AreaOld Canton: Beijing Road, Yuexiu Park and the Nanyue King
BEIJING ROAD AND THE THOUSAND-YEAR ROAD SITE · BEIJING LU
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VERIFIED2026.09.15Old Canton: Beijing Road, Yuexiu Park and the Nanyue King · 23.126°N 113.264°E
No ticketing
Guangzhou's oldest street, and it can prove it: two glass floors in the middle of the pedestrian mall show eleven road surfaces stacked from the Tang dynasty to the Republic, and the foundations of the Song-to-Qing Gongbei gate tower, dug up in 2002 when the street was repaved. The axis has not moved in 2,200 years — the Nanyue palace ruins are one block north. Around the glass it is a chain-store shopping street with arcaded side lanes, open all hours, free; come for the ground and the lanes, not the shops.
AdmissionNo ticketingPublic street, no ticketing; road site open around the clock
HoursStreet and road site all day (district office); shops about 10-22Verified · 2026-09Source ↗
AddressBeijing Road pedestrian street, Yuexiu District — the north glass section is mid-street in front of the Children's Bookstore, the Gongbei tower section is in front of Guangzhou Department Store (广州百货大厦)Verified · 2026-09Source ↗Navigate ↗
EntranceMetro Line 1/2 Gongyuanqian station, Exit D for the north end; Line 6 Beijing Road station, Exit A for the south end
Last verified 2026-09-15
Beat the crowds
Weekend evenings are the crush from about 18:00 to closing; weekday mornings before 11:00 the glass floors are empty and the light is best for photographing the layers.
Language
District signage on the street is bilingual (about 420 sign panels were replaced in 2016); the road-site interpretation panels are in Chinese with English headings.