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Trịnh Công Sơn: the pedestrian street that keeps changing, and the peach gardens behind it
20 verified homes to rent on Trịnh Công Sơn, Hanoi, managed by Nest Living.
Quieter than Xuân Diệu, and further from everything
Trịnh Công Sơn is about five hundred metres of lakeside road on the far northern shore, in what was Nhật Tân village. It is the quietest of the seven big-listing Tây Hồ streets, and the trade-off for that quiet is distance.
The pedestrian street: what happened to it
The street’s most-advertised feature needs correcting. Trịnh Công Sơn opened as a pedestrian street in May 2018. Vietnamese press reported it drew crowds for about three months and then emptied out. In November 2023 the pedestrian street was reported as formally ceasing operation, with Tây Hồ converting it into a creative cultural space running events and concerts on Saturdays and Sundays. Later coverage still describes it as operating. The honest position is that the format has changed at least twice and you should check what is actually happening on a given weekend rather than trusting a listing photo.
Nhật Tân, the peach village that turns the street into a car park each Tết
What does not change is Nhật Tân behind it. The peach gardens run down towards the Red River and are the source of most of the peach blossom sold in Hanoi at Tết. In the fortnight before the lunar new year the area fills with buyers, growers, delivery vans and photographers. If you like that, it is the best seat in the city. If you commute by motorbike, plan for it.
What is within a short walk
On the street itself there is a WinMart, Jewel Diner, a bia hơi, Sakura Clinic, an Agribank branch, the Nhật Tân ward culture house and Phan Chu Trinh High School. It is thin compared with Xuân Diệu, and that is the point. Hồ Tây Water Park and the West Lake Flower Valley are a few minutes west along the shore.
Who it suits
Rent here if you want lake on your doorstep, a short walk to Nhật Tân’s food, and you accept a ten to fifteen minute ride to the Xuân Diệu cluster. Do not rent here expecting the pedestrian street of the 2018 photographs.
Homes available on Trịnh Công Sơn today
