Apartments for rent in Nam Từ Liêm (Nam Tu Liem), Hanoi

Nam Từ Liêm, centred on Mỹ Đình, is west Hanoi's newer city of towers, wide boulevards and national venues such as Mỹ Đình Stadium and the National Convention Centre. It has a settled expatriate community and several schools that serve it.

Mỹ Đình is described as a middle-class suburb with expatriate residents, and it has become an education hub, with the Japanese School of Hanoi, Vietnam-Australia School and Đoàn Thị Điểm School nearby. It is known for its many new urban developments and several skyscrapers.

In 2019 it had around 8,200 people per square kilometre, well below the inner districts. Further west along Thăng Long Boulevard, the Vinhomes Smart City area has its own large mall, Vincom Mega Mall Smart City.

Landmarks

• Mỹ Đình National Stadium (Sân vận động Quốc gia Mỹ Đình): Home ground of Vietnam's national football team, with about 40,000 seats; also hosts big concerts.
• Hanoi Museum (Bảo tàng Hà Nội): An inverted-pyramid building opened in 2010, with more than 50,000 artefacts on the city's history.
• Vietnam Military History Museum (Bảo tàng Lịch sử Quân sự Việt Nam): New museum on Thăng Long Boulevard, opened 1 November 2024, with labels in Vietnamese, French and English.
• Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower (Landmark 72): A 350-metre tower on Phạm Hùng Road, Vietnam's tallest from 2011 to 2018 and still Hanoi's tallest.
• National Convention Centre (Trung tâm Hội nghị Quốc gia): Hanoi's main national convention venue, near the stadium.

Shops, health and schools

• Supermarkets: Vincom Mega Mall Smart City, in Vinhomes Smart City on Thăng Long Boulevard, has a WinMart supermarket, 105 stores and 31 places to eat.
• Cafés and dining: Keangnam Landmark 72 has a five-storey shopping podium, and Vincom Mega Mall Smart City has 31 food and drink outlets.
• Gyms and sport: Elite Fitness Thăng Long is on level 3 of Tower A, Thăng Long Number 1, 1 Thăng Long Boulevard, at the junction with Phạm Hùng, Khuất Duy Tiến and Trần Duy Hưng.
• Healthcare: Hồng Ngọc's Keangnam general clinic is on the 10th floor of Keangnam Landmark 72.
• International schools nearby: Japanese School of Hanoi is on Hàm Nghi, Mỹ Đình 2; Vietnam-Australia School (Cambridge programmes alongside the Vietnamese curriculum) is in Mỹ Đình 1; The Olympia Schools, a bilingual school teaching ages 4–18 and offering the IB Diploma in Grades 11 and 12, is in the Trung Văn new urban area.

Getting around

• Metro Line 3's elevated section, opened on 8 August 2024, stops at Cầu Diễn and Lê Đức Thọ stations here on its way into Cầu Giấy.
• Ringway 3 runs along Phạm Hùng Boulevard past the National Convention Centre and Keangnam tower, meeting Thăng Long Boulevard, Khuất Duy Tiến and Trần Duy Hưng at one of west Hanoi's main junctions.
• Mỹ Đình Bus Station is a major terminal for city buses and long-distance buses to provinces north and north-west of Hanoi.

Good to know

• The stadium also hosts K-pop and other large concerts, so expect crowds on event nights.
• The Korean International School that once operated in Mỹ Đình has moved to nearby Mai Dịch in Cầu Giấy.
• The Military History Museum's new site is large, with tanks, aircraft and artillery on outdoor display.