# Quan Cong Temple, Hoi An

> Quan Cong Temple (Chùa Ông) is a 17th-century Chinese temple to the general Guan Yu on Tran Phu Street, right opposite Hoi An Central Market. There's no separate fee: you use one coupon of the Old Town ticket (80,000 or 120,000 VND), the same slot as the Japanese Covered Bridge. It's open daily, roughly 7:00–17:00. Twenty minutes is enough.

Web page: https://yesgo.io/vietnam/hoi-an/quan-cong-temple

- City: [Hoi An](https://yesgo.io/vietnam/hoi-an), Vietnam
- YesGo score: 39/100 (Yes, if nearby)
- Time on site: 20 min
- With kids: Fine with kids
- Ticket: One coupon of the Old Town ticket: 80,000 VND (temple or bridge + 2 sites) or 120,000 VND (temple or bridge + 1 museum + 3 sites)
- Temple or bridge: Both ticket types have one slot for either Quan Cong Temple or the Japanese Covered Bridge — not both
- Children: Free under 16, per the Hoi An heritage centre
- Validity: Up to 3 days; keep the stub — it gets you back into the Old Town
- Hours: Daily, roughly 7:00–17:00; guides give anything from 6:00–17:00 to 7:00–18:00
- Where: 24 Tran Phu, on the corner of Nguyen Hue, opposite the Central Market
- Payment: Cash in Vietnamese dong at the ticket booths; cards are for hotels and bigger restaurants
- Coordinates: 15.87754, 108.33139
- Facts checked: 05.11.2026

## Key facts

- **One coupon** — of the Old Town ticket — the temple shares its slot with the Japanese Covered Bridge, so you pick one (source: Hoi An World Cultural Heritage Conservation Centre; Da Nang Department of Tourism (danangfantasticity.com))
- **Under 16 free** — and the ticket stays valid for up to three days (source: Hoi An World Cultural Heritage Conservation Centre; Da Nang Department of Tourism (danangfantasticity.com))
- **By 1653** — the temple was standing, built by the Minh Huong community, descendants of Chinese settlers (source: Hoi An Monuments Management Board heritage record; Báo Văn hóa)
- **24 Tran Phu** — on the corner of Nguyen Hue, with the Central Market across the street (source: Hoi An Monuments Management Board heritage record; Báo Văn hóa)
- **3 statues** — on the main altar: Quan Cong with his adopted son Guan Ping and his shield-bearer Zhou Cang (source: Hoi An Monuments Management Board heritage record; localvietnam.com)
- **2 horses** — one white, one red — the red one is Red Hare, Guan Yu's legendary horse; each has its own altar (source: Hoi An Monuments Management Board heritage record; Báo Văn hóa)
- **24th day, 6th lunar month** — the temple's main festival in honour of Quan Cong (source: Báo Văn hóa; vinwonders.com)
- **1775** — the year of a poem by Nguyen Nghiem, father of the poet Nguyen Du, kept in the temple (source: Hoi An Monuments Management Board heritage record; vinwonders.com)
- **Glazed tiles** — on the roof, with dragons and mythical beasts in coloured porcelain mosaic along the ridge (source: Hoi An Monuments Management Board heritage record; localvietnam.com)
- **Quan Am Pagoda** — stands behind the temple on the same grounds, entered from Nguyen Hue Street (source: Hoi An Monuments Management Board heritage record; hoiandaytrip.com)

> **The temple and the Japanese Bridge share one coupon** Both Old Town ticket types include exactly one of these two: **the Japanese Covered Bridge or Quan Cong Temple**. Use the coupon here and you can't cross the bridge on the same ticket, and vice versa. Want both? Buy a second ticket. The easy fix: photograph the bridge from the bank for free and spend the coupon on the temple — there's simply more to see inside.

## How much is the Quan Cong Temple entrance fee?

There's no ticket just for the temple — it's one coupon of the **Hoi An Old Town ticket**. According to the Hoi An heritage centre's visitor notice from January 2026, there are two versions, both open to every visitor. **80,000 VND** covers the Old Town, the Japanese Bridge or Quan Cong Temple, and two more sites of your choice. **120,000 VND** covers the same bridge-or-temple slot, one museum and three more sites.

The ticket is valid for **up to three days**, so you can buy it one evening and use the coupons the next morning. Once every coupon is torn off, keep the stub — it's your pass back into the Old Town. **Under-16s go free**, and groups buying eight or more tickets get a free guide from the centre.

