Travel Tips about Nan Bus Station in Nan town

Nan Bus Station station is about 500m south of town, about 200m from route 101 just before Nan town on your left hand side. The bus station is served by government busses and by private bus companies like Nakhon Chai Air and Green Bus. And there is an information counter but all staff of course speaks only Thai. In front of the building are ATM's and nearby are small restaurants and scooter rental. This bus station is used for local transport in Nan province and for inter-regional transport. For more information about Nan province see Destination Travel Guide Nan.

How to get to Nan Bus Station?

By public transport you can get to Nan Bus Station with taxi, songtheauw or even samlor. By private car or motorbike, just follow the signs along route 101. There is free parking.

Transport within Nan province

Next to the building are Red Songtheaws for transport in Nan town
Platform 7 - 8 are for Blue Songtheauws for transport to places like Tha Wang Pha, Santisuk or Mae Charim.
Since July 2020 it seems that the Orange Bus has been put out of its misery and replaced my mini-van's. Doing the same route Nan to Thung Chang.
Then there is also the famous Blue Bus going to Wiang Sa.
There are also mini-vans for transport to Huai Kon (border to Laos). But only 4 times in the morning and you can not make reservations for it. So just be early! Takes about 3 to 4 hours.
Of course the inter-regional busses can also be used as transport within Nan province.

Example :

If you would like to go to Bo Klua you will have to take first the bus to Pua and then a songtheauw to Bo Klua.
If you would like to go to Na Noi you will first have to take the Blue Bus to Wiang Sa Bus Station and then change to another bus / songtheauw to Na Noi.

Transport Inter-regional

There are private bus companies like 999, Nakhon Chai Air, Green Bus and Sombat Tours, Viriya Phrae Tours, Budsarakam Tours, Cherdchai Tours going to places all over Thailand like Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Phrae, Lampang, Phitsanulok, Chonburi, Pattaya, Rayong, Phayao and even Phuket! There are also mini-vans going to Phrae and other places in North Thailand.

Update : The Green Bus company has 2 route's Nan - Chiang Mai. One via the highways passing Phrae and Lampang. Another route goes via Chun and Phrae (then via route 120 and 118 to Chiang Mai).

Transport International

A longtime old plan of a bus from Nan to Luang Prabang (Laos) seems finally reality and starting from begin November 2017 there is once a day a bus from Nan to Luang Prabang (Laos). Bus leaves everyday from Nan at 8:00 and it takes 8:30 hours to travel 373 km to Luang Prabang in Laos. Costs are 660 Thai baht. You can also get on / off in Hongsa or Xarabouly in Laos. For more information call 1490 or +66.54.710.027

Update April 2018 : Currently there is only 1 bus available so the route Nan to Luang Prabang (or visa versa) is done every other day instead of everyday.

Update June 2019 : Due to maintenance to one of the two busses there is only 1 bus going every 4 days. So on 21 June 2019 a bus goes from Nan to Luang Prabang and on 25 June the next bus is going. Visa-versa of course the same but on other days.

Update July 2022 : Due the corona crisis the border was closed and the bus from Nan to Luang Prabang is not going anymore. And even now the border is open again the bus is still not going.