drink with shaved ice, bean junket, original vegetable jelly. If it is not convenient for you to sit and eat here, you can buy the original Thai desserts such as thongyip, thongyod, kanomchan, etc..., at the ideal project.

Fresh foods and dried foods:
Fresh foods and dried foods, chili paste , spices and condiments of all region in Thailand are available at Project 17 and Project 19, including pork, meat, chicken, fresh seafood, and wild animals such as wild pigs, deer, birds, frogs, soft-shelled turtles.
Selected fresh fruits and vegetables, dried foods such as dried squids, dried schrimps, basked fish, basked meat, or shrimp paste that was well known at Sanam Luang market, are available at project 22 Soi 4.

Ceramic, Collections, and Household Utensil:
Ceramic is an interesting product for decoration available in various ceramic stalls 17 and Project 19, including ceramic toys, mobiles, or household utensil such as dishes, bowls glasses of different colors and patterns. In particular, various kinds of quality wholesale products are sold at cheap prices at the market on Fridays. And of course on JJ247.com 24/7

In project 2-4, there are interesting collections such as colorful galvanized utensil. Souvenirs made from products of Pepsi or coke such as glasses, cans, bottle-openers, bottle caps, etc., even Mc Donald’s premiums, are available for collectors at the ideal Market Project.

Miscellaneous household utensil such as mosquito nets, pillows, blanket, towels, ceramic, aluminim or plastic kitchenware are available for your satisfactory selection.
For classical Thai music lovers, or amateur and professional musicians, Jatujak market is also the center of classical Thai or local musical instruments.

Clothes:
Hundreds of clothes are available at Jatujak Market. Shoppers can buy fashion clothes and old-fashioned clothes, used clothes or old (particularly the popular Levi's jeans), shoes, handbags, and ornaments at this market.

Books:
The Jatujak Market is one of the largest places in Bangkok where all kinds of books are available at cheap prices, including textbooks, art & cultural books, history books, philosophy books, artistic books, translated books, Thai, Chinese, or western novels, decoration books, magazines, journals, etc. At the Jatujak Market's bookstalls, you can find your favorite books, latest books, hundred-year-old books or books that you have been searching for a long time available at very cheap prices. In particular, at the corner of Ideal Market Project, seats are provided for all readers.

Presents and souvenirs:
Presents or tiny decorations are suitable for any season and for the yearly upcoming New Year Festival. At Jatujak Market, you can select a variety of decorations, painting, picture frames, handicraft products, including ceramic articles and toys.
Plants are regarded as interesting presents. Various kinds of plants have auspicious names and being appropriate to be the present such as millionaire trees, fortune trees, money-flowing trees, sedges, etc. These plants are regarded as auspicious plants and being decorated for good luck.

Thai Handicrafts that impress foreigners:
Most Bangkokians are familiar with the Jatujak Market because all kinds of products are available here, as from fashion clothes off different styles, essential utensil, fresh fruit and vegetables, fresh foods, dried foods, plants, books, or pets for pleasure. Moreover, the market has another kind of products that are very popular among foreigners,ie., handicraft products are elegant and maintaining Thai identity.
Thai handicraft products at the Jatujak Market are excellent handicraft from all regions of Thailand. When you come here, you will find a variety of Thai handicrafts according to local conditions.

Pottery:
Pottery has been regarded as means of subsistence of Thai people since the ancient time, including pots, earthen crocks, dishes, bowls, cups, water jars, flowerpots, flower vases, glasses, etc. Pottery has thus been produced in almost al regions and communities.
Pottery at the Jatujak Market has different sizes as from Large water jars, flower pots for lotus planting/fish raising, animal sculptures, flower pots, to small-sized utensils such as toothpick containers, paperweights. These products are contemporary and in harmony with everyday use.
For people who are interested in pottery from Baan Dan Kwian of Nakhon Ratchasima, which has new elegant look and being different from other styles of pottery, are able to see them at pottery shops that sell local products directly at fair prices. This saves a lot of your traveling time. Samples of Daan Kwian Pottery include hanging flowerpots in the shapes of owls, fish, or scrollwork, and pottery used in the shape of wols, fish, or scrollworl, and pottery used as decorations such as earrings, belys, necklaces, etc.

Weaving:
The Jatujak Market is not the only center for fashion clothes but also the center for skilled local weavers from the regions. A variety of woven cloths are available for you at different prices, according to its delicate workmanship
Starting from normal cotton cloths with close or loose texture, bleached, dyed, and non-bleached, including "PA KHID", which is specially and neatly-woven for a long time, and regarded as sacred thing for the northeasterners; or skills, which are the production from silkworms and white mulberry, including mud mee silks, irdescent-silk cloths, and rayon.
Woven cloths being sold in this market are mostly produced by local ,master craftsmen in all regions of Thailand. they are produces in pieces of cloth for sewing and ready-made dresses, shirts, pants, hats, scarves, neckties, etc. Moreover, there are products made from other kinds of woven cloths, which are as interesting as the group of cloths, which are as interesting as the group of clothing, such as curtains, back-resting pillow, bolsters, table-cloth, bed spreads, and other kinds of cloths such as batik, sarong, sarong-like skirts, bathing cloth produced by villagers in the regions, waiting for your shopping here

Carving:
Handicraft products in the category of carving are available at the Jatujak Market, including wood carving for making furniture and decorations such as wood animal toys, food containers, chairs, tables, beds, and components of classical Thai house in the North such as Kalae, which is an art of carving with endeavors of artisans or local craftsmen.

