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Urban district in Hanoi, Vietnam

Tây Hồ

Tây Hồ is an urban district (quận) located on the north side of central Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam.

Tây Hồ
Tây Hồ · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Tây Hồ is an urban district (quận) located on the north side of central Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. The district wraps around the West Lake, one of the largest natural lakes of Vietnam. The district currently has 8 wards, covering a total area of 24.39 square kilometres (9.42 sq mi). As of 2019, there were 160,495 people residing in the district, the population density is 6,600 inhabitants per square kilometer.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tây Hồ

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Presidential Palace of Vietnam

    The Presidential Palace of Vietnam, located in the city of Hanoi, currently is the official residence of the president of Vietnam and the seat of the presidential office. Before 1954, it was named the Palace of the Governor-General of Indochina.

    4.2 km · Vietnamese palace · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ba Ðình Square

    Ba Đình Square is the name of a square in Hanoi where president Ho Chi Minh read the Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on September 2, 1945. It is named after the Ba Đình Uprising, an anti-French rebellion that occurred in Vietnam in 1886–1887 as part of the Cần Vương movement.

    4.5 km · square in Hanoi, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hàng Đẫy Stadium

    Hàng Đẫy Stadium, also known as Hanoi Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is currently used mostly for football matches.

    5.1 km · stadium in Hanoi, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    One Pillar Pagoda

    The One Pillar Pagoda, formally belongs to an architecture complex called Diên Hựu tự which means 'pagoda of extended blessings'. The pagoda is a historic Buddhist temple in the central Ba Đình district, Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.

    4.5 km · Historic Buddhist temple in Hanoi, Vietnam, dedicated to the deity Guanyin · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Long Bien Bridge

    Long Biên Bridge is a historic cantilever bridge across the Red River that connects two districts, Hoàn Kiếm and Long Biên of the city of Hanoi, Vietnam. It was originally called Paul Doumer Bridge.

    5.7 km · bridge in Vietnam · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts

    The Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts is located in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is a museum showcasing Vietnam's fine arts from a range of historical periods.

    5.2 km · museum in Hanoi, Vietnam, showcasing Vietnam's fine arts from every historical period · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Lotte Center Hanoi

    Lotte Center Hanoi is a skyscraper in Ba Đình district, Hanoi, Vietnam. Completed on 2 September 2014, the tower has 65 floors.

    4.3 km · skyscraper in Hanoi, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Ho Chi Minh Museum

    The Ho Chi Minh Museum is located in Hanoi, Vietnam. Constructed in the late 1980s and opened in 1990, it is dedicated to the late Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam's revolutionary struggle against foreign powers.

    4.4 km · museum in Hanoi, Vietnam · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Trấn Quốc Pagoda

    Trấn Quốc Pagoda, the oldest Buddhist temple in Hanoi, is located on a small island near the southeastern shore of Hanoi's West Lake, Vietnam.

    3.6 km · Buddhist temple in Hanoi · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    West Lake

    West Lake is the biggest freshwater lake of Hanoi, Vietnam, located northwest of the city center. With a shore length of 17 kilometres and 500 hectares in area, this is the largest lake of the capital and a popular place for recreation with many surrounding gardens, hotels and villas.

    1.9 km · lake in Hanoi, Vietnam · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Tây Hồ

Airports
Noi Bai (HAN), 17 km · Cat Bi (HPH), 99 km · Nanning Wuxu (NNG), 298 km
Stations
Hanoi railway station, 6 km · Long Biên railway station, 5.3 km · Cầu Giấy Station, 4.7 km · Chùa Hà railway station, 4.4 km · Lê Đức Thọ Station, 5.4 km
  • Haiphong (Hai An) → Tây Hồ
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · ₫117,000–155,000
  • Da Nang → Tây Hồ
    611 km · quickest by air, 4h 36m · ₫1,701,810–2,638,970
  • Nanning (Jiangnan) → Tây Hồ
    298 km · quickest by road, 5h 52m · ¥140–185
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tây Hồ

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Tây Hồ. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBy shuttle bus – (It is not clear if these are still running as of June 2022.) Hourly between the airport and the Tickets at the airport are sold in the building in front of which the minibuses park, or you can give the fare directly to the driver.
  • Go nextThe Sapa mountain region close to the Chinese border, home to ethnic minorities, gorgeous mountain scenery, and trekking paths connecting many tiny mountain villages, is the second-most popular trip.
  • Go next320 km northwest from the capital, Sapa is accessible by direct private bus services from Hanoi, which now only takes 5h30 thanks to excellent new highways; or by 8-hour train journey from Hanoi Station to Lao Cai, then onward by minibus or hired motorbike.
  • Go nextTam Coc/Hoa Lu in Ninh Binh Province, is a day trip is combining heritage tourism and natural landscape tourism.

From Wikivoyage: Hanoi, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Sa PaVN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    246 km
  2. 02
    Luang PrabangLA

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    405 km
  3. 03
    Luang NamthaLA

    12 ways of moving, 37 sources

    457 km
  4. 04
    Huay XaiLA

    12 ways of moving, 48 sources

    568 km
  5. 05
    Pakse and Si Phan DonLA

    12 ways of moving, 45 sources

    662 km

If you know how people move in Tây Hồ – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Tây Hồ

Tây Hồ is 6 km from Hanoi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.