The Yuzhong Peninsula in Half a Day
Choose one downhill half of the Yuzhong Peninsula: Eling and Liziba, or Shibati and Huguang Guild Hall. The slopes and cross-town travel punish checklist planning, so commit to one side instead of zigzagging across the peninsula.
The short answer
Pick one half and walk it downhill. West, afternoon into dusk: Line 1 Eling exit 2A → about 10 minutes up to Eling Park and the Kansheng Tower → 5 minutes east to Erchang → the stairs behind the Liziba platform, 10-15 minutes down → Line 2 from Liziba back toward Jiaochangkou. East, a morning: Line 1/2 Jiaochangkou → down the Shibati stairs → Line 1/6 Xiaoshizi and 10 minutes downhill to the Huguang Guild Hall → the Dongshuimen Bridge pavement beside it. With a full day, east in the morning, west in the afternoon, and Hongyadong after dark.
Only the Huguang Guild Hall has a ticket, and it is bought at the gate — the city dropped bookings for A-level spots on 25 July 2024. ¥25 on the city's list, ¥32 on platforms; the gate price is the answer, and sales end at 17:00. Liziba, Erchang, Eling Park, Shibati and the bridge are free and unfenced. The only booked thing nearby is the Eling Boardwalk, where passports book at the visitor service point.
The Huguang Guild Hall's museum galleries are closed (the courtyards and stages stay open and the ticket is still sold), the Erchang Memory Museum is closed, the Eling Boardwalk is shut and the Three Gorges Museum is closed. The free yards, the park, the Liziba platform and the Shibati stairs are unaffected — walk the west half on a Monday.
Liziba: before 9:00 or after 17:00 for a clear rail — tour buses arrive from mid-morning — and not in a downpour, since the platform has no roof. Erchang: photographers fill the railings 15:00-19:00, weekday mornings are empty. Kansheng Tower: look at the sky first; fog from November to February turns the view grey. Huguang: weekday mornings, not weekends 10:00-12:00.
The district police expect the streets round Liziba, Erchang and Eling Park to jam 8:00-19:00 and keep tour coaches off them; Changbin Road from the guild hall to Chaotianmen and the Dongshuimen Bridge's Nan'an-to-Yuzhong carriageway close to cars 16:00-24:00. Come by metro and walk — on a holiday the crowd, not the cars, is the problem.
Side by sideEach cell ends with the date of the notice it was checked against
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Eling ridge: Erchang and Eling Park
鹅岭：贰厂 · 鹅岭公园Open the place →- What you see · how long
- Erchang: the 1937 banknote-printing works, reopened in 2017 as an open yard of brick sheds, cafés and rooftops above both rivers. Eling Park next door: the 1909 garden with the seven-storey Kansheng Tower at its tip — one to two hours including the tower · 2025-11-12
- Ticket
- Both free: Erchang's yard, stairs and rooftops charge nothing (a few small shows charge a few yuan); Eling Park has been free since 2005 and nothing official prints a fee for the tower · 2022-02-12
- Hours · closed days
- Erchang's yard has no gate and is open at any hour, its shops roughly 9:00-22:00; the district lists the Eling scenic area 00:00-24:00, but treat 22:00 as closing for the tower and paths. The Erchang Memory Museum inside the yard is closed on Mondays · 2026-08-21
- Booking & passport
- None for either. Only the Eling Boardwalk on the cliff below the park is booked — real-name on WeChat, which wants a Chinese ID; passport holders book at the visitor service point · 2025-11-24
- Metro, exit, stairs
- Line 1 Eling exit 2A, then about 10 minutes uphill to the park's main gate; Erchang is 5 minutes east along Eling Main Street; from Erchang the stairs behind the Liziba viewing platform take 10-15 minutes · 2025-08-08
- Photos · crowds
- Erchang's west rooftops look down on the Line 2 track and the Jialing; photographers fill the yellow railings 15:00-19:00, weekday mornings are empty. Kansheng Tower queues on weekends 10:00-16:00, and winter fog (November-February) blanks the view · 2025-09-26
- Don't get this wrong
- Three things share the name: Erchang is the factory yard at No. 1 Eling Main Street, the park is at No. 176, and the booked, Monday-closed Eling Boardwalk is on the cliff below. The film's radio station on the roof was a set · 2026-09-22
Liziba Station (the train through the building)
