Saigon Railway Station is a railway station in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City , formerly named Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam...

, Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

. This station is the largest and most important railroad transportation hub of Vietnam as Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City , formerly named Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam...

 is the largest city and the economic center of Vietnam. The station was constructed in early 1930s by the French

France

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 colonists, as part of the Hanoi-Saigon Railway

North-South Railway, Vietnam

The Vietnam North-South Railway, also known as the Reunification Express, is a railway that runs from Ha Noi to Ho Chi Minh City. The total length of this railway is , with a gauge of metre gauge...

. The station is situated around 1 km from downtown. Due to the requirements of urban planning, the city government is considering the relocation to the city outskirt of this station in Binh Trieu (Binh Trieu Railway Station). Every year, 1–2 months before Tết

Tet

Tet can mean:*Tết or Tết Nguyên Đán, the Vietnamese new year**Tet Offensive, a military campaign that began in 1968*Têt in Roussillon, France*Equal temperament, abbreviated as 12-TET, 19-TET and so on...

, there are always thousands of people queuing here all day to buy tickets home as this is the only booking office of Vietnam Railway Station Corporation. Though electronic booking machines have been adopted, these queues continue due to the monopoly.

Despite the city being named Ho Chi Minh City after the war, the name of the station has remained the same as ever.