A small but real fragment of the early-20th-century French concession survives in the streets immediately southeast of the old railway station — a long brick block of the original station building, a cluster of arcaded shop-houses, and the former Banque de l'Indochine office, all dating to around 1910. The buildings are slowly being restored as cafés, galleries, and a small museum of the Kunming–Haiphong railway.
The quarter is not visitor-ready in the way of, say, Shanghai's Bund — there are no signs, no walking trails, and the streets are still mostly used by Kunmingers — but for anyone interested in the city's brief life as a treaty port, it is the most evocative neighbourhood. Best on a weekend morning, when the small craft markets fill the lane outside the old station.