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County-level city in Jiangsu, China

Yixing

Yixing is a county-level city administered under the prefecture-level city of Wuxi in southern Jiangsu province, China, and is part of the Yangtze River Delta.

Yixing
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The place

Yixing is a county-level city administered under the prefecture-level city of Wuxi in southern Jiangsu province, China, and is part of the Yangtze River Delta. The city is known for its traditional Yixing clay ware tea pots. It is a pene-exclave with Changzhou. The city spans an area of 1,996.6 square kilometres (770.9 mi2), and has a registered hukou population of about 1,075,800 as of 2020.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Yixing

2 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.

  1. 01
    Yixing Pumped Storage Power Station

    The Yixing Pumped Storage Power Station is a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station located Yixing city of Jiangsu Province, China. Construction on the power station began in 2003 and the first unit was commissioned in 2007, the last in 2008.

    7.4 km · building in Yixing Pumped Storage Power Station, China · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts & Technology

    Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology is a public full-time general college located in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China.

    2.5 km · public vocational college · Wikipedia

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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Yixing Ceramics Museum

From Wikivoyage: Yixing, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Longchi Mountain Scenic Area
  2. 02
    Yixing Bamboo Sea Scenic Area

From Wikivoyage: Yixing, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Yixing

Airports
Sunan Shuofang (WUX), 60 km · Nanjing Lukou (NKG), 99 km · Hangzhou Xiaoshan (HGH), 138 km
Stations
Yixing Railway Station, 5.1 km
  • Wuxi → Yixing
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · ¥24–32
  • Nanjing → Yixing
    126 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · ¥55–75
  • Hangzhou → Yixing
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · ¥55–70
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Yixing

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 Yixing. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    575 km
  2. 02
    Kinmen (Quemoy)TW

    10 ways of moving, 12 sources

    781 km
  3. 03
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    887 km
  4. 04
    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    903 km
  5. 05
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    926 km

If you know how people move in Yixing – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Yixing

Yixing is 48 km from Changzhou, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.