Jincheng and Changzhi Travel Guide

Basic information Telephone area code: Changzhi 0355, Jincheng 0356 Travel complaint: 0355-2023856 Medical treatment Jincheng and Changzhi basic information Telephone area code: Changzhi 0355, Jincheng 0356 Travel complaint: 0355-2023856 Jincheng People’s Hospital Address: No. 456 Wenchang East Street, Jincheng District […]

Basic information

Telephone area code: Changzhi 0355, Jincheng 0356
Travel complaint: 0355-2023856

Medical treatment

Jincheng and Changzhi
basic information
Telephone area code: Changzhi 0355, Jincheng 0356
Travel complaint: 0355-2023856

Jincheng People’s Hospital
Address: No. 456 Wenchang East Street, Jincheng District
Phone: 0356-2024091
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Jincheng Second People’s Hospital
Address: Xinshi West Street, Jincheng District
Phone: 0356-3035937
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Changzhi People’s Hospital
Address: No. 105, North Street, Changzhi City
Phone: 0355-2024990
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Destination overview

Destination sketch

It is not a common tourist destination, but there are a few noteworthy destinations within Jincheng prefecture, outside the city. Like most Chinese cities its size English is not generally spoken, even in places the Traveler who speak standard with locals and restaurants. In addition, most locals speak a local dialect or speak Chinese with a strong local accent. Travelers who speak standard Chinese will discover occasional difficulties, but should generally be able to communicate with locals most of the Time. Jincheng is similar to other small cities in China.

Language help

Most of local people can not speak English.

Best travel season

The annual average temperature in southeastern Shanxi is 12-13.7 °C. Summer is the best time to travel to southeastern Shanxi.

Consumption level

The consumption levels of Changzhi City and Jincheng City are medium, and the price of food and beverage consumption is not high. The prices of general hotel chains and hotels are between 100-200 yuan. The main expenses of travel are concentrated on the attractions tickets and accommodation expenses.

Practical information

Jincheng Tourism and Cultural Relics Bureau
Address: 4th Floor, Tourism and Cultural Relics Bureau, East Section of Hongxing Street, Jincheng City
Phone: 0356-2023856

Changzhi Tourism Bureau
Address: Weipeng Building, Dongda Street www.czwwly.gov.cn

Jincheng Post Office
Address: No. 1782 Zezhou Road
Phone: 0356-2033700

Jincheng City Post Office
Address: No. 68, East Street, Jincheng City
Words: 0356-3043667

Hero Road Post Office
Address: No. 383, Heroes Middle Road, Changzhi City
Phone: 0355-2042897

Intercity traffic

Aircraft

Changzhi Wangcun Airport, CIH
Address: 7.5 kilometers north of Changzhi City
Phone: 0355-2176469
Arriving and leaving the airport
Changzhi Wangcun Airport has convenient transportation and can take the airport bus to and from the city conveniently.
airport bus
Ticket price: 3-5 yuan
Business hours: 05:50-19:00

Train

Jincheng Railway Station
Address: Yingbin Street, southwest of Jincheng District
Phone: 0356-2235162

Gaoping Railway Station
Address: Xinjian Road, Gaoping City
Phone: 0356-2237272

Changzhi Railway Station
Changzhi Railway Station has trains to Beijing, Xi’an, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Chengdu, Datong and Linyi.
Address: Intersection of Zhanqian Road and Jiefang West Street
Tel: 0355-5826922, 5826012

Long-distance bus

Jincheng

Jincheng Coach Station
Address: 1006 Ruifeng Road, Jincheng City
Tel: 0356-2022726, 2023618, 20356134

Jincheng City Bus Station
Phone: 0356-2023183

Lingchuan Bus Station
Address: Chong’an West Street, Lingchuan County
Phone: 0356-6202021

Yangcheng Bus Station
Address: No. 76, South Ring West Street, Yangcheng County
Phone: 0356-4223569

Gaoping Bus Station
Address: Changping East Street, Gaoping County
Tel: 0356-5244523,5244522

Changzhi City

Changzhi Passenger Transport Center
Address: No. 347, Fuhou West Street, Changzhi City
Phone: 0355-6063886

Traffic in the city

Bus

There are many bus lines in Jincheng City. You must ask the station before you get on the bus to avoid taking a bicycle. There are unmanned ticket buses such as 2, 3, 4, 5, 30, 31, and 33 in the city. The fare is 1 yuan, and the number of passenger cars in the suburbs is 2-4 yuan. The bus fare in Changzhi City is generally 1 yuan.