You'll still see older price lists and blogs calling the two prices a "foreigner" and a "Vietnamese" rate. The official notice doesn't make that split — the difference is how many sites you get. Booths sit at the entrances to the Old Town and take **cash in dong**; foreign Visa and Mastercard work in hotels and larger restaurants, but street food, markets and booths are cash-only, so carry small notes.

Which one to buy? If you only want the temple, a couple of houses and an evening stroll, 80,000 is enough. Add a museum and a third old house and the 120,000 ticket is still cheaper than a second ticket.

## Quan Cong Temple opening hours

The heritage centre doesn't publish hours for the temple itself, and travel guides disagree — anywhere from 6:00–17:00 to 7:00–18:00. The safe window is **roughly 7:00 to 17:00, every day**. It's closed by the time the lanterns come on, so this is a daytime stop.

Go **early, before about 9:30**: it's cooler and quiet, and the market across the road is at its busiest and most fun. By midday it's hot and busier. On festival days locals come with incense and fruit — crowded, but you see the temple doing what it was built for.

The big day is the **24th day of the 6th lunar month**, Quan Cong's festival, with offerings from the town's communities and a lion dance. The Western date moves every year and falls in summer — in 2025 it was 18 July.

> **Dress code: it's a working temple** People come here to pray, so **cover your shoulders and knees** and leave beachwear at the hotel. Keep your voice down near the altar, don't touch the statues or offerings, and photograph worshippers only from a distance. Anyone can light an incense stick — have a few small notes ready.

## What is Quan Cong Temple?

Locals call it **Chùa Ông**, roughly "the Lord's pagoda"; its formal name is Quan Công Miếu. It's dedicated to **Quan Cong**, the Vietnamese name for Guan Yu, a general of China's Three Kingdoms period who is worshipped across East Asia as the model of loyalty and honesty. In a trading port like Hoi An, that made him the patron of a fair deal — merchants swore oaths and settled disputes in front of his altar.

The temple was built by the **Minh Huong** community, descendants of Chinese settlers who had become Vietnamese. There's no exact founding date. The official heritage record notes a 1753 stele saying the temple was already "over a hundred years old", and a wooden board at the entrance dated 1653, so historians say it stood by 1653 at the latest. An imperial chronicle records that Emperor Minh Mang stopped here in 1825 and gave the temple 300 taels of silver. For a long time it was the spiritual centre of the whole town.

The layout is a group of halls around a square courtyard. The three-bay front hall runs along Tran Phu; covered galleries lead along both sides of the courtyard to the main hall at the back. The roof is glazed tube tiles, its ridge crowded with dragons and mythical beasts in broken-porcelain mosaic. According to the heritage record, the woodwork was done by carpenters from nearby Kim Bong village — a Chinese temple built by Vietnamese hands.

Steles in the courtyard walls record repairs in 1753, 1783, 1827, 1864, 1904 and 1966. There's never been a major rebuild, so what you see keeps its old form.

## What to see inside

- **The main altar** at the back — the figure of Quan Cong, flanked by his adopted son **Guan Ping** and his shield-bearer **Zhou Cang**.
- **Two horses** on either side of the hall, one white and one red. The red one is **Red Hare**, Guan Yu's legendary mount. They're the photo everyone takes.
- **Three wooden halberds** — Guan Yu's "green dragon" blade, which the heritage record lists here in triplicate.
- **Lacquered boards and couplets** — more than 33 horizontal boards and 10 pairs of calligraphy panels, including verses Nguyen Nghiem, father of the great poet Nguyen Du, wrote in Hoi An in 1775.
- **Stone steles** in the courtyard walls recording the repairs, plus a big bell and drum.
- **The roof ridge** — look up from the courtyard to see the porcelain-shard dragons.
- **Quan Am Pagoda** — a Buddhist temple directly behind, on the same grounds, with its own entrance on Nguyen Hue Street.

