4 Famous Book streets in Hanoi
Hanoi Book Street with the ancient beauty of the capital is always a destination for book lovers. This place has a lot of precious books, antique books, book signing activities... It does not waste your time when coming here to read, buy and check-in.
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1. 19/12 Book Street
Address: 19/12 Book street, Tran Hung Dao, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
19/12 Book Street is a small street connecting Ly Thuong Kiet and Hai Ba Trung streets. Few people know that this street was formerly a place to park cars for the famous "Hell market" before, then it was re-built to be a book street and officially put into operation in May 2017. Since then, this is a familiar stop for Ha Thanh people and tourists everywhere to visit.
At the beginning of this 200 meter-long street, you will see a stone column embossed with the words "Hanoi book street" and the cultural symbol of Hanoi - Temple of Literature.
Book Street was built not only to create a place to sell books but also to provide a cultural space where events such as the introduction of new works, exchanges and discussions with authors are held for readers of the capital.
At this place, you can find many booths with books from famous publishers such as Kim Dong, Phuong Nam, Nha Nam, Tien Phong, etc. However, the exhibition booth is quite small, mainly selling new and outstanding books of bookstores, but not really rich in genres.
The scene of the book street is like an old town with ancient and quiet dark green stalls, along with mossy trees on both sides of the road and the dark color of paving bricks. The campus is really suitable for reading a good book, walking and chatting.
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2. Dinh Le Book Street
Address: Dinh Le Street, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
If you consider the 19/12 Book street is a growing child, therefore Dinh Le is an adult who has grown up with the development of Hanoi. Local people around Hoan Kiem Lake used to say a sentence like this "Going to Hoan Kiem Lake, remember to visit Trang Tien Plaza, eat Trang Tien ice cream and stop at Dinh Le Book street".
In the past, Hanoi's two largest state-owned bookstores, Quoc Van Bookstore and Foreign Language Bookstore are located here, making this place famous as the busiest place to sell books.
But the name Dinh Le was born thanks to the small shop of Mrs. Pham Thi Mao. Today, this small shop has become a long-standing Mao bookstore that no one does not know in Hanoi. Although nowadays there are many large and small bookstores springing up, Mao" is still a familiar name for students. The space here has faded and bold traces of time. Stepping inside you will see a lot of giant bookshelves and the familiar spiral staircase. If you are a book lover, do not miss this place.
In addition to Mao, Dinh Le book street also owns many different shops with many genres of books: learning, foreign literature, horror, detective, life, ... it's very diverse from all over the world and time... These large, tall and filled bookshelves can always serve the needs of young students, seniors and middle-aged parents.
Although it has been for a long time, with an extremely favorable location near Hoan Kiem Lake and the reputation it has built, this book street is still extremely crowded, especially on weekends.
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3. Lang Book Street
Address: Lang street, Lang Thuong, Dong Da district, Hanoi
Tien Tho and Duc Tri bookstores are two big guys in the book industry in the capital, and both of these stores are on Lang street.
What makes this book street more special than the rest of the book streets is its antiquity. Antiquity does not either come from the outside design like 19/12 Book street, or come from a long time of existence like Dinh Le Street, the quaint on Lang street is from selling used books. The shops here have quite a lot of books, ranging from literature, history, geography, accounting, banking, foreign language books... You could just need to give the name of the book then the shop owner will give you the book you want.
Although in the past, the shops here mainly sold used books, now they also have new books, stories, magazines, professional books ... serving a variety of customers' needs. In addition, buyers can also find good new books with prices down from 30-40% of the normal price on the market.
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4. Pham Van Dong Book Street
Address: Pham Van Dong, Dich Vong Hau, Cau Giay, Hanoi
Pham Van Dong book street is stretching from the gate of the University of Foreign Languages, Hanoi National University to Tran Quoc Hoan Street. This place was a paradise for students in the past because the prices were surprisingly cheap.
The stalls are displayed on the sidewalk with all kinds of books: foreign languages, textbooks, reference books, economic books, etc., which focus on the audience who are students. Sometimes here also organizes events such as book fairs, selling books by kg, which attracts thousands of visitors every day.
Books here are quite cheap, so they attract a lot of students to visit and buy. Many books cost only 10k so it is very suitable for students who love to read but can not spend too much money to buy new books.
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