Taxi

Jincheng taxis start at 5 yuan during the day, 1.2 yuan / km after 2 kilometers, and 6 yuan at night. Taxi in the city usually costs less than 10 yuan. The taxi fare in Changzhi City is 5 yuan, 1.2 yuan / km after 2 kilometers.

Attractions

Jin Jincheng

House of the Huangcheng Chancellor

House of the Huangcheng Chancellor in Jincheng of Shanxi Province is the former residence of Chen Tingjing. It is a large complex built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368 – 1911). Chen Tingjing was the Grand Secretary of Pavilion of Literary Profundity of the Qing The Emperor Kangxi had stayed at the house twice, so the title ‘Huangcheng’ (Imperial City) is given to this chancellor’s mansion.

Covering an area of 43,000 square yards (36,000 square meters), House of the Huangcheng Chancellor is a castle-like structure hugging the mountain. It is divided into an Inner City and an Outer City with 16 courtyards and 640 rooms, showing visitors the once Prosperous scholarly Chen family, a large clan that had producers for the imperial court for generations.
Address: Huangcheng Village, Beiliu Town, Yangcheng County, Jincheng City
Arrival mode: Jincheng bus station to the Imperial City line car, 6:20-18:20 departure, 20 minutes a class, 1 hour journey, the fare 12 yuan; take the Jincheng to Yangcheng long-distance bus left in the north, Then take the van, 6 kilometers to the Imperial City, 3 yuan / person
Opening hours: 8:00-17:00
Tickets: 120 yuan in the peak season, 80 yuan in the off-season
Phone: 0356-4858206
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Guoyu Ancient Castle

It is Situated in Guoyu village of Beiliu town in Yangcheng county, the Guoyu Ancient Castle is a castle built at the foot of Taihang Mountain early Tang Dynasty. The castle near the mountain and by the water has magnificent and spectacular walls and visible battlements on the Top of the castle wall. In the castle, there are high buildings, strict ancient temples, luxurious residence for officials and elegant folk houses, and it is an ancient building with the unique characteristics of Chinese villages. It is a typical castle-like village Which covers an area of ​​179,000 m2 has 1100 rooms and 40 courtyards of existing Ming folk houses, including old lion courtyards, small lion courtyards, 12 Wang’s houses, 13 Wang’s courtyards, etc. The existing ancient castle has the wall of 12m high, 5m Wide and 1400m long, as well as complete gate tower, battlement, gate and water gate. Three layers of 628 foxholes having the functions of residence and defense were excavated on the castle wall The ancient paths in the castle were paved with stone bars, and the winding paths lead to quite places. The Ming fold houses as high as two-floor buildings are erecting on both sides of the paths.
Address: Guotun Village, Beiliu Town, Yangcheng County
Arrival method: There is a shuttle bus to the Imperial City in the provincial bus station.
Opening hours: 7:00-19:00

Qinshui Liu’s Folk House

The Liu’s Folk House located in Xiwenxing Village at 25km southwest from Qinshui County is the mansion of the Liu Zong-yuan’s (a famous writer of the Tang Dynasty) offspring of the same clan. It has 8 complete quadrangular courtyards since the Ming Dynasty, covering the floor area of more than 20000m2, and it is a typical ancient building of Ming and Qing castle type high-rise house. The higher design level of building, exquisite layout and structure, particular technical design and deep cultural art are really rare in the ancient folk houses of China.
Address: Xiwenxing Village, Tuwo Township, 25 km southwest of Lishui County
Arrival method: The shuttle bus to Tuwo will arrive in about 1 hour, and the fare is 8 yuan.
Opening hours: open all day
Tickets: 40 yuan
Phone: 0356-7050398