李子坝站（单轨穿楼）Open the place →- What you see · how long
- The Line 2 monorail running through floors 6-7 of a 19-storey block, seen from the free official platform across the road — a 20-minute stop, not a morning · 2024-09-05
- Ticket
- Public street and platform, no ticketing; metro fare only if you ride one stop on to Fotuguan and back · 2018-07-11
- Hours · closed days
- Open-air platform, no hours published. The station is being rebuilt in 2026: Exit 1 closed 16 June-25 September, concourse A 1 September-31 October, platform areas to 30 November, all due by 30 December; trains keep running · 2026-06-13
- Booking & passport
- None · 2026-09-21
- Metro, exit, stairs
- Line 2 Liziba: Exit 1 is at street level next to the platform, Exit 2 on the 8th floor on Guihuayuan Road; during the rebuild follow the detour through the shopping level. From Erchang, 10-15 minutes down the stairs behind the platform · 2024-09-05
- Photos · crowds
- Stand on the 840 m² shooting deck, not the pavement — it sits at 33° to the tunnel mouth; wide lens, train entering from the left. Tour buses from mid-morning; come before 9:00 or after 17:00 for a clear rail. No roof — skip it in a downpour · 2025-09-26
- Don't get this wrong
- The station is on floors 6-7 — the '8th floor' in many posts counts the shop podium. And not Fotuguan, one stop on: that is the cherry-blossom 'train to spring', a different photograph · 2026-09-21
Shibati (Eighteen Steps)
十八梯Open the place →- What you see · how long
- The stair-street from the 'upper city' at Jiaochangkou down toward the Yangtze, rebuilt 2016-2021 on the old street grid; the wartime 'Great Tunnel' air-raid site is the one thing here older than 2016 · 2021-09-30
- Ticket
- Open street, no ticketing; the exhibits are free · 2026-09-21
- Hours · closed days
- Streets at all hours, shops roughly 10:00-22:00; the Chongqing Memory Museum 9:00-20:30 (platform); street lighting from dusk · 2021-09-30
- Booking & passport
- None for the street; the memory museum and the tunnel site may ask for a free slot on the 十八梯传统风貌区 WeChat official account (platform reports, 2026) · 2026-09-21
- Metro, exit, stairs
- Line 1/2 Jiaochangkou puts you at the head of the stairs — walk down and finish on Jiefang West Road, which saves the climb; from the Jiefangbei clock tower it is 15 minutes on foot · 2025-09-26
- Photos · crowds
- The stairs and the views down to the river are the photograph; the lights come on at dusk and the stalls run late. On National Day the quarter is pedestrian anyway — the crowd is the problem, not the cars · 2025-09-26
- Don't get this wrong
- The 'Shibati' metro exit and bus stop at Jiaochangkou are the top of the street; and the Chongqing Bombing Site Museum at 87 Jiaochangkou is a separate museum, not the Shibati tunnel site · 2026-09-21
Huguang Guild Hall
湖广会馆Open the place →- What you see · how long
- Three walled Qing guild halls begun in 1759 — carved opera stages, courtyards and the migration museum; one of the few genuinely old interiors in the district, and an hour is enough · 2026-09-21
- Ticket
- ¥25 on the city's list, ¥32 on platforms (¥16 concessions, ¥88 with a show); the district held a hearing in September 2024 on raising ¥25 to ¥32, so the gate may already charge ¥32 — the price on the day is the answer · 2026-01-06
- Hours · closed days
- 9:00-18:00, ticket sales end 17:00; on Mondays the museum galleries close while the courtyards and stages stay open · 2026-08-21
- Booking & passport
- No booking since July 2024 — buy at the gate. Nothing is published about ID for entry; concessions go on valid documents, and the hall's June 2026 children's notice lists passports among them · 2024-07-25
- Metro, exit, stairs
- Line 1/6 Xiaoshizi, then 10 minutes downhill; or the riverside walkway from Chaotianmen, 20 minutes. It sits at the bottom of the hill below the Dongshuimen Bridge · 2026-08-21
- Photos · crowds
- Weekday mornings are yours; weekends 10:00-12:00 are the tour-group window. The best outside view of the roofs is from the Dongshuimen Bridge pavement above · 2026-09-21
- Don't get this wrong
- The ticket covers the walled halls only — the 'Huguang Guild Hall Historic Block' around it is free rebuilt streets. The room inside pushing ¥100 'luck plaques' is a concession, not the museum: walk on · 2025-06-09
