75 AAAA tourist attractions in Beijing, from the list published by the provincial tourism department. See also AAAAA tourist attractions in Beijing, Beijing and all provinces.
District de Fengtai (8)
- Parc du monde de Beijing 北京世界公园A park featuring miniature replicas of famous sites around the world, opened in 1993 on 46.7 hectares; its zones follow the five continents and hold over a hundred models, mostly at 1:10 scale.
- Parc forestier national de Beigong 北宫国家森林公园A national forest park named after an imperial resting place, designated national-level in 2005 with 68.8% forest cover; its 1,800 mu of autumn foliage makes it one of Beijing’s main leaf-viewing spots.
- Museum of the War of Chinese People’s Resistance Against Japanese Aggression 中国人民抗日战争纪念馆A large comprehensive memorial museum inside Wanping Fortress presenting the full history of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
- Musée des jardins et de l’architecture paysagère chinois 中国园林博物馆China’s first national-level museum devoted to gardens and landscape architecture.
- Zone pittoresque de Nangong 南宫旅游景区
- Grand jardin panoramique des fleurs du monde 世界花卉大观园
- Musée de l’automobile de Beijing 北京汽车博物馆
- Parc de l’Exposition des jardins de Beijing 北京园博园
District de Xicheng (8)
- Shichahai 什刹海The collective name for three lakes, Qianhai, Houhai and Xihai, in northern old Beijing, about 34 hectares, named for the ten temples around them; listed in 2013 as part of the Grand Canal national key cultural heritage site.
- Parc de Beihai 北海公园First laid out in the Song-Liao-Jin era, the world’s oldest surviving imperial garden, centred on Qionghua Island whose White Dagoba at Yong’an Temple forms an axis with the Round City and the northern palace complex.
- Zoo de Beijing 北京动物园Founded in 1906, China’s earliest-opened zoo with the most species, now keeping over 490 kinds and nearly 5,000 wild animals; it has bred giant pandas, crested ibises and golden snub-nosed monkeys.
- Aquarium de Beijing 北京海洋馆An aquarium inside Beijing Zoo covering 120,000 square metres, the world’s largest inland aquarium.
- Parc Jingshan 景山公园An imperial garden of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties on Beijing’s central axis; its hill was once the city’s highest point, and it historically served for archery, funerary rites, ancestral worship and official schooling.
- Musée de la capitale 首都博物馆Beijing’s large comprehensive museum, under the Beijing Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage.
- Parc de Taoranting 陶然亭公园An urban park named after the Taoran Pavilion within it, on Taiping Street in Xicheng District.
- Planétarium de Beijing 北京天文馆Beijing’s astronomy exhibition hall and science education base, under the Beijing Academy of Science and Technology.
District de Changping (7)
- Grande Muraille de Juyongguan 居庸关长城A famous fortified pass of the Ming Great Wall, together with nearby Badaling a key barrier northwest of Beijing; with Daoma and Zijing passes it forms the “Inner Three Passes”. First built in the Qin dynasty, it was the key pass of the Jundu route among the Eight Passes of Taihang.
- Musée de l’aviation de Chine 中国航空博物馆An aviation museum originally at Shahe Airfield in Xiaotangshan, Changping, now moved to Dafangshen Airport in Changchun.
- Forêt de pagodes de Yinshan 银山塔林A group of pagodas comprising 6 dense-eave pagodas, 1 dense-eave stupa-style pagoda and 11 stupa-style pagodas, built from the Jin to the Qing dynasty as tomb pagodas for monks of nearby temples; a national key cultural heritage site since 1988.
- Station thermale de Longmai 龙脉温泉度假村
- Xiaotangshan Modern Agriculture Demonstration Park 小汤山现代农业示范园区
- Ville d’eau de Wendu 温都水城
- Place des vacances de Leduogang 乐多港假日广场
District de Haidian (6)
- Jardin botanique national 国家植物园Formed by merging the former Beijing Botanical Garden with the Institute of Botany’s garden and inaugurated in 2022, with a planned area of nearly 600 hectares and a target of over 30,000 plant species.
