Chengdu
Worth seeing in and around Chengdu
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Chengdu
- Airports
- Chengdu Shuangliu (CTU), 17 km · Chengdu Tianfu (TFU), 53 km · Chongqing Jiangbei (CKG), 270 km
- Stations
- Chengdu railway station, 3.6 km · Chengdu East railway station, 8 km · Chengdu South railway station, 6.4 km · Sichuan Gymnasium Station, 3.5 km · Chengdu University of TCM & Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital Station, 2.7 km
- Chengdu (Jianyang) → Chengdu56 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · ¥26–35
- Chongqing → Chengdu269 km · quickest by road, 4h 18m · ¥115–155
- Guiyang (Nanming) → Chengdu523 km · quickest by air, 4h 43m · ¥510–790
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Chengdu
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Chengdu. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextA day trip to this ancient man-made wonder should be about ¥100-150.
- Go nextHuang Long Xi (黄龙溪, "Yellow Dragon Creek ancient town") is worth a day trip.
- Go nextBuses from Luodai bus station or minivans (from eastern city gate) take you there or in about 20 minutes (¥2–10).
- Go nextYou can also trek out to the Tibetan areas of Sichuan.
- Go nextAs a large city, it has plenty to do and could serve as a day or multi-day trip.
From Wikivoyage: Chengdu, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Chengdu
Chengdu is 60 km from Deyang, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Jinjiang Districtdistrict of Sichuan Province, China1.6 km
- Wuhou Districtdistrict of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China3.5 km
- Jinniu Districtdistrict of Sichuan Province, China3.5 km
- Chenghua Districtdistrict of Sichuan Province, China3.2 km
- Qingyang Districtdistrict of Sichuan Province, China1.3 km