Diji City

Diji City, located on a hillside one li from Runcheng Town 13 km east of the Yangcheng County, is bordered by villages and small towns to the south, Qin River to the north, surrounded by water on three sides, and presents a peninsula shape. When you look out at the city, the rock-solid pillars stand firm in mid-stream, so it was given the name of Diji City. When the city was found is unknown, but it is learned from the stone tablet of “A View of Mountain City” in the 11th year of Ming Emperor Chongzhen (1638) that it should be found before Late-Ming Dynasty. The city is in an oval shape, built by bricks, covering an area of about sixty thousand square meters. The front door is in the south, and city walls arising from the ground are about 10 m high. The city wall by the river was built from the riverside, about more than 20 m high, on which battlement, artillery battery, etc. were provided for guarding against foreign enemies, and have been destroyed, leaving nothing at all. “Diji City” was written on the front door lintel, and it was the access for residents in the city; stone stairs were provided along the city wall to the north of the city, along which one can travel down in a boat to the water gate. Roads in the city were planned, a road around the city was built, all the others were residential roadways, and various facilities were all complete. Once people encountered the chaos of war in the ancient time, the city gate was closed to be self-contained and unassailable.
Address: Runcheng Town, Yangcheng County
Arrival methode: Take the long-distance bus from Jincheng to Yangcheng and get off at Runcheng, walk to reach
Opening hours: 8:00-17:00

Jade Emperor Temple

A Taoist site famous for the twenty-eight tutelary gods of the twenty-eight constellations in Taoism.
Address: North Ganggang, Fucheng Village, Jincun Town, Zezhou County, Jincheng City
Opening hours: 9:00-18:00
Tickets: 10 yuan

Sheepshead Hill Grottoes

Sheepshead Hill Grottoes, located at the border of Gaoping, Changzi and Changzhi Counties of Shanxi Province, was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the temple was abandoned in the end of the Sui Dynasty, rebuilt in the second year (691) of Tenju of Empress Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty, and changed in the horizontal tablet to Qinghua. The Qinghua Temple is not here anymore, there is still three Buddha statues, one tablet of the Ming Dynasty and the palace site left. There are two stone carving square towers at the top of athe mountain, there is a stone carving bending sheep niche for a statue of the Buddha at the side of the tower, with distinct head and tail, it was given the name Sheepshead Hill Temple for the sheepshead shape of this hill, called Qinghua Temple. The Sheepshead Hill has bulged peak on the front side, left and right mountain ranges stretching forward like dustpan palms, with statues carved from stones distributed therein. The statues carved from stones and stone pagodas in the Sheepshead Hill are the essences in the historical relics of Sheepshead Hill. Some of them are distributed at the top of the hill, some at the half way up the hill, some are grottoes, some are niches, the original size and order cannot be verified, and the current situation may be divided into nine regions. There are 22 large grotto niches, more than 80 small niches for statues of the Buddha, and most of the grotto holes are of square planes. There is also one Thousand-buddha Tablet, and all of them are remains of the Wei to Tang Dynasties. There are six carved stone pagodas made in the Tang Dynasty at the top and half way up the hill, at heights varying from 4 to 6 m, there are two kinds, i.e. plane and square-round, the highest one has seven storeys of a dense eaves type, the lowest one has two storeys of a pavilion type, having simple and unsophisticated structure characteristic, concise technique, which are rare in other locations.
Address: Yandi Cultural Scenic Area, Yangtou Mountain, Shennong Town, Gaoping City
Arrival method: From the Societe Temple, Gaoping, Changzhi can be chartered to

Wang Mang Ridge Scenery Tourist Area

Wang Mang Ridge Scenery Tourist Area, consisting of more than 50 peaks strewn at random discretion, is a typical representative of the Mount Taihang sceneries. According to legend, Wang Mang of the Western Han Dynasty run after Liu Xiu to this place to pitch a camp, for which it was given the name. Geological wonders, cool and refreshing sacred ground, summer resort, ecological vegetation, roadbuilding spirit, Taihang folk custom and slabstone culture are the seven major characteristics of the Wang Mang Ridge Scenic Area. High and steep peaks and cliffs, sea of clouds, tiptop sunrise, light of Buddha all year round, sea of forests, whistling of the wind in the pines, hanging wall avenue, high gorge and flat lake, and soft rime with hung ice are called the eight sculptures of the Wang Mang Ridge. In addition, there is also the birthland of I-go worldwide – Pieces Mountain; the roadbuilding spirit of the Foolish Old Man in the contemporary era – Xiya Gully, etc., it is a comprehensive scenic area with natural, ecological, geological, climate, humanity, historical legend and folk culture fused together, with the combination of green trip and red spirit. The most charming, shocking and attractive landscapes in the Wang Mang Ridge Scenic Area are sunrise, sea of clouds, all sorts of flowers, stone forest and strangely-shaped pines. All the four seasons are sceneries here, there are plays “every day”, which are infinite in variety. Only in the Wang Mang Ridge, you can feel the atmosphere and magnificence of Mount Taihang and feel like flying over the peaks when you ascend a height and look out in a sunny day; upon climbing a hill in thin fog and fine rain, strangely-shaped peaks are indistinct, the woodland is misty, everywhere is covered with a layer of mystery, place oneself among them, you will feel it quiet and carefree.
Address: Wangjingling Scenic Spot, Gujiao Township, Lingchuan County, Jincheng City
Opening hours: 8:00-18:00
Tickets: 70 yuan
Phone: 0356-6878696

