Record stores in Ho Chi Minh City

Vinyl hunting in Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast? There are 4 record shops mapped here. That's 4 record shops mapped around Ho Chi Minh City. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. The new-arrivals bin is always the first stop — that's where the good stuff lands before anyone else sees it.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Ho Chi Minh City (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Hãng Đĩa Thời Đại and Yẽu Đì, plus Music World Piano. If a record shop's missing from Ho Chi Minh City's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Ho Chi Minh City record lineup

4 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Ho Chi Minh City

2 of the 4 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

2 have websites listed. Worth a look for new-arrival posts and want-list services.

Most of the record stores in Ho Chi Minh City list a phone number. Useful for asking what's just come into the used bins.

The Ho Chi Minh City record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: Hãng Đĩa Thời Đại on 6 Nguyễn Văn Nguyễn, Yẽu Đì on 7-9 Hẻm 340C Hoàng Văn Thụ, Music World Piano, and Nhạc cụ Thanh Huy on 14 Đường Đồng Khởi. That's 4 stops on the Ho Chi Minh City record crawl.

Record digging tips for Ho Chi Minh City

How the regulars work Ho Chi Minh City's bins:

• Ask about want-list services at Hãng Đĩa Thời Đại. Good shops will keep an eye out for your grails. It takes patience, but the call when it lands is worth it.
• Sleeves matter for value at Yẽu Đì. Original inner sleeves, inserts, posters — completeness counts. A bare record in a generic sleeve is worth less.
• The dollar bin is honest work. Nobody's getting rich off the dollar bin, but the joy-per-dollar ratio is unbeatable. Flip through all of it.
• Visit on restock days. Shops process collections on rhythms. Ask when new used stock hits the floor and time your visits.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Ho Chi Minh City — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Ho Chi Minh City can take a while to appear. The 4 above are only as current as the community map. A record store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 4 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.