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Yinshan Pagoda Forest 银山塔林Yínshān Tǎlín
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Beijing, Beijing
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Beijing
- Region
- Beijing
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Yinshan Pagoda Forest
A group of eighteen Buddhist pagodas in the hills of Yanshou town, the tomb pagodas of monks from temples that flourished below the dark cliffs of 'Iron Wall, Silver Mountain' from the Jin dynasty onwards. Five Jin brick pagodas with dense eaves stand together on the site of Fahua Temple, which Japanese troops destroyed in 1941, with a Yuan pagoda nearby and smaller Yuan and Ming stupas scattered on the slopes.
How to get to Yinshan Pagoda Forest
In Yanshou town in northern Changping District, about 45 km north of central Beijing and 7 km beyond the Ming Tombs, roughly an hour by road.
Nearby
- Ming Tombs 明十三陵 under 10 km
Stone guardians on the Sacred Way and an emperor's underground palace to walk through - Great Wall at Mutianyu 慕田峪长城 20 km
Restored Ming watchtowers riding a wooded ridge, with a toboggan run back down - Badaling Great Wall 八达岭长城 30 km
Ming ramparts climbing both ways from a fortified pass, a short fast train from Beijing - Old Summer Palace 圆明园 40 km
Broken marble arches of Qing European-style palaces beside lakes of summer lotus - Summer Palace 颐和园 40 km
An imperial lakeside garden of painted corridors, temple-topped hills and a marble boat
Also within 20 km: Huanghuacheng Lakeside Great Wall 黄花城水长城 (10 km), Leduogang Holiday Plaza 乐多港假日广场 (20 km).
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