Dongshuimen Bridge and Baixiang Street
东水门大桥 · 白象街Open the place →- What you see · how long
- The Yangtze twin of Qiansimen Bridge — a footpath with the cableway cabins crossing about 300 m upstream and the guild-hall roofs below — and, under its peninsula end, Baixiang Street, the 1891 treaty-port street rebuilt in the 2010s · 2026-09-21
- Ticket
- Public bridge and open street, no ticketing · 2026-09-21
- Hours · closed days
- Bridge footpath at all hours, street shops daytime to evening; on 1-8 October the Nan'an-to-Yuzhong carriageway closes to cars 16:00-24:00 (the municipal reprint says the whole bridge) · 2025-09-26
- Booking & passport
- None · 2026-09-21
- Metro, exit, stairs
- Line 1/6 Xiaoshizi and 10 minutes downhill past the guild hall; the riverside walkway from Chaotianmen, about 2.4 km, ends at this bridge · 2021-09-30
- Photos · crowds
- Walk onto the pavement from the guild-hall end and stop a third of the way across: the cableway crosses to your left, the roofs are under you — free, and emptier than Qiansimen · 2021-09-30
- Don't get this wrong
- Not Qiansimen Bridge, which faces Hongyadong. The real old thing here is the Ming Dongshuimen gate under the bridge — 5 m high, one of only two of the old city's 17 gates still standing; Baixiang Street itself is a rebuild · 2024-12-23
| Compare | Eling ridge: Erchang and Eling Park | Liziba Station (the train through the building) | Shibati (Eighteen Steps) | Huguang Guild Hall | Dongshuimen Bridge and Baixiang Street |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you see · how long | Erchang: the 1937 banknote-printing works, reopened in 2017 as an open yard of brick sheds, cafés and rooftops above both rivers. Eling Park next door: the 1909 garden with the seven-storey Kansheng Tower at its tip — one to two hours including the tower · 2025-11-12 | The Line 2 monorail running through floors 6-7 of a 19-storey block, seen from the free official platform across the road — a 20-minute stop, not a morning · 2024-09-05 | The stair-street from the 'upper city' at Jiaochangkou down toward the Yangtze, rebuilt 2016-2021 on the old street grid; the wartime 'Great Tunnel' air-raid site is the one thing here older than 2016 · 2021-09-30 | Three walled Qing guild halls begun in 1759 — carved opera stages, courtyards and the migration museum; one of the few genuinely old interiors in the district, and an hour is enough · 2026-09-21 | The Yangtze twin of Qiansimen Bridge — a footpath with the cableway cabins crossing about 300 m upstream and the guild-hall roofs below — and, under its peninsula end, Baixiang Street, the 1891 treaty-port street rebuilt in the 2010s · 2026-09-21 |
| Ticket | Both free: Erchang's yard, stairs and rooftops charge nothing (a few small shows charge a few yuan); Eling Park has been free since 2005 and nothing official prints a fee for the tower · 2022-02-12 | Public street and platform, no ticketing; metro fare only if you ride one stop on to Fotuguan and back · 2018-07-11 | Open street, no ticketing; the exhibits are free · 2026-09-21 | ¥25 on the city's list, ¥32 on platforms (¥16 concessions, ¥88 with a show); the district held a hearing in September 2024 on raising ¥25 to ¥32, so the gate may already charge ¥32 — the price on the day is the answer · 2026-01-06 | Public bridge and open street, no ticketing · 2026-09-21 |
| Hours · closed days | Erchang's yard has no gate and is open at any hour, its shops roughly 9:00-22:00; the district lists the Eling scenic area 00:00-24:00, but treat 22:00 as closing for the tower and paths. The Erchang Memory Museum inside the yard is closed on Mondays · 2026-08-21 | Open-air platform, no hours published. The station is being rebuilt in 2026: Exit 1 closed 16 June-25 September, concourse A 1 September-31 October, platform areas to 30 November, all due by 30 December; trains keep running · 2026-06-13 | Streets at all hours, shops roughly 10:00-22:00; the Chongqing Memory Museum 9:00-20:30 (platform); street lighting from dusk · 2021-09-30 | 9:00-18:00, ticket sales end 17:00; on Mondays the museum galleries close while the courtyards and stages stay open · 2026-08-21 | Bridge footpath at all hours, street shops daytime to evening; on 1-8 October the Nan'an-to-Yuzhong carriageway closes to cars 16:00-24:00 (the municipal reprint says the whole bridge) · 2025-09-26 |
