Phung Hung Old House Nhà cổ Phùng Hưng
Merchant house with three roofs in one
A merchant house more than a hundred years old at 4 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, a short walk from the Japanese bridge. Its balcony is Chinese, its middle roof Japanese, and its frame Vietnamese, all on eighty ironwood columns set on stone. The eighth generation of the family still lives here.
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The timber balcony and the doorway at number 4
Photo: Shoestring · Public domain
The house is at 4 Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, the street that meets the Japanese bridge. A Vietnamese merchant built it more than a hundred years ago, and the name Phùng Hưng means prosperity. It was a shop for cinnamon, pepper, salt, silk, porcelain, and glass. The eighth generation still lives here and looks after it.
Photo: Khương Việt Hà · Public domain
The building is three schools in one tube house. The balcony and the doors are Chinese. The middle bay has a four-direction roof, tứ hải, in the Japanese manner. The timber frame, the beams, and the two-direction roofs on the front and back bays are Vietnamese. Eighty ironwood columns sit on stone feet so the wood does not touch the ground. The doors can be taken down, the eaves brackets are carved as carp, and upstairs the family keeps an altar to Thiên Hậu.
Come in the morning. Old houses are optional stops on the old-town ticket.
Getting there and around
Walk from the Japanese bridge along Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai to number 4.
If the night is by the old town, search Old Town hotels.
From the Japanese bridge
Walk along Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai to number 4.
Hours and fees
- Hours
Check on arrival
- Closed
No weekly closing day published.
- Admission
No separate price for this building. From 10 Aug 2026: 20,000 VND per person per building, the same for every visitor (Da Nang Resolution 98/2026). Heritage centre notices of 26 Jan and 16 Mar 2026: 80,000 VND (streetscape, Chùa Cầu or Miếu Quan Công, and two other works) or 120,000 VND (adds a museum and three other works), usable through a stay of up to three days. A May 2026 article counts those as four and six works. Ask at the booth which ticket is on sale.
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