Chongqing Hidden Gems | One-Day Tour Guide
by PenttiSalmela
Feb 13, 2025
❤Recommended: Hidden gems and photogenic spots!
🕙Morning
✅Must-visit: Longmenhao Old Street
🌟Highlights:
Once a gathering place for embassies during the opening of the port, it retains more than 200 historical buildings, blending Chinese and Western styles, suitable for shooting retro or literary blockbusters.
🚉Transportation: Get off at "Shangxin Street Station" on Metro Line 6 or the Loop Line.
👍Must-visit photo spots:
1. Starlight Viewing Platform: Overlooking the Yangtze River and Yuzhong Peninsula.
2. The old building arch next to the Jixiashan Hotel.
3. The riverside trail and Dongshuimen Bridge in the same frame.
🕙Noon
✅Jinzishan Cultural and Creative Park
🌟Highlights:
An old stone house converted into a cultural and creative park, with exterior walls built of local stone, rough industrial style, suitable for shooting cold or ins-style photos.
🚉Transportation: Get off at "Hongqihegou Station" on Metro Line 3 or 6.
👍Must-visit photo spots:
1. Stone exterior walls and geometric stairs.
2. Cafes and art exhibition spaces in the park.
3. A combination of retro red brick factory buildings and greenery.
🕙Afternoon
✅Former French Navy Barracks:
🌟Highlights:
A century-old European-style building, once the residence of the French Navy, exotic style, can shoot a French manor feel.
🚉Transportation: About 10 minutes by taxi from Longmenhao Old Street, or walk 1.5 kilometers.
👍Must-visit photo spots:
1. The main building arch and corridor light and shadow.
2. Old trees and stone steps in the courtyard.
3. Warm-toned building silhouettes at dusk.
🕙Evening:
✅Hezuo Village Youth International Community
🌟Highlights:
Transformed from an old Chang'an factory, it retains industrial relics, with staggered ramps and stairs, full of retro literary atmosphere.
🚉Transportation: Get off at "Liyuchi Station" on Metro Line 9 or 10.
👍Must-visit photo spots:
1. The corner where the red brick wall and the climbing tiger intertwine.
2. Rooftop terrace overlooking the community panorama.
3. Glass house bookstore transformed from an old factory building.
🧳Other hidden gems
Huangjueping Graffiti Art Street, Minzhu Village, Baixiang Street.
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