| Booking & passport | None for either. Only the Eling Boardwalk on the cliff below the park is booked — real-name on WeChat, which wants a Chinese ID; passport holders book at the visitor service point · 2025-11-24 | None · 2026-09-21 | None for the street; the memory museum and the tunnel site may ask for a free slot on the 十八梯传统风貌区 WeChat official account (platform reports, 2026) · 2026-09-21 | No booking since July 2024 — buy at the gate. Nothing is published about ID for entry; concessions go on valid documents, and the hall's June 2026 children's notice lists passports among them · 2024-07-25 | None · 2026-09-21 |
| Metro, exit, stairs | Line 1 Eling exit 2A, then about 10 minutes uphill to the park's main gate; Erchang is 5 minutes east along Eling Main Street; from Erchang the stairs behind the Liziba viewing platform take 10-15 minutes · 2025-08-08 | Line 2 Liziba: Exit 1 is at street level next to the platform, Exit 2 on the 8th floor on Guihuayuan Road; during the rebuild follow the detour through the shopping level. From Erchang, 10-15 minutes down the stairs behind the platform · 2024-09-05 | Line 1/2 Jiaochangkou puts you at the head of the stairs — walk down and finish on Jiefang West Road, which saves the climb; from the Jiefangbei clock tower it is 15 minutes on foot · 2025-09-26 | Line 1/6 Xiaoshizi, then 10 minutes downhill; or the riverside walkway from Chaotianmen, 20 minutes. It sits at the bottom of the hill below the Dongshuimen Bridge · 2026-08-21 | Line 1/6 Xiaoshizi and 10 minutes downhill past the guild hall; the riverside walkway from Chaotianmen, about 2.4 km, ends at this bridge · 2021-09-30 |
| Photos · crowds | Erchang's west rooftops look down on the Line 2 track and the Jialing; photographers fill the yellow railings 15:00-19:00, weekday mornings are empty. Kansheng Tower queues on weekends 10:00-16:00, and winter fog (November-February) blanks the view · 2025-09-26 | Stand on the 840 m² shooting deck, not the pavement — it sits at 33° to the tunnel mouth; wide lens, train entering from the left. Tour buses from mid-morning; come before 9:00 or after 17:00 for a clear rail. No roof — skip it in a downpour · 2025-09-26 | The stairs and the views down to the river are the photograph; the lights come on at dusk and the stalls run late. On National Day the quarter is pedestrian anyway — the crowd is the problem, not the cars · 2025-09-26 | Weekday mornings are yours; weekends 10:00-12:00 are the tour-group window. The best outside view of the roofs is from the Dongshuimen Bridge pavement above · 2026-09-21 | Walk onto the pavement from the guild-hall end and stop a third of the way across: the cableway crosses to your left, the roofs are under you — free, and emptier than Qiansimen · 2021-09-30 |
| Don't get this wrong | Three things share the name: Erchang is the factory yard at No. 1 Eling Main Street, the park is at No. 176, and the booked, Monday-closed Eling Boardwalk is on the cliff below. The film's radio station on the roof was a set · 2026-09-22 | The station is on floors 6-7 — the '8th floor' in many posts counts the shop podium. And not Fotuguan, one stop on: that is the cherry-blossom 'train to spring', a different photograph · 2026-09-21 | The 'Shibati' metro exit and bus stop at Jiaochangkou are the top of the street; and the Chongqing Bombing Site Museum at 87 Jiaochangkou is a separate museum, not the Shibati tunnel site · 2026-09-21 | The ticket covers the walled halls only — the 'Huguang Guild Hall Historic Block' around it is free rebuilt streets. The room inside pushing ¥100 'luck plaques' is a concession, not the museum: walk on · 2025-06-09 | Not Qiansimen Bridge, which faces Hongyadong. The real old thing here is the Ming Dongshuimen gate under the bridge — 5 m high, one of only two of the old city's 17 gates still standing; Baixiang Street itself is a rebuild · 2024-12-23 |
Eling Boardwalk, below Eling Park：The one booked thing near either walk: 460 m of steel walkway along the cliff below the park, free, Tuesday to Sunday 9:00-18:00 (last entry 17:40), shut on Mondays except public holidays. The WeChat booking wants a Chinese ID; passport holders book at the visitor service point, in Chinese. Optional — the park's own paths need nothing. a detour off the west half, not on a Monday.