Mount Li Scenic Spot

Mount Li which is subordinated to Zhongtiao Mountains is situated at the junction of northeast of Yuanqu County with Qinshui and Yangcheng counties in Shanxi Province. The Forestry Department of Shanxi Province organized relevant experts to go to Lishan for comprehensive survey in October 1983 and May 1984 successively, and it was determined to be the only virgin forest of plaque deciduous broad-leaf forest in the middle reaches of the Yellow River. In 1988, the State Council approved to establish the national natural preserve of Mount Li here. The preserve covering the total area of 23,000 hectares has fertile soil, moist air, abundant rainful and vigorous plants with the coverage of 90% and above. Mount Li integrates the magnificence of Mount Tai, the steepness of Mount Hua, the elegance of Mount Huang and the beauty of Mount Lu. The Emperor Shun’s Lawn at the elevation of 2358m is the second peak in Shanxi, and it is said that the subalpine meadow of more than 5000 mu was the place where Emperor Shun had ploughed. It has extremely charming scenery owing to the beautiful mountains, circling mountains and rivers, multiple waterfalls, widespread gorges as well as the natural landscapes of peculiar stones and trees. It is one of the Top 10 tourist attractions in Shanxi province and an important part of Zhongtiao Mountain Forest Park as well.
Address: Lishan Town, Yuanqu County, Shanxi Province
Arrival mode: The bus station in Yuanqu County, there is a car at 7:30 every day to reach the scenic spot

Changzhi city

Shangdang Gate

Shangdang Gate is in the southeast of city proper, being the office gate of the ancient Shangdang Shire. The present gate tower was rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty. In the west and east sides of the gate stand the bell tower and the drum tower. Nowadays, it is seen as a representative building of the city.
Address: North End of Fupo Street, West Street, Changzhi City
Arrival method: Bus 5, 6, 11, 14, 302, 307 Road Changsheng Station can be reached by car

Taihang Mountain Gorges

Taihang Mountain Gorges are located in the southeast of Huguan County in Shanxi Province. Covering an area of 36 square miles, almost seventy five percent of the land is forest and grassland. It is a striking land dotted by a world of caves, forest of stones, garden of various plants and a fairyland of animals. This unique landscape with abundant biological resources makes it a wonder in northern China. There are over 400 natural landscapes and 44 tourist attractions.

The whole landscape is a magnificent scroll painting mainly composed of Wuzhi Gorge, Wangmang Gorge, Longquan Gorge and Zituan Cave. Upon entering this long picture, you will see the ever-changing rocks, steep cliffs, silvery waterfalls, deep pools, fascinating caves, imposing temples and impressive legends. You will hear the thunderous fall of waterfalls, cheerful babbling of creeks and melodious songs of birds.
Address: Qiaoshang Township, Huguan County, Changzhi City
Arrival method: Bus No. 101 in front of Changzhi Passenger Transport Center to Huguan County, starting from 7:00-17:30 every day. After arriving at Huguan County, you can take a taxi to the Grand Canyon. Opening hours: 7:00-19:00
Tickets: 150 yuan (including the Taihang Mountain Canyon Scenic Area Baquan Gorge, Hongdou Gorge, Qinglong Gorge, Black Dragon Pool, Zi Tuanshan and other scenic spots, valid within 48 hours, including sightseeing bus)
Phone: 0355-8771330

Food

Gao Ping Tofu
Yangcheng meat can
Burning green onions
Fried jelly

Accommodation

There are many choice fro accommodation for both cities.

Shopping

Hua Gu (a kind of Chinese mushroom) and monkey-head mushroom of Qinshui County, pears, persimmons, and hawthorn fruit.

Shangdang preserved donkey meat, Codonopsis pilosula (panax ginseng)

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