- Parc de Xiangshan 香山公园A former imperial garden once called Jingyi Garden, drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors each autumn for its red leaves.
- Tour centrale de radio et de télévision 中央广播电视塔A 405-metre broadcasting tower, once Beijing’s tallest structure and the fourth-tallest tower in China and ninth in the world, made up of a trestle bridge, terrace, base, shaft, turret and antenna mast.
- Parc de Zizhuyuan 紫竹院公园One of Beijing’s municipal parks, on Zhongguancun South Street in Haidian District.
- Parc de Yuyuantan 玉渊潭公园The largest park inside Beijing’s Third Ring Road, over 100 hectares, best known for its cherry blossoms and the festival held each late April to early May; its lake is fed from the Summer Palace.
- Fenghuangling 凤凰岭A scenic area in Beijing’s western suburbs, anciently called Qianfeng Mountain and known as the “Little Huangshan of West Beijing”, with Longquan Temple, Taoyuan Taoist Temple, the Flying Rock and the Sky Ladder.
District de Pinggu (6)
- Lac Jinhai 金海湖Also known as Haizi Reservoir, formed by damming the Ju River; one of Beijing’s four large reservoirs, serving flood control, irrigation and water supply.
- Zone pittoresque culturelle taoïste de Yajishan (Beijing) 北京丫髻山道教文化名胜区A famed Taoist mountain in northern Liujiadian Town, Pinggu, where a Qing-dynasty travelling palace once stood.
- Grand canyon de Jingdong 京东大峡谷A gorge scenic area at Yuzishan Village northeast of Pinggu, comprising the Grand Canyon and Jingtai Mountain zones over about 20 square kilometres.
- Zone pittoresque de Qinglongshan à Pinggu (Beijing) 北京平谷青龙山旅游区
- Zone pittoresque de Jingdong Shilinxia 京东石林峡风景区
- Station de ski internationale de Yuyang 渔阳国际滑雪场
District de Yanqing (6)
- Gorge de Longqing 龙庆峡A gorge scenic area formed around Gucheng Reservoir, completed in 1981, popular in Beijing’s outer suburbs; an ice lantern festival has been held around Spring Festival every year since 1987.
- Zone pittoresque de la galerie de Baili Shanshui à Yanqing 延庆百里山水画廊景区A large scenic area in Qianjiadian Town, northeast Yanqing, roughly matching the Qianjiadian zone of the Yanqing Global Geopark; at 371 square kilometres it is Beijing’s first 4A area covering an entire town.
- Parc national des zones humides de Yeyahu 野鸭湖国家湿地公园Beijing’s largest wetland ecosystem and its only national wetland park, 283.4 hectares including reservoir, river, marsh and other wetland types.
- Zone pittoresque de la Grande Muraille de Shuiguan (Badaling) 八达岭水关长城景区
- Zone touristique de la forêt de Songshan 松山森林旅游区
- Parc de l’exposition horticole de Beijing 北京世园公园
District de Chaoyang (5)
- Parc d’attractions Happy Valley de Beijing 北京欢乐谷A large cultural theme park by the East Fourth Ring Road in Chaoyang District, Beijing, opened in July 2006 on 560,000 square metres.
- Musée du santal rouge de Chine 中国紫檀博物馆China’s first museum devoted to red sandalwood art and the first private museum bearing the name “China”, founded by Chen Lihua in 1999, with more than 3,000 items in its collection.
- Parc des ruines des remparts de Dadu des Yuan 元大都城垣遗址公园A park built along the ruins of the Yuan capital Dadu’s city wall, spanning Haidian and Chaoyang districts; earthen wall remains over ten metres high survive, known locally as the “Earth City”.
- Parc de Chaoyang 朝阳公园The largest urban park inside Beijing’s Fourth Ring Road, with a planned area of 288.7 hectares.
- Ferme écologique verte de Xiedao 蟹岛绿色生态农庄
District de Dongcheng (5)
- Temple de Confucius et Guozijian 孔庙/国子监China’s second-largest Confucius temple after Qufu, founded in 1302 as the site of official state sacrifices to Confucius under the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties; it holds stelae naming imperial examination graduates since the Yuan and a forest of 189 stelae inscribed with the Thirteen Classics.
