How walkable is Yangon Chinatown?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Yangon Chinatown has a walkability score of 90 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the most walkable of 1 neighbourhoods ranked in Yangon, which scores 59 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
769 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Yangon Chinatown. The nearest grocery is Than Zay Market, about 3 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, schools and books & libraries. It is weakest for parks.
- City Mart (Chinatown Point Branch)6 min
- Kabarkyaw Foodstuffs8 min
- Kyay Oh Bayin (Sint Oh Dan Street)1 min
- 18th Street1 min
- Wah Wah Win Gold and Jewelry Center2 min
- Lucky Yadanar Gold & Jewellery2 min
- Chinatown 125 Café 唐人街125咖啡2 min
- Cha-Ya4 min
- C B Bank3 min
- Yoma Bank3 min
- မဟာဗန္ဓုလ ပန်းခြံ17 min
- School Garden22 min
- Lanmadaw Montessori Center4 min
- Tip Top International Preschool & Learning Centre4 min
- Apex သင်ကြားရေးအထောက်အကူပြုစာစဉ်14 min
- Ko Latt Book Shop 09502006816 min
- Jcv Cinema11 min
- Junction City , Burma11 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Yangon Chinatown at 16.7750, 96.1488. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 117 street intersections per km², and blocks average 87 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Yangon Chinatown
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of Yangon Chinatown. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Questions about walking in Yangon Chinatown
Is Yangon Chinatown walkable?
Yes. Yangon Chinatown in Yangon has a walkability score of 90 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Yangon Chinatown more walkable than the rest of Yangon?
Yangon Chinatown is more walkable than Yangon as a whole: it scores 90, against 59 for the 5 km around Yangon's centre. It ranks 1st of the 1 Yangon neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
How is the walkability score of Yangon Chinatown calculated?
The score counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and deducts up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long. For Yangon Chinatown it is the average of 51 points spread evenly across the 1 km around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap.
Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.