09/08/2026
Hanoi Train Street.🚂🇻🇳
Iconic? Absolutely.
Touristy? Very.
A tourist trap? Only if you let it be.
Yes, there are cafés packed along the tracks. Yes, there will probably be more phones in the air than cups of Vietnamese coffee on the tables. And yes, the whole thing has become one of Hanoi’s most famous tourist attractions.
But look past that, and Train Street is still a fascinating little slice of the city.
Come for the train, but stay for everything around it — the narrow houses pressed against the railway, laundry hanging above the tracks, tiny cafés squeezed into impossible spaces, bursts of color, everyday life unfolding between passing crowds.
My advice? Don’t rush in just to get the obligatory train selfie and leave. Walk. Look around. Grab a coffee. Watch the street before and after the train passes.
Because even in Hanoi’s most photographed places, there are still photographs nobody else has taken.
All the beauty, great and small, found along the tracks.