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Fangchuan Scenic Area 防川Fángchuān
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Yanbian, Jilin
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Yanbian
- Region
- Jilin
- Type
- Nature
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Fangchuan Scenic Area
Fangchuan is a small village on the lower Tumen River at the eastern tip of Hunchun, close to where the borders of China, Russia and North Korea meet. From the viewing tower, the Longhu Pavilion, visitors can see the river, the Russia–North Korea railway bridge, the Russian settlement of Khasan and, across the river to the south-west, the North Korean city of Rason. The scenic area also holds the Tuzi marker, a granite boundary stone set up in 1886 and now a nationally protected monument, as well as a folk-culture area of the village's ethnic Korean community and a lotus lake.
How to get to Fangchuan Scenic Area
In Fangchuan village, Jingxin township, about 54 km south-south-east of Hunchun town centre in a straight line; a tourist bus line runs to Fangchuan from Hunchun's coach station and high-speed railway station.
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