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 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.
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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.
- 01Yixing 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 - 02Wuxi 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
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Yixing Ceramics Museum
From Wikivoyage: Yixing, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01Longchi Mountain Scenic Area
- 02Yixing Bamboo Sea Scenic Area
From Wikivoyage: Yixing, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
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 → Yixing50 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · ¥24–32
- Nanjing → Yixing126 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · ¥55–75
- Hangzhou → Yixing123 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · ¥55–70
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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.
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Next door to Yixing
Yixing is 48 km from Changzhou, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.