- Parc de Longtan 龙潭公园A comprehensive urban park built around a lake and themed on dragon culture, opened in 1984 with 42.3 hectares, nearly half of it water.
- Parc Zhongshan 中山公园Formerly the Altar of Land and Grain of the Ming and Qing dynasties, built opposite the Imperial Ancestral Temple under the “ancestors left, altars right” rite, just west of Tian’anmen; now a 230,000-square-metre memorial garden of classical altar and temple architecture.
- Parc de Ditan 地坛公园The altar where Ming and Qing emperors sacrificed to the god of the earth every summer solstice, in use from the Jiajing Emperor onward and gradually turned into a park in the 20th century.
- Parc des ruines des remparts des Ming 明城墙遗址公园
District de Fangshan (5)
- Temple Yunju 云居寺Originally called Xiyu Temple; its hillside buildings were destroyed during the war against Japan, leaving Tang and Liao pagodas and the caves on Stone Sutra Hill that hold stone-carved scriptures. Listed among the first national key cultural heritage sites in 1961.
- Musée du site de Zhoukoudian 周口店遗址博物馆A paleoanthropological site made up of caves on Dragon Bone Hill where abundant Peking Man fossils were found; among the first national key cultural heritage sites in 1961 and inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1987.
- Zone pittoresque de Shidu à Fangshan 房山十渡风景名胜区The only large-scale karst landscape in northern China, and a national geopark.
- Grotte Shihua 石花洞
- Station touristique de Shenglianshan 圣莲山旅游度假区
District de Huairou (4)
- Temple Hongluo 红螺寺A Han Buddhist temple at the southern foot of Hongluo Mountain, a sacred Buddhist site of northern China.
- Lac Yanqi 雁栖湖Originally the Beitaishang Reservoir completed in 1962, with 1.8 million square metres of water and a 5-km lakeside road; venue of the 2014 APEC meeting.
- Station touristique de Qinglongxia 青龙峡旅游度假区
- Beijing Huanghuacheng Water Great Wall Scenic Area 北京黄花城水长城旅游区
District de Mentougou (4)
- Temple Tanzhe 潭柘寺Formally Xiuyun Chan Temple, founded in the Western Jin dynasty as Beijing’s oldest temple; a local saying goes, “First came Tanzhe Temple, then came Beijing.”
- Temple Jietai 戒台寺Also called Jietan Temple, famed for its grand ordination platform, one of China’s three great ordination platforms alongside those of Zhaoqing Temple in Hangzhou and Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou; a national key cultural heritage site since 1996.
- Village de Gushan 谷山村
- Grotte Baqi 八奇洞
District de Miyun (4)
- Zone pittoresque de la Grande Muraille de Simatai 司马台长城景区The most precipitous section of the Great Wall, 5.4 km long, first built under the Northern Qi with Ming-era structures surviving; restoration preserved its original appearance. The “Sky Bridge” between east towers 15 and 16 is only about 30 cm wide.
- Zone pittoresque de Heilongtan 黑龙潭旅游区
- Zone pittoresque de Xianjugu 仙居谷风景区
- Domaine viticole international du château de Changyu Afip de Beijing 北京张裕爱菲堡国际酒庄
District de Shijingshan (2)
- Parc de Badachu 八大处公园Also called the Eight Great Sites of the Western Hills, eight Han Buddhist temples on Cuiwei, Lushi and Jue mountains, now a park.
- Parc d’attractions de Shijingshan 石景山游乐园Beijing’s second-largest amusement park, built in 1986 on over 260,000 square metres, blending Chinese garden style with Western castles.
District de Shunyi (2)
- Parc aquatique olympique de Beijing 北京奥林匹克水上公园Venue for rowing, canoeing and marathon swimming at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, built on the Chaobai River with 1,200 permanent seats.
- Port aux fleurs international de Shunyi (Beijing) 北京顺义国际鲜花港
District de Tongzhou (2)
- Zone touristique de la forêt du Grand Canal de Tongzhou 通州大运河森林旅游区
- Musée d’art de Han Meilin (Beijing) 北京韩美林艺术馆