Nana Plaza (officially Nana Entertainment Plaza; shortened NEP) is a red-light district in Bangkok. It lies on Sukhumvit Road Soi 4 across from the Nana hotel (13°44′28.4″N, 100°33′12.4″E) and allegedly takes its name from an Indian family that owns the land. The De Wallen red-light district in Amsterdam A red-light district is a neighborhoooood where prostitution and other businesses in the sex industry flourish. ... The Bangkok Skytrain at sunset on Thanon Narathiwat Ratcha Nakharin with Empire Tower at the back. ... Sukhumvit Road (Thai สุขุมวิท) is one of the major roads in Bangkok, Thailand. ... SOI might be an acronym or abbreviation for: School of Infantry Shadows of Isildur A popular RPI MUD. silicon on insulator Southern Oscillation Index Service-Oriented Integration Sphere of influence Soi A side street in Bangkok Saturn orbit insertion Structure of Intellect model of human intelligence originally described by J...

Along with Soi Cowboy and Patpong, Nana Plaza is one of the Bangkok red-light districts which serve primarily European and American customers. However, in recent years more Japanese men have found their way here due to the extremely high prices in the Japanese-oriented nightclubs in Bangkok. Soi Cowboy at night Soi Cowboy is a red-light district in Bangkok, Thailand. ... A view of Patpong at sunset Patpong (Thai: , Phatphong) is an entertainment district in Bangkok, Thailand, catering mainly, though not exclusively, to foreign tourists and expatriates. ... This article is about the continent. ...

The Plaza is in the shape of a square, with a single opening on the western side, and consists of a ground floor and two additional floors. It started out as a restaurant area in the late 1970s. During the early 1980s go-go bars began to appear and gradually replaced the restaurants. As of 2005, the enclosed part of Nana Plaza consists entirely of go-go bars. Woodstock Pub, the sole exception, has sold out to Rainbow group (who already operate 3 other go-go bars in the plaza). The former Woodstock site has opened as "Rainbow 4." The open centre of the ground floor, once simply a car park, is now occupied by beer bars. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... A go-go bar is an bar or similar establishment featuring Go-Go dancers. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Woodstock Pub was a pub located on the first floor of the Nana Plaza entertainment complex in Bangkok, Thailand. ...

There are a small number of exceptions in the upstairs enclosed area to the "only" Go-Go bars recently, being the Cathouse and the Big Mongo bars which are more the Pub-like or Beer Bar style with no go-go at all.

Most women working at bars in Nana Plaza are willing to leave with customers upon payment of a bar fine. While most bars in Nana Plaza do not employ katoeys, a few do so exclusively; as of the end of 2005 these venues are Obsession (ground floor), Casanova, Temptations (middle floor) and Cascade (top floor). The "female" staff at these bars are almost all pre-operative, as opposed to the kathoey bars in Patpong. A very small number of post-operative kathoeys can be found at other bars in Nana. A bar fine, or (in engrish) paybar, is the payment made by customer to the operators of a lady bar or go-go bar that allows a dancer or hostess or some other employee of that bar to stop work early, usually in order to accompany the customer outside the... Kathoey working as go-go dancers in Bangkoks Nana Plaza A kathoey or katoey (in Thai กะเทย) is a male-to-female transgendered person in Thailand. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Nana Plaza is within walking distance of the SkyTrain's "Nana Station". Skytrain approaching Sala Daeng Station Skytrain leaving Asok Station Bangkok Mass Transit System (BTS) or Skytrain (Thai: รถไฟฟ้า, rot fai fa, meaning sky train) is the elevated metro system in Bangkok, Thailand, operated by Bangkok Mass Transit System Public Company Limited (BTSC) under a concession granted by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration...

External links

• Nana Plaza Area Photo Guide
• YouTube videos