## How to get to Quan Cong Temple

1. **From Da Nang Airport (DAD)** — about 30 km, 40–50 minutes by taxi, Grab or shuttle bus. Hoi An has no airport or train station of its own. Grab takes cash or a linked foreign card.
2. **Get dropped at the edge of the walking zone** — on Tran Hung Dao or Phan Chu Trinh Street; cars and motorbikes are kept out of the Old Town from 9:00 until late evening. Walk south along **Nguyen Hue Street** towards the river — about 5 minutes to the corner of Tran Phu.
3. **From the Japanese Covered Bridge** — about 7 minutes on foot east along the whole of **Tran Phu Street**, past the assembly halls. The temple is on the Nguyen Hue corner, facing [Hoi An Central Market](https://yesgo.io/vietnam/hoi-an/hoi-an-central-market).
4. **Buy your ticket first** at any booth at an Old Town entrance — staff tear off a coupon at the temple door.
5. **Next** — the market is across the street, and the [Fujian Assembly Hall](https://yesgo.io/vietnam/hoi-an/fujian-assembly-hall) is a couple of minutes west along Tran Phu.

## Is Quan Cong Temple worth visiting?

It's small: **20 minutes** covers the courtyard, the altar, the horses and the roof. If you've seen big Chinese temples elsewhere, the building alone won't blow you away. What makes it worth it is that it's Hoi An's oldest and most revered temple, and it's still in use — incense smoke, fruit offerings, locals bowing at the altar.

It's a clear yes if you're spending the bridge-or-temple coupon anyway. There's little to see inside the Japanese Bridge, so photograph it from outside for free and use the coupon here. If you're not buying an Old Town ticket at all, the temple alone isn't a reason to — wander [Hoi An Ancient Town](https://yesgo.io/vietnam/hoi-an/hoi-an-old-town) first and decide there.

It pairs best with breakfast: the temple at opening time, then noodles at the market opposite, then the Fujian hall and the old houses along Tran Phu before the heat builds.

## Temple or bridge: which gets your coupon?

|  | Quan Cong Temple | Japanese Covered Bridge |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ticket slot | The same one — temple or bridge | The same one — bridge or temple |
| Where | East end of Tran Phu, by the market | West end of Tran Phu |
| Free from outside | Only the street front | The whole bridge, from the bank |
| Time needed | About 20 minutes | About 20 minutes |

Ticket contents follow the Hoi An heritage centre's notice. Our take: photograph the bridge from outside and give the coupon to the temple.

## Before you go

Tick off what's ready — your checks stay in this browser.

- [ ] Old Town ticket, or dong in cash to buy one
- [ ] Decided: temple or Japanese Bridge for this coupon
- [ ] Arrive before 17:00, ideally in the morning
- [ ] Shoulders and knees covered
- [ ] Small notes for incense
- [ ] Time for breakfast at the market opposite

## Temples and shrines in Hoi An

Hoi An's temples and assembly halls with a YesGo score.

- [Japanese Covered Bridge](https://yesgo.io/vietnam/hoi-an/japanese-covered-bridge) — YesGo score 40/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 20 min · Old Town ticket: 80,000–120,000 VND
- [Quan Cong Temple](https://yesgo.io/vietnam/hoi-an/quan-cong-temple) — YesGo score 39/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 20 min · Old Town ticket, 80,000–120,000 VND
- [Fujian Assembly Hall](https://yesgo.io/vietnam/hoi-an/fujian-assembly-hall) — YesGo score 39/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 30 min · Old Town ticket, 80,000–120,000 VND
- [My Son Sanctuary](https://yesgo.io/vietnam/hoi-an/my-son-sanctuary) — YesGo score 26/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 2 h 30 min · 150,000 VND

## A morning from the temple to the bridge

Quan Cong Temple at opening time, breakfast at the Central Market, then the Fujian Assembly Hall, Tan Ky House and the Japanese Bridge from outside. Add them to your route — YesGo fits in the timing and walks.

1. [Quan Cong Temple](https://yesgo.io/vietnam/hoi-an/quan-cong-temple) — YesGo score 39/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 20 min · Old Town ticket, 80,000–120,000 VND
2. [Hoi An Central Market](https://yesgo.io/vietnam/hoi-an/hoi-an-central-market) — YesGo score 44/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 45 min · Free entry
3. [Fujian Assembly Hall](https://yesgo.io/vietnam/hoi-an/fujian-assembly-hall) — YesGo score 39/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 30 min · Old Town ticket, 80,000–120,000 VND
4. [Tan Ky Old House](https://yesgo.io/vietnam/hoi-an/tan-ky-old-house) — YesGo score 39/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 20 min · One Old Town ticket coupon
5. [Japanese Covered Bridge](https://yesgo.io/vietnam/hoi-an/japanese-covered-bridge) — YesGo score 40/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 20 min · Old Town ticket: 80,000–120,000 VND

## Don't confuse it with

Quan Am Pagoda, the Buddhist temple to the goddess of mercy right behind it on the same plot. Nor with the many other Guan Yu temples across Vietnam and China — this one is simply the oldest in Hoi An.

