AreaBeyond the Old Line: the Stations, the Hakka Walled Villages and the Oyster Coast
DAFEN OIL PAINTING VILLAGE · DAFEN YOUHUA CUN
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Beyond the Old Line: the Stations, the Hakka Walled Villages and the Oyster Coast · 22.613°N 114.132°E
No ticketingClosure day
A village of about 0.4 sq km in Buji where you can stand in a lane and watch people paint. It started in the late 1980s when copyists clustered here and a market formed; the district government stepped in after press coverage in 1998, and it became one of China's first National Cultural Industry Demonstration Bases and has been a China Cultural Industries Fair sub-venue every year since 2004. Since 2019 it has been cleaned up and since 2022 partly re-developed by a commercial operator.
HoursLanes open street; Dafen Art Museum 9:30-17:30Secondhand source
ClosedMuseum closed Mondays except public holidaysSecondhand source
IDNone published for the streets; current museum notices do not mention IDSecondhand source
LandmarkDafen Oil Painting Village (大芬油画村)
AddressBusha Road, Buji Subdistrict, Longgang District (深圳市龙岗区布吉街道布沙路)Secondhand sourceNavigate ↗
EntranceMetro Line 3 'Dafen' station, exit A1, about 500 m to the village; a bronze hand holding a brush stands at the village entrance. Dafen Art Museum is inside the village
Last verified 2026-09-23Source: platforms and press
How to book
None; the museum takes no booking
Paying on site
Nothing to buy to enter. The museum is free and takes no advance booking; shops price by negotiation and most take mobile payment, which foreign cards can be loaded into
Language
No published English service; many shops deal with export orders and manage in some English