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Neighborhood of the City of Yangon in Yangon Region, Myanmar

Downtown Yangon

Downtown Yangon is the central business district of Yangon, Myanmar, located close to the geographic centre of the metropolitan area.

Downtown Yangon
Downtown Yangon · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Downtown Yangon is the central business district of Yangon, Myanmar, located close to the geographic centre of the metropolitan area. The area features many of the city's major arts institutions and sports facilities.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Downtown Yangon

Airports
Yangon (RGN), 15 km
  • Naypyitaw → Downtown Yangon
    333 km · quickest by road, 6h 18m · $32–44
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  • Mandalay → Downtown Yangon
    578 km · quickest by air, 5h 38m · $220–320
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  • Chiang Mai → Downtown Yangon
    375 km · quickest by air, 5h 9m · ฿2,530–3,910
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Downtown Yangon

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Downtown Yangon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAncient buses ferry passengers to their aircraft.
  • Get in150 years ago, boats were the way to get to places from Yangon and IWT (Inland Water Transport) passenger ferries still ply the major rivers.
  • Get inThe ferry leaves Pyay every Friday at 06:30 and arrives in Yangon on Sunday at 21:40.
  • Get inA luxury ferry (the Delta Queen) recalls the colonial era on the Yangon-Pathein route (about 20 hr, US$170/person).
  • Get inThe IWT ferry to Pathein takes 15 hr for the overnight trip (US$35/10).

From Wikivoyage: Yangon, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    BagoMM

    11 ways of moving, 25 sources

    71 km
  2. 02
    Chiang MaiTH

    12 ways of moving, 37 sources

    373 km
  3. 03
    PaiTH

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    375 km
  4. 04
    BaganMM

    12 ways of moving, 50 sources

    507 km
  5. 05
    AyutthayaTH

    9 ways of moving, 9 sources

    544 km

If you know how people move in Downtown Yangon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Downtown Yangon

Downtown Yangon is 3 km from Yangon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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