[3] Although it was an inner city area, but the atmosphere in the past, it was a rural countryside and fresh air.

In addition, in those days, this palace was also used as a place to hold up to the Royal Ploughing Ceremony, which was a ceremony that has existed since ancient times to give the morale to farmers in the beginning of the planting season.

After King Rama V passed away in 1910, Queen Saovabha Phongsri used this place as a residence until she died in 1919.

[3] Currently, although the fields have disappeared, Khlong Phaya Thai was filled in to allow the road to be built, until it became just a small waterway in Phramongkutklao Hospital, but the name "Thung Phaya Thai" is still used for this area, and due to the numerous modifications of Bangkok administration making Thung Phaya Thai become part of Ratchathewi District to the present.

[5] The area is bordered by neighbouring subdistricts (from north clockwise): Phaya Thai and, Sam Sen Nai in Phaya Thai District (Khlong Sam Sen is a borderline), Makkasan, and Thanon Phetchaburi in its district (Phaya Thai Road and Si Ayutthaya Road are the borderlines), Suan Chitlada in Dusit District (Northern Railway Line is a borderline).