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.
Walking times as Google Maps routes them, read on 21 September 2026, 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 | 102 m |
| Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange | 6 min | 440 m |
| Bến Thành metro station | 7 min | 417 m |
| Quách Thị Trang Square | 7 min | 455 m |
| Bến Thành Market | 7 min | 459 m |
| State Bank of Vietnam | 9 min | 626 m |
| Bitexco Tower | 12 min | 781 m |
| Nguyễn Huệ | 12 min | 757 m |
| Opera House | 16 min | 1073 m |
| Independence Palace | 18 min | 1200 m |
| Notre-Dame Cathedral | 21 min | 1391 m |
| Post Office | 21 min | 1381 m |
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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 · 102 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.
7 min · 459 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.
7 min · 417 m
The city terminus of Metro Line 1, underneath Quách Thị Trang Square, with entrances around the square rather than one front door.
12 min · 757 m
The city's pedestrian boulevard, closed to traffic and running from the People's Committee building down to the river.
12 min · 781 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.
Every leg of both guides has a walking figure. The metro guide's two come from the same Google Maps routes as the table above; the District One walk is routed stop to stop on OpenStreetMap.
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.