Tattoo shops in Hanoi

A tattoo is a permanent decision made in a room you'll spend hours in, so the studio matters as much as the artist. Hanoi, Hanoi has 10 tattoo shops mapped right now. All 10 are mapped as tattoo studios proper, and each one is worth a portfolio browse before you commit — style varies more between shops than towns.

This guide covers every tattoo shop we could verify in and around Hanoi (within about 30 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Cửa Hàng Xăm MD and wintattoo.vn, plus Youngbirds-tattoo. If a studio's missing from Hanoi's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Hanoi tattoo lineup

10 mapped within about 30 km:

What the map tells us about tattoo shops in Hanoi

4 of the 10 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — tattoo studios often work by appointment, so posted hours can be more of a guideline than a promise.

The Hanoi tattoo shop tour

Making a day of it in Hanoi? Work this order: Cửa Hàng Xăm MD on Số 10 Ngõ 738 Đường Láng, wintattoo.vn on nhà 37 Ngõ 44 Triều Khúc, Youngbirds-tattoo on số nhà 12 823 hồng haf, Gapi Tattoo on Phòng B54, Tập thể số 3 Vọng Đức, Tam Hoàng on Phố Văn Hội, Inkonic, Maori Tattoo on 46, and 3 INK on 29 Phố Hàng Giầy. That's the tattoo shop tour in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 2 more are listed below.

Tattoo tips for Hanoi

A few things worth knowing before you work through Hanoi's tattoo shops:

• Trust the artist's placement advice at Cửa Hàng Xăm MD. They've seen thousands of bodies. If they say the design won't age well there, listen.
• Don't drink the night before at wintattoo.vn. Alcohol thins the blood and makes you bleed more, which pushes ink out. Arrive sober and hydrated.
• Match the artist to the style. Fine line, blackwork, traditional, realism — artists specialise. The best studio in town is the wrong one if the style's off.
• Sun is the enemy of fresh ink. UV fades tattoos fast, especially new ones. Once healed, sunscreen on the tattoo becomes a lifelong habit.

Good to know

We searched about 30 km around Hanoi — 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 tattoo shop in Hanoi can take a while to appear. The 10 above are only as current as the community map. A tattoo shop that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't rate studios or artists, and we never list prices — those are between you and the shop. What we list is the where and the how-to-find, from places real mappers have verified.

If you run one of the 10 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.