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Wǔhàn Sights

Yellow Crane Tower

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  • Address
    • Wuluo Lu
  • Price
    • admission Y80
  • Hours
    • 7.30am-5.30pm, to 6.30pm summer

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Lonely Planet review for Yellow Crane Tower

Wǔhàn's magical dancing crane, immortalised in the poetry of Cui Hao, has long flown but the city's pride and joy remains perched on top of Snake Hill. The tower has had its history rebuilt out of it since the original was constructed in AD 223, and today's beautiful five-storey, yellow-tiled version is a 1980s remake of the Qing tower that combusted in 1884. Trolley bus 1 and bus 10 go here.

 

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    Expensive but interesting

    maria9898 recommends this,

    If you're on a budget, the Yellow Crane Tower isn't really worth the steep 100 rmb entrance fee (no discount for foreign students, even if you have a Chinese student ID). If the entrance fee isn't a big deal though, this is worth a visit. The tower itself is nice but not that exciting, but the ticket also gives you entrance into the large park behind the tower, which is nice to walk around in. The highlight for me was the performance of traditional/ancient Chinese instruments, including a replica of the "serial bells" that can be seen in the Hubei Provincial Museum. The performance is held a regular intervals during the day in one of the buildings near the exit of the park (the opposite end of the park relative to the tower).

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