Tianshui
Tianshui is a prefecture-level city in Gansu province, China, and is the province's second-largest city.
Tianshui is a prefecture-level city in Gansu province, China, and is the province's second-largest city. Located in the southeast of the province, the city strides along the upper reaches of the Wei River and at the boundary of the Loess Plateau and the Qinling Mountains. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,984,659 inhabitants, of which 1,212,791 lived in the built-up area made of the 2 urban districts of Qinzhou and Maiji. The city and its surroundings have played an important role in the early history of China, as still visible in the form of historic sites such as the Maijishan Grottoes.
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Worth seeing in and around Tianshui
One place 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.
- 01Houjie Mosque
The Houjie Mosque or Black Street Mosque is a mosque in Qinzhou District, Tianshui City, Gansu, China. In 2006 the mosque was listed as a Chinese major cultural heritage site.
900 m · mosque in Gansu · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Tianshui City Museum
- 02Tianshui Industry Museum
- 03Hushi Ancient Residence Construction
It was built during the Jiajing era of the Ming Dynasty by Hu Laijin, a scholar who passed the imperial examination.
- 04Taizi
Mosque located in Da Zhong Zhong Lu, with Halal food available nearby.
- 05Fuxi Temple
Ancient Taoist temple dedicated to the inventor of the trigram and a number of other mathematical systems, games, and tricks.
- 06Yuquan Temple
Ancient Taoist temple overlooking Tianshui, dating from the Yuan dynasty.
From Wikivoyage: Tianshui, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01Maijishan Grottoes
Maijishan Grottoes is one of the four major grottoes in China.
- 02Maijishan Ski Resort
- 03Tianshui Qing Mountain Grass Skiing
- 04Tianshui Folk Culture Village
From Wikivoyage: Tianshui, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Where to eat
- 01Tianshui Traditional Noodles
- 02Tianshui Snack Street
- 03Wangfu Restaurant
From Wikivoyage: Tianshui, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Tianshui
- Airports
- Xi'an Xianyang (XIY), 279 km · Lanzhou Zhongchuan (LHW), 287 km
- Xi'an → Tianshui294 km · quickest by road, 4h 50m · ¥130–175
- Lanzhou (Yongdeng) → Tianshui328 km · quickest by road, 5h 52m · ¥160–215
- Haidong (Huzhu Tu Autonomous County) → Tianshui407 km · quickest by road, 7h 51m · ¥205–275
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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 Tianshui
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 Tianshui. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Tianshui
- Qinzhou Districtdistrict of China500 m
- Yuquantown in Qinzhou District, Gansu, China400 m