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Wuhan 武汉Wǔhàn
Three towns at the meeting of the Han and Yangtze, and hot dry noodles to go
About Wuhan
Wuhan grew from three towns, Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang, that face one another where the Han River flows into the Yangtze. The rebuilt Yellow Crane Tower on Snake Hill looks across the Yangtze, Hankou keeps its old concession streets and the Hankow Customs House, and in 1911 an uprising in Wuchang set off the revolution that ended the Qing dynasty. East Lake, ringed by parks and Wuhan University, gives the city room to breathe.
What to eat in Wuhan
- Hot dry noodles (热干面)
- Doupi (豆皮)
Featured places in Wuhan
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Yellow Crane Tower 黄鹤楼
A tower rebuilt many times over, made immortal by a single Tang poem
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Hubei Provincial Museum 湖北省博物馆
Marquis Yi's ancient bronze bells, played live, and the sword of King Goujian
Listed sites in Wuhan
55 listed sites are in Wuhan. These are the 32 rated 5A or 4A; see all 55 in the Hubei list.
- East Lake, Wuhan 东湖 5A scenic area
A freshwater lake of about 33 sq km in Wuchang, among the largest urban lakes in China, whose scenic area is divided into six zones including Tingtao, Moshan and Luoyan. - Mulan Cultural and Ecological Tourist Area 木兰文化生态旅游区 5A scenic area · on the map
A national 5A area in northern Huangpi District made up of four parts tied to the legend of Mulan, which local tradition places here: Mulan Mountain, a long-standing religious site with an ancient building complex that is also part of a national geopark; Mulan Tianchi (Heavenly Lake), a forest canyon of waterfalls and pools; Mulan Grassland, a steppe-themed park; and Yunwu Mountain, known for its azaleas in spring. - Dayuwan Ancient Village 大余湾 4A scenic area · on the map
A hillside village at the foot of Mulan Mountain, founded in the early Ming dynasty by the Yu family from Wuyuan in Jiangxi, with dozens of Ming and Qing houses in Jiangxi style, horse-head gables and stone-paved lanes; it is a China Historic and Cultural Village. - Fengwa Ancient Village 凤娃古寨 4A scenic area · on the map
A cultural-tourism complex in Fenghuang town, Xinzhou District, billed as a cluster of Ming and Qing-style buildings, with antique and folk-custom displays, leisure facilities and local food. - Happy Valley Wuhan 武汉欢乐谷 4A scenic area
Happy Valley Wuhan is an amusement park run by the OCT group, the fifth in its Happy Valley chain, in the eastern suburbs near East Lake; it opened in April 2012. - Huabohui Flower Town 武汉花博汇 4A scenic area · on the map
A flower-themed leisure town in Caidian's Sino-French Eco-City, near Houguan Lake national wetland park, with a planned area of 5,300 mu (about 350 hectares). - Huaxiang Chagu Tea Valley 花乡茶谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A tea-plantation leisure area on Honggang Mountain in Caijiazha subdistrict, Huangpi, which was rated 4A in 2022. - Jinli Tusicheng Tujia Scenic Area 锦鲤土司城 4A scenic area · on the map
A leisure park themed on Tujia and Miao culture in the hills of northern Huangpi, built in the style of a tusi (hereditary chieftain) fortress town with stilt houses rather than as a historic site. - Jinlong Shuizhai Eco-Park 金龙水寨 4A scenic area · on the map
A lakeside leisure park beside Jinlong Lake in Caidian, planted with camellias, lotus, osmanthus and plum so that something is in flower in each season, and known for its lotus ponds, which can be toured by boat in summer. - Jiuzhen Mountain 九真山 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded range of nine linked peaks in Caidian whose main summit, at 276 m, is billed as the highest point on the Jianghan Plain; forest covers more than 90% of the scenic area. - Lianghu Manxiang Leisure Park 梁湖漫乡 4A scenic area · on the map
Lianghu Manxiang is a countryside leisure park in Wulijie, in the south-east of Wuhan's Jiangxia District, run as a large farm resort with guesthouses and meeting rooms, picking and fishing, farm-life activities and bonfire evenings. - Mulan Huaxiang Flower Village 木兰花乡 4A scenic area · on the map
A former old hamlet in Huangpi, renovated from the mid-2010s and opened as a scenic area in 2017, now a flower and night-tour destination with seasonal flower beds, an animal park, a tropical-plant garden, rides and a children's water park. 'Mulan Night City', a street built in Northern Wei style that opened in 2023, stages shows and light displays in the evening. - Mulan Qingliangzhai 木兰清凉寨 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain scenic area of about 10 sq km in the hills of northern Huangpi, known for autumn foliage (a red-maple festival has run since 2015) and as a summer refuge from the city heat. - Mulan Shengtian 木兰胜天 4A scenic area · on the map
A hill-ringed leisure area in Wangjiahe, Huangpi, developed from a former forest farm, with about 90% forest cover, streams, a waterfall and rock formations. - Mulan Water Town 木兰水镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A military-themed leisure park in Wangjiahe, Huangpi, laid out beside a lake and river junction with the look of a Jiangnan water town rather than any historic fabric. - Panlongcheng 盘龙城遗址 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The remains of a walled Shang-dynasty city of about 1500-1300 BCE on the north bank of the Yangtze, uncovered by a flood in 1954 and described by the Wuhan government as the highest-ranking and largest early Shang site known in the Yangtze valley. - Wuhan Botanical Garden 武汉植物园 4A scenic area
