Explore Saigon
Coffee first, then everywhere. Every distance below was routed on one engine, from the café door.
One café at 42 Nguyễn Thái Bình, District 1, open daily 07:00–23:00. Every walk on this page starts and ends at this door.
Measured on OpenStreetMap routing with pedestrian costing, from 42 Nguyễn Thái Bình. A place that has never been routed is not on this list rather than estimated onto it.
| Place | Walk | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts | 2 min | 116 m |
| Bến Thành metro station | 6 min | 416 m |
| Quách Thị Trang Square | 6 min | 452 m |
| Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange | 6 min | 345 m |
| Bến Thành Market | 7 min | 509 m |
| State Bank of Vietnam | 8 min | 584 m |
| Bitexco Tower | 9 min | 660 m |
| Nguyễn Huệ | 10 min | 739 m |
| Opera House | 15 min | 1137 m |
| Notre-Dame Cathedral | 18 min | 1440 m |
| Independence Palace | 20 min | 1465 m |
| Post Office | 23 min | 1741 m |
One page per place people actually walk between: the measured distance, what the place is, and why this café is on the way.
2 min · 116 m
Three ochre-and-white buildings from the 1930s around a courtyard, built as a private house and a museum since the 1980s — Óc Eo and Champa sculpture downstairs, twentieth-century Vietnamese painting above.
6 min · 416 m
The city terminus of Metro Line 1, underneath Quách Thị Trang Square, with entrances around the square rather than one front door.
7 min · 509 m
The city's central market since 1914: one covered hall with entrances on all four sides, a working market early in the morning and a crowd from ten until three.
9 min · 660 m
The 68-storey tower with the helipad on its side, the tallest thing on the District 1 skyline for a decade, with a public observation deck on the 49th floor.
10 min · 739 m
The city's pedestrian boulevard, closed to traffic and running from the People's Committee building down to the river.
Both guides are measured leg by leg, the same way as the table above.
7 stops
Six landmarks in District 1, in the order they make sense on foot, starting from 42 Nguyễn Thái Bình in Bến Thành Ward.
3 stops
How Bến Thành station and 42 Nguyễn Thái Bình relate on foot — the guide runs both ways, with a routed estimate for each leg.
Most of what is on this page is also walking distance from the hotels in Bến Thành Ward — the neighbourhood most booking sites still list under its older name, Nguyễn Thái Bình.