Yixing

Yixing, Jiangsu Province, is a county-level city with a population of 1.24 million.

Understand

Get in

Yixing is on the west side of Lake Tai and is almost at the centre of the triangle consisting of Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou. The bullet trains on the Nanjing–Hangzhou Intercity Railway route now connect Yixing to those two cities.

Expressways connect Yixing with all main cities in the Yangtze Delta. There are two main routes, the Nanjing-Shanghai Expressway and Nanjing-Hangzhou Expressway.

There are buses to most major cities nearby -

• Changzhou ¥21
• Wuxi ¥25
• Hangzhou ¥58
• Nanjing ¥58
• Suzhou ¥69
• Shanghai ¥79
• Hefei ¥105

The distances between Yixing and international airports in this area are:

Shanghai
Hongqiao International Airport 190 km, 2-hour-drive;
Pudong International Airport 242 km, 2.5-hour-drive;
Nanjing
Lukou International Airport 108 km, 1.5-hour-drive;
Hangzhou
Xiaoshan International Airport 180 km, 2-hour-drive;
Wuxi
Sunan Shuofang International Airport 95 km, 1-hour-drive.

Get around

See

Some attractions include -

• Forest Park
• Yi Park
• Bamboo Forest
• Shanjuan Cave

and a number of other caves and parks.

Do

Buy

Yixing teapot

Yixing is famous for stoneware, especially teapots, made from the local clay.

Eat

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Drink

Sleep

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