A research botanical garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, founded in 1956, whose Moshan campus of about 59 hectares lies on the shore of East Lake. - Wuhan Garden Expo Park 武汉园博园 4A scenic area · on the map
A public park of about 214 hectares built on a former landfill for the 10th China International Garden Expo in 2015 and kept as a city park afterwards, with its northern part in Dongxihu District and its southern part in Qiaokou District. - Wuhan Iron and Steel (WISCO) Cultural Tourism Zone 武钢文化旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
A tourism zone of about 6.1 square kilometres inside the working Wuhan Iron and Steel (WISCO) plant in Qingshan, which opened in February 2023. - Wuhan Museum 武汉博物馆 4A scenic area
The city's main local-history museum, in Hankou's Jianghan District; the present building opened in 2001 and the museum was named a first-grade national museum in 2008. - Wuhan Peasant Movement Institute 武汉农民运动讲习所旧址 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A late-Qing courtyard school of four brick-and-timber halls, opened in 1904 as a primary school, which housed the Kuomintang's Central Peasant Movement Training Institute in 1927, with Deng Yanda as director and Mao Zedong as deputy director. - Wuhan Planning Exhibition Hall 武汉规划展示馆 4A scenic area · on the map
Wuhan Planning Exhibition Hall occupies the east wing of the Citizens' Home civic complex in northern Jiang'an and explains the city's history, growth and development plans over three floors. - Wuhan Polar Ocean Resort 武汉极地海洋度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
An ocean-themed resort in Dongxihu District with aquarium displays, a polar-themed Ice Kingdom that uses animal models, and staged shows such as costumed mermaid performances and a penguin parade. - Wuhan Sports Center 武汉体育中心 4A scenic area
A sports complex in Zhuankou, in Wuhan's economic development zone, built in 2002 around a 54,000-seat stadium that staged matches at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup and has been home to Wuhan Three Towns football club. - Wuhan Wildlife Kingdom 武汉野生动物王国 4A scenic area · on the map
An animal-themed park on Wumei Mountain in Caidian, on a hill that was quarried until around 2000 and has since been replanted; it opened in December 2020. - Xinhai Revolution Museum (Wuchang Uprising Memorial) 辛亥革命博物院 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The Xinhai Revolution Museum is made up of two sites a short walk apart on the south side of Snake Hill, both about the Wuchang Uprising of October 1911. - Yaojiashan Red Village 姚家山 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain village on the Huangpi-Dawu border that served as the base of the New Fourth Army's Fifth Division, whose political and military organs were stationed there from the early 1940s until 1946 under Li Xiannian. - Yecun Valley 野村谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A family leisure valley in Wangjiahe, Huangpi, with rafting runs, a shallow stream with a stepped weir, and a paddling water park with water-bamboo beds and slides. - Yifu Museum of China University of Geosciences 中国地质大学逸夫博物馆 4A scenic area
A natural-science museum on the China University of Geosciences campus beside East Lake, holding about 40,000 geological specimens, several thousand of them rare. - Zhiyin Cultural Area (Guqin Terrace and Moon Lake) 知音文化旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
The Zhiyin Cultural Area is Wuhan's name for a group of sights in Hanyang built around the legend of Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi, in which a guqin player found a friend who truly understood his music (a 'zhiyin'). - Zhongshan Warship Museum 中山舰博物馆 4A scenic area
Zhongshan Warship Museum, in the Yangtze-side town of Jinkou, is built around the restored Zhongshan, a gunboat built in Japan in 1913 and renamed in 1925 after Sun Yat-sen. - Ziwei Urban Pastoral Park 武汉紫薇都市田园 4A scenic area · on the map
A countryside leisure park on Ziwei Ridge in Cangbu, Xinzhou District, opened in 2014 on former scrub slopes and known for plant weaving: sculptures and lettering made from living plants.
Getting to Wuhan
Train, flight and driving times from the cities most visitors come from, with stations, fares and how many run a day; each opens the full comparison.
- Yichang 宜昌 high-speed train 1 h 9 min, 80 a day, from ¥145
- Changsha 长沙 high-speed train 1 h 11 min, 155 a day, from ¥199
- Huangshan City 黄山市 high-speed train 3 h 31 min, 2 a day, from ¥249
- Nanjing 南京 high-speed train 2 h 27 min, 60 a day, from ¥213
- Zhengzhou 郑州 high-speed train 1 h 33 min, 126 a day, from ¥293
- Hangzhou 杭州 high-speed train 3 h 59 min, 28 a day, from ¥323; 5 nonstop flights a day, 1 h 45 min in the air
- Xi'an 西安 high-speed train 2 h 41 min, 39 a day, from ¥428; one nonstop flight a day, 1 h 45 min in the air
- Shanghai 上海 high-speed train 3 h 32 min, 45 a day, from ¥360; 15 nonstop flights a day, 1 h 55 min in the air
- Chongqing 重庆 high-speed train 3 h 53 min, 40 a day, from ¥419; 7 nonstop flights a day, 1 h 30 min in the air
- Xiamen 厦门 high-speed train 6 h 55 min, 9 a day, from ¥379; 8 nonstop flights a day, 1 h 45 min in the air
- Qingdao 青岛 high-speed train 5 h 31 min, 9 a day, from ¥662; 8 nonstop flights a day, 2 h in the air
- Guangzhou 广州 high-speed train 3 h 18 min, 97 a day, from ¥553; 11 nonstop flights a day, 2 h in the air
- Hong Kong 香港 high-speed train 4 h 12 min, 5 a day, from ¥768; one nonstop flight a day, 2 h 5 min in the air
- Tianjin 天津 high-speed train 5 h 20 min, 15 a day, from ¥620; 7 nonstop flights a day, 1 h 55 min in the air
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