Nanjing Normal University, Suiyuan Campus

the former Ginling College

LandmarkGulou, Yihe Road and Xinjiekou

NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY, SUIYUAN CAMPUS (THE FORMER GINLING COLLEGE) · NANJING SHIFAN DAXUE SUIYUAN XIAOQU

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Gulou, Yihe Road and Xinjiekou · 32.055°N 118.762°E

FreeReservation required

The campus of Ginling College, China's first women's university at undergraduate level, founded by an American union of missions in 1913 and moved to this site off Ninghai Road in 1923. The layout is by the American architect Henry Killam Murphy with the Chinese architect Lü Yanzhi - who went on to design the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum - and it is the clearest surviving example of what they were trying to do: Chinese palace-style buildings in reinforced concrete, set symmetrically along an east-west axis around a great lawn and tied together by covered Chinese-style walkways. Behind Building 100 the ground opens into a garden built round an artificial lake, and the axis runs on up the western slope to finish at a Chinese pavilion.

Before you goTreat this as a maybe. The university does open both its Nanjing campuses to the public, but everything runs through a Chinese WeChat official account: follow Nanjing Normal University, open Service NNU, choose Open Day Booking, read and accept the entry terms, fill in a name, phone number and ID number, then swipe a document at gate 1 or gate 4 on the day. Reposts of the university's notice say bookings open five days ahead and close when the daily quota is full. Read the calendar carefully too: the 2026 opening we could document was a defined window - three days over the April spring break, 08:30 to 17:00 - not the standing weekend access Nanjing University publishes, so there may be no slots at all on an ordinary weekend. That notice was addressed to schoolchildren from across the city and the parents accompanying them, so it is not certain an ordinary adult visitor, let alone a foreign one, was in scope. Nothing the university publishes says whether a foreign passport can be entered in that ID field, and we could not open the university's own website, so everything above comes from reposts of the university's account. If you want a definite answer before you travel, the number given in those notices for other matters is the president's office, 025-85898956. If you cannot get in, the consolation is that this is a bit over a kilometre from Yihe Road and the walk between them is the pleasant part of the district anyway. Something wrong here? Tell us →

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AdmissionFreeNo fee published; the campus is not ticketed

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IDReal-name booking, with a document swiped at the gate.Details ↓

LandmarkNanjing Normal University, Suiyuan Campus (the former Ginling College) (南京师范大学随园校区 · 金陵女子大学旧址，100 号楼与大草坪)

Address122 Ninghai Road, Gulou District, Nanjing (南京市鼓楼区宁海路 122 号)Source ↗Navigate ↗

EntranceOpen-day visitors use gate 1 or gate 4 of the Suiyuan campus; no vehicles. The nearest metro station is Wutaishan on Line 5, about 900 m to the south-east; Yunnanlu on Line 4 is about the same distance to the north-east

Last verified 2026-09-24 Source: platforms and press

How to book

Open-day slots go through the Nanjing Normal University WeChat official account (Service NNU, Open Day Booking); the Suiyuan campus is entered at gates 1 and 4

ID details

Real-name booking, with a document swiped at the gate. Whether a foreign passport can be used is not published

Paying on site

Nothing to buy; the constraint is the booking

Language

No English visitor information found

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