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Fuzhou
Capital of Fujian, China

Fuzhou

Fuzhou is the capital of Fujian, China, lying between the Min River estuary to the south and the city of Ningde to the north.

Plan a trip to Fuzhou→From Fuzhou (Changle)

Together, Fuzhou and Ningde make up the Mindong linguistic and cultural region.

Get in

Getting to Fuzhou

  1. 01
    Fuzhou Changle International Airport
  2. 02
    Fuzhou

    Direct overnight buses from Shanghai (12 hr, ¥240), Hong Kong, Shenzhen (12 hr, ¥280) or Guangzhou (12 hr, ¥258), with sleeping bunks.

  3. 03
    Fuzhou Railway Station
  4. 04
    Fuzhou South Railway Station
See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Three Lanes and Seven Alleys

    This historic district in the heart of the city is one of the largest historic downtown areas in China, boasting about 268 ancient residences dating from Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911).

  2. 02
    Zhongzhou Island
  3. 03
    Yantai Mountain
  4. 04
    Shangxiahang
  5. 05
    Fuzhou Confucius Temple
  6. 06
    Hualin Temple
Do

Things to do

Riley's Club, Yangqiao Road. If pool is your game, you would be hard pushed to find better tables anywhere in China than here. Cheap drinks and open very late too. Fuzhou Fighting Ferrets Football Club. A motley assortment of nationalities who play at Jinshan Wentizhongxin every Sunday at 09:15. Like football, only funnier! Paintball (In Jinjishan Gongyuan, right on top of the hill).

  1. 01
    Wu Qingyuan Game of Go Club
Eat

Where to eat

Local specialties include: Yu Wan (鱼丸). Fish balls, a Fuzhou delicacy, minced beef and pork inside a fishy flour ball of dough in a thin broth, excellent. Also just called 肉丸 (rou wan) but check they are fish nonetheless. Boiled shark (鯊魚滑). A Geng (thick soup) using shark's meat, it won't have a strong smell Rouyan (肉燕). A boiled pork dumpling using a local special skin called Yanpi Guo Bien Hu (锅边糊).

  1. 01
    Daming Food Street
How locals move

Getting around Fuzhou the local way

  • Get inShared taxis also go from there, at around ¥25 a person.
  • Go nextCute old ferry takes you there from the mainland for ¥2.

From Wikivoyage: Fuzhou, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Dietmar Rabich (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.