Qianmen

A look around

What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.

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Where it sits

The circle is Qianmen and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.

How far is everything?

From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.

• Tiananmen Square10 min walk836 m
• The Forbidden City24 min walk2.0 km
• Jingshan Park10 min taxi3.4 km
• The Houhai lakes & hutongs14 min taxi4.8 km
• The Lama Temple17 min taxi5.8 km
• The 798 Art District38 min taxi12.8 km
• The Summer Palace46 min taxi15.4 km
• The Great Wall184 min taxi61.2 km

On your doorstep

What you’re living next to if you stay here.

• 3.The Temple of Heaven — A masterpiece of Ming design — the round, triple-eaved Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests rising from a marble terrace, where emperors prayed for the year's crops, set in a huge park where locals do tai chi, dance and play music at dawn. Serene and beautiful; go early to see the park come alive around the temple.
• 7.Peking duck — The city's signature dish and a genuine bucket-list meal — a whole duck roasted to lacquered, crackling perfection and carved at the table, wrapped in thin pancakes with spring onion, cucumber and sweet bean sauce. Do it properly at a famous duck house (Siji Minfu, Quanjude); rich, ceremonial and unforgettable.
• 15.Qianmen & Dashilan — The restored old commercial street running south from Tiananmen — a pedestrian parade of century-old shopfronts, a clanging replica tram, traditional medicine and silk shops, and the warren of the Dashilan lanes off it. Touristy but atmospheric; wander down from the square for old-Beijing storefronts and street snacks.