Train passing through Hanoi Train Street with visitors beside the railway

Hanoi Train Street: Complete 2026 Guide to Visiting, Safety, Cafés & Train Times

Hanoi Train Street is one of the Vietnamese capital’s most unusual urban sights: an active railway line running through a narrow residential neighborhood where homes, cafés and small businesses stand only a short distance from the tracks. When a train approaches, chairs are moved, people step back and, for a few dramatic seconds, the railway becomes the center of the street. It is also a...