Hongyadong：Not in the table because it is a night stop: no ticket, 11:00-23:00, lights from 19:30; the floor-11 entrance is 5-10 minutes on foot from Xiaoshizi. Where to watch it from is its own decision page. after dark, after either half. → See “Where to See Chongqing's Night Skyline”
Kuixinglou (the roof that is a road)：Street level here is the 22nd floor: the plaza at Line 2 Linjiangmen exit 2 is the roof of a tower whose base is on the riverside road far below, and two footbridges hang over a 65.8 m drop. Tell a taxi the hospital outpatient building next door, not 'Kuixinglou', or you land 22 floors down. A 20-30 minute stop on the way to Hongyadong at dusk. on the way to Hongyadong, if heights do not bother you.
Shancheng Lane：The lane that kept its old fabric: 600 m west of Shibati, the Ming wall underfoot and a cantilevered walkway on the cliff above the Yangtze bridges; free, open day and night. It is a climb of nearly 80 m — walk down from Qixinggang exit 1 rather than up from Jiaochangkou exit 5. an add-on to the east half, after Shibati.
Three Gorges Museum：Free and bookless since 1 October 2025 — 'a valid identity document' at the door, passport not named, so carry the original; 9:00-17:00, no entry after 16:00, closed Mondays except public holidays. It is on People's Square, off both walks: a rainy-day morning of its own. a rainy day instead of either walk.
Luohan Temple (draft entry)：Draft entry: ¥20 at the gate on 2025 platform pages (older pages ¥10), 8:00-17:00 per platforms — the temple publishes nothing; gate only, cash or QR. 5 minutes east of the Jiefangbei monument along Minzu Road. A place of worship first; 30 minutes is enough. a quiet half hour between Jiefangbei and Hongyadong.
One by one
Eling ridge: Erchang and Eling Park
鹅岭：贰厂 · 鹅岭公园The easy half of the peninsula and the better view: free, gate-less, and downhill if you start at the park. Erchang is an influencer yard with the printing history reduced to signboards — come for the rooftop and the walk down to Liziba, not for the shops. The tower is weather-dependent: a clear evening is the best free view in Chongqing, a foggy one is grey. For the start of the west half, in the afternoon.
Open the place →Liziba Station (the train through the building)
李子坝站（单轨穿楼）The one photograph everyone wants, and it takes two minutes to shoot — the wait for the next train is three to five. The platform alone is not a half day: put it at the bottom of the walk down from Eling. In 2026 the station's exits close in turn; the city's rebuild notice covers the station only and says nothing about the platform across the road. For the end of the west half, after 17:00.
Open the place →Shibati (Eighteen Steps)
十八梯A well-made stage set about the old lower city, opened in 2021 with 127 shops: the stairs and the fall to the river are real, the buildings are new and the snacks are tourist-priced. Walk it downhill, find the tunnel, and for a lane that actually kept its old fabric go 600 m west to Shancheng Lane. For the start of the east half — downhill from Jiaochangkou.
Open the place →Huguang Guild Hall
湖广会馆The only ticket and the only real old interior on either walk: come for the carved stages, give it an hour, be through the gate by 17:00, and do not come on a Monday if you want the museum halls. Ask the price at the gate — the city's list and the platforms disagree. For the middle of the east half, before 17:00.
Open the place →Dongshuimen Bridge and Baixiang Street
东水门大桥 · 白象街The free end of the east half: a road bridge with a pavement and a rebuilt street with a heritage name, worth it for the view of the cableway and the guild-hall roofs. Look for the Ming gate under the bridge; the cableway's south station is 15 minutes across on foot if you want its shorter queue. For the end of the east half, straight after the guild hall.
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