Explore Hội An

The Fujian Assembly Hall at 46 Trần Phú in Hội An was the meeting place and temple of the town's Chinese community from Fujian. It grew from a small shrine to the sea goddess Thiên Hậu set up in 1697. Behind the gate, a courtyard with a pond leads past east and west wings to the main hall with her altar and a rear hall for the community's ancestors.

The Museum of Trade Ceramics opened in 1995 with help from Japanese specialists, in a two-storey 19th-century wooden house at 80 Trần Phú in Hội An. Its pieces from the 9th to the 19th century, found at sites around Hội An, trace the sea trade in ceramics from China, Japan, Thailand, the Middle East and Vietnam that passed through the port.

Hội An Old Town is the preserved centre of a trading port on the Thu Bồn River that drew Chinese, Japanese and other foreign merchants from the 15th to the 19th century. Listed by UNESCO in 1999, it keeps over a thousand old timber houses, Chinese assembly halls, family chapels and the covered Japanese Bridge; a visitor ticket covers a set of these houses and halls.

The Japanese Bridge is a covered wooden footbridge about 18 m long over a small canal in Hội An's old town. Japanese merchants built it in the 1590s, and a small temple to the guardian deity Trấn Vũ was added on its north side in 1653. Lord Nguyễn Phúc Chu named it Lai Viễn Kiều in 1719; carved dog and monkey statues stand at its ends.