3 places to explore during the Mid-Autumn Festival 2025 in Hanoi

Mid-Autumn Festival 2025 falls on Monday, October 6th. Here are some suggestions for places to go during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Hanoi.

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• Hang Ma Street
• Thang Long Imperial Citadel Heritage Site
• Hanoi Old Quarter

Hang Ma Street

Nearly a month before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Hang Ma Street (Hanoi) was brightly decorated to welcome tourists to visit, take photos and shop. The closer to the Mid-Autumn Festival, the more crowded it became, especially on weekend nights.

The most eye-catching area is house number 78 Hang Ma, which is decorated with models of a crescent moon, a white rabbit, and a giant carp.

Here, visitors can freely choose from a variety of traditional and modern masks, star lanterns, and lanterns of many colors and shapes, with prices ranging from 25,000 to 150,000 VND.

Tourists flock to Hang Ma Street before the 2025 Mid-Autumn Festival. Photo: Thach Thao

Thang Long Imperial Citadel Heritage Site

In order to preserve and promote the nation's intangible cultural values ​​associated with the Mid-Autumn Festival, from October 1, the Thang Long - Hanoi Heritage Conservation Center organized the program "Happy Mid-Autumn Festival 2025" at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel Heritage Site.

Here, visitors can visit two impressive exhibition spaces with the themes of "traditional Mid-Autumn Festival" and "Mid-Autumn Festival of the Ly Dynasty".

The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival display space includes toy booths such as: lion drums, frog drums, rattlesnake drums, lion heads, papier-mâché masks, tin toys (tin ships, drumming rabbits, push-pushing butterflies, whistles, etc.), paper doctors, moon-watching stick players, lanterns, monk lanterns, star lanterns, paper animals, etc.

Meanwhile, "The Royal Mid-Autumn Festival of the Ly Dynasty" introduces historical documents and a system of paintings recreating the activities that took place during the Royal Mid-Autumn Festival more than 1,000 years ago. The exhibition space is highlighted by artifacts recreating scenes of boat racing and water puppet performances by soldiers and people.

Visitors can come between 10am and 11am or 3:30pm and 4:30pm on October 4 and 5 to watch the lion dance. Also on these two days, activities to experience making Mid-Autumn Festival toys (spinning lanterns, butterfly lanterns, star lanterns, rabbit lanterns, painting papier-mâché masks, paper kites...) will take place between 8:30am and 11:30am and 2:30pm and 5:30pm.

Hanoi Old Quarter

The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival 2025 in Hanoi's Old Quarter includes a series of activities at historical sites.

On the evening of October 3, the "Full Moon Festival" lantern procession will take place around the Old Quarter and Hoan Kiem Lake, recreating the beauty of the ancient Mid-Autumn Festival in the capital's unique cultural space.

After the lantern procession, visitors can visit the colorful Phung Hung Street mural space with lanterns and many fun activities for children with the theme of the Fairy Moon Season.

The main activities are folk games and creative games related to subjects such as Science , Technology, Engineering and Mathematics for children attending.

In addition to the above three locations, visitors can enjoy the Mid-Autumn Festival atmosphere at shopping malls in Hanoi.

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Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/tet-trung-thu-nam-2025-di-choi-o-dau-ha-noi-top-3-dia-diem-nen-kham-pha-2448403.html