Guangzhou
Worth seeing in and around Guangzhou
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.
- 01CITIC Plaza
China International Trust and Investment Plaza is an 80-storey, 391 m office skyscraper in the Tianhe District of Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China. Its structural height includes two antenna-like spires on the top.
7.7 km · skyscraper in the Tianhe District of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China · Wikipedia - 02Guangzhou International Finance Center
Guangzhou International Finance Center or Guangzhou West Tower, is a 103-story, 438.6 m skyscraper at Zhujiang Avenue West in the Tianhe District of Guangzhou, Guangdong. One half of the Guangzhou Twin Towers, it is the 24th tallest building in the world, completed in 2010.
7 km · building in Guangzhou, China · Wikipedia - 03Huaisheng Mosque
The Huaisheng Mosque is the main mosque of Guangzhou, located in the Yuexiu District, in the Guangdong Province of China. Rebuilt many times over its history, some historical texts claim that it was first built in the 7th century, but modern scholarship places its foundation at a later period during the Tang or Song dynasties.
1 km · mosque in Guangdong · Wikipedia - 04CTF Finance Centre
The Guangzhou Chow Tai Fook Finance Centre, also called East Tower, is a 530-metre mixed-use supertall skyscraper in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, which was completed in October 2016. It is the tallest completed building in Guangzhou, the third-tallest in China, and the eighth-tallest in the world.
7.2 km · supertall skyscraper in Guangzhou, China · Wikipedia - 05Sun Yat-sen University
Sun Yat-sen University is a public university in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education and co-funded by the Ministry of Education, SASTIND, and Guangdong Provincial People's Government.
4.8 km · university in Guangdong, China · Wikipedia - 06Tianhe Stadium
Tianhe Stadium, officially Tianhe Sports Centre Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Tianhe District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It is currently used for football matches.
7.6 km · stadium · Wikipedia - 07Pearl River Tower
Pearl River Tower is a 71-story, 309.6 m, clean technology neofuturistic skyscraper at the junction of Jinsui Road/Zhujiang Avenue West, Tianhe, Guangzhou, China. The tower's architecture and engineering were performed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with Adrian D. Smith and Gordon Gill as architects.
7 km · tower block · Wikipedia - 08Leatop Plaza
Leatop Plaza is a 66-storey, 302.7 m late-modernist supertall skyscraper in Guangzhou, China. Leatop Plaza is placed on the site parallel to the East entrance at the central axis of Zhujiang New Town.
7.3 km · building · Wikipedia - 09Grand International Mansion
The Pinnacle is a 60-story, 360 m -tall skyscraper in the Tianhe District of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It is the fifth-tallest building in Guangzhou.
7.1 km · 360-meter skyscraper located in Guangdong · Wikipedia - 10Guangzhou Circle
Guangzhou Circle is a landmark building located in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China. It is the headquarters of the Hongda Xingye Group and the Guangdong Plastic Exchange, the world's largest trading centre for raw plastic material with more than €25 billion annual turnover in 2012.
7.2 km · building in Guangdong, China · Wikipedia
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Getting to Guangzhou
- Airports
- Guangzhou Baiyun (CAN), 31 km · Shenzhen Bao'an (SZX), 78 km · Hong Kong (HKG), 113 km
- Stations
- 1990 Guangzhou Baiyun airport collisions, 8.1 km · Guangzhou railway station, 3.9 km · Guangzhoudong Railway Station, 8.1 km · Xilang Station, 5.9 km · Peasant Movement Institute station, 2.5 km
- Shenzhen → Guangzhou105 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · ¥55–70
- Zhuhai (Jinwan) → Guangzhou112 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · ¥55–75
- Zhanjiang → Guangzhou362 km · quickest by road, 5h 52m · ¥165–220
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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 Guangzhou
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 Guangzhou. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Hong Kong International Airport, there are direct ferries to Guangzhou that allow you to bypass Hong Kong immigration.
- Get aroundFolding bikes are permitted on the subway (but not on buses) and can be carried in the trunk of a taxi at the driver's discretion, but non-folders are not permitted on any form of public transport other than the cross-river ferries.
- Get aroundBicycles are not permitted to cross the river via the Zhujiang Tunnel or Zhujiang suspension bridge, but are permitted to go on the public ferries for ¥1 (see below).
- Get aroundThe ferry is the cheapest way of crossing the Pearl River (Zhujiang).
- Get aroundFerries were very popular in the 1980s and early 90s, carrying tens of thousands of passengers across the river each day.
From Wikivoyage: Guangzhou, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Guangzhou
Guangzhou is 15 km from Nanhai, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Yuexiu Districtdistrict of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China2 km
- Haizhu Districtdistrict of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China2.6 km
- Liwan Districtdistrict of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China1.8 km
- Baiyun Districtdistrict of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China5.7 km