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Qingdao
City in Shandong, China

Qingdao

Qingdao, previously transliterated as Tsingtao, is a prefecture-level city in China's Shandong province.

Plan a trip to Qingdao→From Qingdao (Jiaozhou)

Lying across the Shandong Peninsula and looking out to the Yellow Sea, it borders the prefecture-level cities of Yantai to the northeast, Weifang to the west, and Rizhao to the southwest. The Jiaozhou Bay Bridge links Qingdao's main urban area with Huangdao district, straddling Jiaozhou Bay.

Do

Things to do

Qingdao has some wonderful beaches worthy of visiting. Unfortunately, litter is a problem at all of them, ranging from the occasional cigarette butt to having to wade through a flotsam of trash just to get into the ocean itself. Your experience will vary depending on the tides and the time of year you visit.

Eat

Where to eat

Head to Yunxiao Road west of Fuzhou South Road for a large selection of restaurants of all Chinese varieties ranging from the local Shandong style, to Cantonese and Sichuan. Yunxiao Road is recognized as Qingdao's restaurant street, and serves up a wide variety of mouth watering dishes. Minjiang Road, near Fushou South Road (bordering on Qingdao's restaurant district), has several outstanding restaurants.

  1. 01
    Sanheyuan
  2. 02
    Yunxiao Road

    Here you'll find lots of choices for seafood and other Chinese dishes.

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    Old Hong Kong Restaurant
  4. 04
    Bifeng Tang
  5. 05
    Tanyutou Hotpot Restaurant
How locals move

Getting around Qingdao the local way

  • Get inQingdao has international ferry connections.
  • Get inFrom Incheon, South Korea there are ferries three times a week by Weidong Ferries.

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

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