Thanlyin
Worth seeing in and around Thanlyin
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Thanlyin
- Airports
- Yangon (RGN), 19 km
- Stations
- Okhposu Railway Station, 1.5 km
- Naypyitaw → Thanlyin391 km · quickest by road, 7h 29m · $36–49
- Mandalay → Thanlyin579 km · quickest by air, 5h 51m · $230–340
- Chiang Mai → Thanlyin367 km · quickest by air, 5h 22m · ฿2,540–3,930
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Thanlyin
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 Thanlyin. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Thanlyin – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Thanlyin
Thanlyin is 10 km from Yangon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Thaketa Townshiptownship of Yangon in Yangon Region, Myanmar5.4 km
- Thanlyin Districtdistrict in Yangon Region, Myanmar700 m
- Kyaikkhauk PagodaBuddhist pilgrims and missionaries in Thanlyin Township, Myanmar5.1 km