## Tips

- Spend the bridge-or-temple coupon here and photograph the Japanese Bridge from outside — you get both on one ticket.
- Come at opening time: the temple is quiet and the market opposite is already in full swing.
- It shuts before dark — save the lanterns for later in the evening.
- The ticket lasts up to three days: buy it one evening, start with the temple the next morning.
- Covered shoulders and knees, quiet voices at the altar — it's a working temple.
- Carry small dong notes for incense and market breakfast.

## Questions

### Where is Quan Cong Temple in Hoi An?

At 24 Tran Phu Street, on the corner of Nguyen Hue, opposite the Central Market. It's about a 7-minute walk east of the Japanese Covered Bridge.

### Do I need a ticket for Quan Cong Temple?

Yes — entry uses one coupon of the Old Town ticket, 80,000 or 120,000 VND. There's no separate fee, and under-16s are free.

### Can I visit the temple and the Japanese Bridge on one ticket?

No. Each ticket has a single slot for either Quan Cong Temple or the Japanese Bridge. You'd need a second ticket, but the bridge is free to look at from outside.

### What are the opening hours?

There are no official hours; guides say anything from 6:00–17:00 to 7:00–18:00. Plan for 7:00–17:00, daily.

### Who is Quan Cong?

The Vietnamese name for Guan Yu, a general of China's Three Kingdoms period worshipped as the symbol of loyalty and honesty — and, for Hoi An's merchants, of fair trade.

### Why is it called Ong Pagoda?

Chùa Ông is the popular name, roughly "the Lord's pagoda". The formal name is Quan Công Miếu, the temple of Quan Cong.

### How old is Quan Cong Temple?

It stood by 1653 at the latest, built by the Minh Huong community. A 1753 stele already called it more than a hundred years old.

### What are the horse statues?

A white horse and a red one. The red horse is Red Hare, Guan Yu's legendary mount; both have their own altars.

### How long do I need?

About 20 minutes. Combine it with breakfast at the market across the street and the Fujian Assembly Hall a short walk away.

### What should I wear?

Covered shoulders and knees, no beachwear. It's an active temple where people pray and leave offerings.

## How we checked

Ticket types, three-day validity and free entry under 16 come from the Hoi An heritage centre's notice of 29.01.2026; it makes no foreigner/Vietnamese split, although older price tables and guides do — we follow the notice. History, address, layout, statues and repairs were checked against the 1991 heritage record published by the centre; the festival and Quan Cong's companions also against Báo Văn hóa and travel guides. Guides disagree on the festival (24th day of the 5th or 6th lunar month); we give the 6th, as Báo Văn hóa and vinwonders do. There are no official temple hours: guides give 6:00–17:00, 7:00–17:00 and 7:00–18:00, so we show the overlap, 7:00–17:00, as unofficial. Guides mention national listing in 1991, but the heritage record itself only requests it, so we leave it out. We couldn't confirm a carp pond in the courtyard and don't mention one. The English core comes from English search results and related questions.

## Sources

- Hoi An World Cultural Heritage Conservation Centre, Old Town visitor notice of 29.01.2026 (hoianheritage.danang.gov.vn): ticket types, bridge or Quan Cong Temple, 3-day validity, free under 16, group guide
- Hoi An Monuments Management Board, heritage record "Quan Công Miếu" of 30.09.1991 (hoianheritage.danang.gov.vn): address, Minh Huong community, dating, repairs, layout, roof, statues, horses, halberds, boards, 1775 poem
- Da Nang Department of Tourism (danangfantasticity.com): article on Hoi An Ancient Town tickets 2026
- Báo Văn hóa, article on the Quan Cong festival (2025): festival date, address, Minh Huong community, horse altars
- Wikidata Q56320631
- vinwonders.com, localvietnam.com, hoiandaytrip.com, nashaplaneta.net: opening hours, dress code, Quan Am Pagoda (unofficial)

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