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About Wuhan

Where the Han River pours into the Yangtze, three historic towns grew up facing each other across the water: Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang. Joined into one city in the twentieth century, they form Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province and one of the great inland hubs of central China, home to more than ten million people.

Wuhan's past runs deep. The Wuchang Uprising of 1911 sparked the revolution that ended China's last imperial dynasty, and Hankou's riverfront still shows the stone banks and customs house of its treaty-port years. Above the river, the rebuilt Yellow Crane Tower honours one of the most celebrated poems of the Tang dynasty, while the Hubei Provincial Museum guards bronze bells and a sword that have survived for well over two thousand years.

Today the city mixes riverside parks, university campuses and the vast East Lake with busy food streets. Breakfast is a serious matter here: start the day with a bowl of hot dry noodles, then cross the Yangtze River Bridge on foot. In March, cherry blossoms fill Wuhan University and Moshan.

Best seasonMarch to May and October to November; summers are famously hot and humid.

Ideal stayTwo to three days for the three historic towns, East Lake and the provincial museum.

ArrivingWuhan Tianhe International Airport serves the city, and Wuhan, Hankou and Wuchang stations link it to China's high-speed rail network.

12 Unforgettable Things to Do in Wuhan

Landmarks 3

Yellow Crane Tower

Crowning Snake Hill in Wuchang, this five-storey tower is a 1985 rebuild of a landmark that burned and rose again many times over...

Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge

Opened in 1957 as the first bridge to span the Yangtze, this double-deck crossing carries trains below and cars above between Snak...

Wuhan University

Set on Luojia Hill beside East Lake, Wuhan University is often called one of China's most beautiful campuses, with green-tiled bui...

Nature 1

Wuhan East Lake

Wuhan's great urban lake spreads across several scenic zones on the city's eastern side, with wooded hills, islands and long cause...

Museums 1

Hubei Provincial Museum

One of China's finest provincial museums, best known for treasures from the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng, including a huge set of br...

History 2

Wuchang Uprising Memorial Hall

Known locally as the Red Building, this brick hall became the military government headquarters after the Wuchang Uprising of Octob...

Guqin Terrace

A small garden pavilion beside Moon Lake in Hanyang marks the legendary spot where the musician Yu Boya played the zither for his...

Temples and Shrines 1

Guiyuan Temple

This Buddhist temple in Hanyang dates from the early Qing dynasty and is famous for its Hall of Five Hundred Arhats, where rows of...

Food and Drink 1

Hubu Alley

A short, busy lane in Wuchang lined with stalls selling Wuhan's breakfast favourites from early morning. Try reganmian, the city's...

Shopping 1

Jianghan Road Pedestrian Street

Hankou's main shopping street runs inland from the riverfront past early twentieth-century banks and trading houses in European st...

Neighborhoods 2

Hankou Bund

Along Yanjiang Avenue in Hankou, a row of stately buildings from the former foreign concessions faces the Yangtze, among them the...

Tanhualin

Tanhualin is a quiet old street in Wuchang where churches, missionary schools and early twentieth-century houses survive under the...

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