Basketwork:
Basketwork is the work of weaving and knitting of containers and utensil with local materials such as bamboo, wicker, reed, ramie, fiber crops, palm leaves, java weed, bulrush, and Lygodium flexuosum. It is the only kind of handicraft being practiced widely and you can buy it at Jatujak Market.
There are different kinds of basketwork in terms of shapes and method of doing. You can see neat and elegant kitchenware such as large-sized and small-sized food covers, fruit trays, baskets, wide-mouthed, square based baskets, and flat baskets (normal sizes and small sizes), that are used as souvenirs in special occasions.
In addition to kitchenware, there are various kinds of household utensil such as flower baskets, fruit baskets, farmer's hats (ngaub), hats, lanterns, mats, fans, handbags, etc. The charm of basketwork is colorful weaving patterns including the originals and new ones applied by the craftsmen themselves. Basketwork is named according the types of patterns such as sieve pattern (basic pattern), triangle pattern, spider's web pattern, moon pattern, pine's leaf pattern, etc. Major raw materials used in the basketwork are bamboo and wicker due to their availability.

Metal Handicraft:
This kind of handicraft applies natural are for everyday utilization. Metals that are popular among Thai people include gold, silver, tin and lead.
There are different kinds of metal handicrafts being sold at the Jatujak Market, including household utensil cast from copper, brass, or alloy. Metal handcrafts are shown by hanging on the walls, or standing on the floor. In particular, pocket knives and swords beautifully carved, and ornaments made of silver, such as bracelets, necklace, rings, earrings, belts, and handbags are available at cheap prices.

Paintings:
Though the Jatujak Market is a scene of hustle and bustle and a variety of products, beautiful artwork and handicrafts such as artistic work or Thai-style paintings are also available at the market.
Paintings are drawn on cloth, paper, mirror, or wood. Most paintings present Buddha's history or Buddha images relating to legendary history or literary stories, including Buddhist doctrines, as well as pictures with Thai identification stories.

Paper Arts:
Paper arts are local paper handicrafts using Thai-style paper made from paper mulberry (cultivated in the North) boiled in sodium hydroxide until its fibers are disintegrated. then, rinse them with water and produce thin film by means of smashing, crushing, pounding, or paper tissues by simple method (using sieve to skim the paper sheets off and dry in the sun, then slowly take off the paper sheets from the sieve and finally we will have beautiful Thai-style paper for various kinds of work).
At the Jatujak Market, in addition to colorful paper kites made from Thai-style paper, you may find the Thai-style paper being used as present-packing paper, greeting card paper, wallpaper, notebook cover, and decoration such as bows, ribbons, or picture frames. this kind of paper arts is very popular, particularly among teenagers in Thailand.

Miscellaneous:
Handicraft products not being classified in the above-said categories become unpopular or unknown handicraft work because they where not inherited in the ancient time. Miscellaneous products are made by non-local people only. And then, such activities are extended from one family to several families. Samples of this kind of work include the production of certain classical Thai musical instruments or ornaments such as beads.
You can buy different kinds of classical Thai instruments at the Jatujak Market, including beating musical instruments such as small cy tom-tom, two faced drum; blowing musical instruments such as flute, oboe, and lao reed mouth-organ; string musical instruments such as lute, Seung ( a kind of northern Thai musical instrument); and playing musical instruments such as three-stringed fiddle, alto-stringed fiddle, and treble-stringed fiddle.
Whereas, new and used musical instruments that are in good condition are available at cheap prices.
For the production of beads as ornaments, various bead and ornament shops will provide you an opportunity to create the beads by yourself at home, or they may create the beads as ready-made ornaments, Teenagers, who know how to choose or design the ornaments for their own use, will buy materials at the Jatujak Market regularly.

Different thought, different elegance:
As the primitive Thai society was a rural or an agricultural society. And Thai people had to rely mainly on themselves. As a result, it was necessary to create tools and apparatuses, and improvements until the handicraft was developed.
Therefore, "Thai Handicraft" or "local Handy craft" means craftsmanship created by local craftsmen in a particular locality. The invention is in accordance with the patterns inherited within the family or inherited from ancestors directly, thus, for the purpose of everyday use. Each peace of work may be inherited to different areas but it will be adjusted to be in accordance with local condition until local identity is developed.
When the handicrafts being created for utilization according to local condition of each locality, are adjusted for elegance in terms of craftsmanship by the creator of work, who can realize the differences in each period of time, as well as the creative ideas of arts, the outstanding and unique Thai handicrafts are considered to be elegant in a different way.

Central region:
The abundance of Central Region resulting from its having low-lying land and having many rivers passing enables the Central Region to produce the means of subsistence by itself almost perfectly. This brings about a variety of handicrafts, particularly the basketwork handicraft.

Southern Region:
The Southern region is full of forest and water resources. Therefore there are a lot of raw materials available for local handicraft, particularly a plant called "Lygodium flexuosum", which is firm and durable, is used to produce the beautifull "Lipao" bags.
Moreover, nielloware, a superb metal of Nakhon Su Thammarat, leather-carving in the shodow play and woven :Phum Riang Cloth" are legend and second-to-none!

Northern Region:
The abundance of forest resources enables the Northern Region to produce a variety of local works. Handicrafts that are recognized and praised by Thai people and foreigners include wood carving, silk weaving and nielloware, which has delicate and complicate methods and using special expertise.

Northeastern Region:
Outstanding handicrafts of the Northeastern Region appear in terms of beautiful patterns on different kinds of woven cloths. In particular, mud mee Silk and pa khid are outstanding and unique.