Son Tra Night Market in Da Nang: Address, Opening Hours, What to Eat and How to Pair It with the Dragon Bridge Fire Show

Where Son Tra Night Market Is and When It Opens

Son Tra Night Market is at the junction of Mai Hac De and Ly Nam De streets, east of Dragon Bridge on the east bank of the Han River. Articles from before July 2025 give the address as An Hai Tay Ward, Son Tra District. After the administrative reorganisation of 1 July 2025 the district no longer exists, so on maps and booking sites you may meet both the old and new names. According to doanhnghiephoinhap.vn, the market opened on the evening of 2 September 2018 with 152 stalls, organised by the Son Tra District People’s Committee together with DHTC Da Nang JSC, alongside the pedestrian street on the same stretch.

Is the Market Still Operating: What We Know

This is the section to read before you plan for a whole group. SGGP (9 July 2024) reported that after a 5-year pilot of phase 1, the Son Tra District People’s Committee had announced the market would end from 1 July 2024. The reasons given were its position next to Dragon Bridge, frequent traffic overload, and effects on security and cleanliness during holidays, Tet and weekends. The city then agreed to extend it to the end of September 2024 and planned to move phase 2 to another location.

After that, a Tuoi Tre article dated 18 March 2025 reported that the site used for Son Tra Night Market, right at the Dragon Bridge end, was offered for lease at a starting price of over 260,000 VND (~$10.4 USD) per square metre per year. Travel articles from mid-2025 onward, including mia.vn (26 July 2025) and Tuoi Tre (September 2025), still describe the market trading at the Dragon Bridge end. We have found no official 2026 notice about hours or a change of location, so do not treat this as a certainty in your itinerary. The safe approach is to ask your hotel or pin the spot on a map a few hours before you go, and to keep another dinner option on the east bank of the Han River.

What to Eat at Son Tra Night Market

According to Tuoi Tre (September 2025), the market has two main zones: food and souvenirs. The food zone offers banh xeo (sizzling crispy pancakes), Mi Quang (turmeric noodles), bun mam nem (rice noodles with fermented anchovy sauce), banh cuon (steamed rice rolls), grilled skewers, grilled meat and seafood displayed on ice trays. The Vietnam Airlines guide also mentions fish cake noodles, grilled pork noodles, grilled rice paper, rolled ice cream, sweet desserts and sugarcane or fresh coconut water. None of these sources publishes an official price list, so we give no specific prices.

• Seafood: pick your item from the ice tray and ask for it grilled with scallion oil, steamed with lemongrass or salt-roasted. Ask the price by weight or by piece, and confirm the cooking fee before you order.
• Noodle and fried dishes: Mi Quang, fish cake noodles and banh xeo suit a light bite before the Dragon Bridge show.
• Tip for choosing a stall: the Vietnam Airlines guide advises picking stalls full of local customers and notes that market seafood is usually less fresh than eating straight at a beachside spot.

Shopping and Market Tips

The souvenir zone sells plenty of small things that are easy to carry home. Mia.vn lists hand-embroidered pictures, small marble statues, wooden fans printed with Dragon Bridge, paper lanterns, shell decorations and children’s toys. Tuoi Tre adds conical hats, keychains printed with Hoi An and Dragon Bridge, and a portrait-drawing stall. If you want genuine marble, look at the Non Nuoc marble carving village, because the market stalls mostly carry small items.

• Bring cash in small notes (about 10,000 to 50,000 VND, or ~$0.4 to $2 USD, as the Vietnam Airlines guide suggests) because many stalls do not take cards.
• Mia.vn encourages asking prices and bargaining. For food, ask the price clearly before you order.
• Keep backpacks and bags in front of you because the market is crowded, especially on weekend evenings.
• Wear light clothes and comfortable shoes or sandals, since there is quite a lot of walking on the pedestrian street.

Pairing It with the Dragon Bridge Fire Show

According to the Danang Fantasticity site, Dragon Bridge performs at 9:00 PM on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and major holidays, with about 2 minutes of fire followed by about 3 minutes of water. Since the market is only about 200 m from the bridge, you can finish dinner and walk over. Some travel articles say vehicles are blocked from the bridge from about 8:45 PM, but this is not an official notice and may change around holidays, so walk rather than drive across near 9:00 PM. For the end-of-year timetable, see our Dragon Bridge fire show schedule for late 2026. If you would like to watch the bridge from above, see Han River cafes with a view of Dragon Bridge.

1. Step 1: 6:00 to 7:00 PM arrive at the market. The market is still roomy, so choose a dinner stall and park early.
2. Step 2: 7:00 to 8:30 PM dinner and a browse of the souvenir stalls. Order lightly if you plan to eat again after the show.
3. Step 3: 8:30 PM walk to Dragon Bridge. Pick your spot early, and avoid standing right by the dragon’s head because the fire is hot and the water show can soak you.
4. Step 4: after 9:15 PM return to the market. Have dessert, buy gifts and plan your ride home before midnight.

Bad weather can change the show schedule, so do not stake your whole dinner on a single performance.

Parking and Getting There

The Vietnam Airlines guide says motorbikes park along Tran Hung Dao Street or at nearby venues, and cars park in the basement under the foot of Dragon Bridge or in the lot near Tran Thi Ly Bridge, with reference fees of about 5,000 VND ($0.2 USD) for a motorbike and 10,000 VND ($0.4 USD) for a car. From Friday to Sunday evenings, the spaces near the bridge often fill early, so arrive before the peak or park farther away and walk.

• From My Khe and Son Tra: the market is quite close, so you can use a taxi, a ride-hailing car or a motorbike. Go early to avoid the jam at the bridge end on weekend nights.
• From Hoi An: the coastal road is about 30 km and 40 minutes according to Sun Travel’s route list, and a private car saves you hunting for a ride back late at night.
• From the airport: drop your luggage at the hotel first and then head to the market so getting around is simpler.

Private Car to Son Tra Night Market

If you stay in Hoi An and want to see Dragon Bridge and then eat at the night market, the main route is the Hoi An to Da Nang private car, and fares for each vehicle type are in the Da Nang and Hoi An car price list. The time the car waits while you eat and watch the bridge falls outside the standard route, so it is stated before you confirm the trip. Dispatch support runs 24/7, and you can cancel or change the time free of charge when you notify us at least 2 hours ahead.