Nana Entertainment Plaza (Bangkok (Krungthep))

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 and allegedly takes its name from an Indian family that owns the land.

The Plaza is in the shape of a square 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.

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 (transsexuals or simply males dressed up as women), a few do so exclusively. As of 2005 these are Obsession (ground floor), Casanova, Temptations (middle floor) and Cascade (top floor). The "female" staff at these are almost all pre-operative, as opposed to the kathoey bars in Patpong.

Nana Plaza is within walking distance of the SkyTrain's "Nana Station".

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