Colossal reclining Buddha Chaukhtatgyi Pagoda is the most well-known Buddhist temple in Yangon. It houses one of the most revered reclining Buddha images in the country. The Buddha image is 65 metres long and one of the largest in Myanmar. It was built 1907 by Sir Hpo Thar, a wealthy Buddhist followers. Its architecture is quite solid, covered by an iron structure with corrugated iron sheets roof of six layers. Therefore, its general name is the six-tiered pagoda. In the vicinity of the pagoda, there are several monasteries which accommodate over six hundred monks who study Buddhist Scriptures from senior and qualified monks.

The National Museum (Yangon) is the one of the national museum of Burmese art, history and culture in Myanmar. It is founded in 1952, the five-story museum has an extensive collection of ancient artifacts, ornaments, works of art, inscriptions and historic memorabilia, related to history, culture and civilization of Burmese people. One can study the origins of the Myanmar alphabet at the ground floor. Myanmar script and literature as well as those of the other national races of Myanmar. On the first floor of the museum are four halls. one with an impressive display of the royal regalia. a second hall with exhibits of historic significance; the third hall with exhibits of pre-historic times and the fourth containing exhibits on natural history. The second floor of the museum is where exhibits on Myanmar culture can be seen with one hall assigned to Myanmar music. song and dance. On the third floor of the museum are 3 exhibition halls. two for Myanmar paintings and a third for ancient ornaments and jewelry. On the fourth floor are halls for the Buddha Images and for the display of the culture of the ethnic races of Myanmar. The Buddha images include those which date back to the Pyu Period and up to the present day.

Downtown Yangon is known for the highest number of colonial period buildings in Southeast Asia. The former Secretariat buildings and the Strand Hotel are excellent examples of the Yangon's past Century-old buildings with magnificent architecture are main tourist attraction in downtown Yangon.

Bogyoke Aung San Market (formerly Scott's Market) is a major bazaar, known for its colonial architecture and inner cobblestone streets, the market is a major tourist destination, dominated by antique, Burmese handicraft and jewellery shops, art galleries, and clothing stores. The market is a square type based and therefore divided into the East wing, West wing, North wing and South wing. The shopping items are not categorized in the respective wings. Looking around and finding the most suitable item would be fun. There are also traditional, Myanmar and Chinese food stalls in the market.

The Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as the Golden Pagoda, is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar, as it is believed to contain relics of the four previous Buddhas of the present kalpa. According to legend two merchant brothers from Okkalapa (present day Yangon) who lived about 2,500 years ago met the Buddha in India. The Buddha gave them eight of His hairs and told them to enshrine them in the same spot on a hill in Okkalapa where relics of the previous three reincarnations of the Buddha were buried. The brothers returned to Okkalapa and presented the Buddha relics to their King, who started searching for the spot. After years of searching in vain a Nat spirit called Sularata decided to help the King. The Nat who was millions of years old hat witnessed the visits of the previous three Buddhas and remembered the spot on Singuttara hill where the relics were enshrined. It was at this spot that the Shwedagon pagoda was built.