It serves the border town of Lào Cai, in Lào Cai Province.

[1] Several passenger trains a day run between Hanoi and Lao Cai.

Lao Cai Station is the last station of the Hanoi–Lao Cai railway, the Vietnamese section of the meter-gauge Kunming–Hai Phong Railway.

North of Lao Cai Station, the railway continues, crossing the Nanxi River into China, but it carries only freight trains, and no passenger service.

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