East Lake
Six times the size of West Lake; greenways, cherry trees and lakeside cycling.
Visitor info
- Opening hours
- 24/7
- Ticket
- free (pocket sights 20-40 CNY)
- Suggested visit
- half day
Price is indicative — final quote on inquiry.
Why it's worth it
Thirty-three square kilometres of lake — six West Lakes in one — with a 100-kilometre greenway threading cherry groves, plum hills and reed marshes along the shore. This is Wuhan's weekend body and soul.
Don't miss
- Moshan's cherry blossom corridors in late March — the city's pinkest fortnight
- Cycling the greenway from Listening-to-Waves shore towards the opera stage on the water
- The sightseeing steam-train ride for when legs give out
Getting there
Line 8 to Liyuan (Tingtao scenic area) for the main shore; Moshan is a shuttle or long walk east along the greenway.
Tips
- Rent bikes at the greenway stations; the loop segments are signed and car-free
- Cherry season means crowds at Moshan gates — arrive at opening or visit the campus groves instead
- The lake is bigger than it looks: pick one shore per visit rather than orbiting
Photos
More in Wuhan
- Hubu Alley
Breakfast alley: hot dry noodles, doupi and fried doughsticks.
- Yellow Crane Tower
The most-quoted tower in Chinese poetry, overlooking the Yangtze.
- Hubei Provincial Museum
Home of the 2,400-year-old bells of Marquis Yi of Zeng.
- Yellow Crane Tower Park
"The First Tower of the Rivers and Mountains under Heaven" (a military watchtower built by Sun Quan in 223, the second year of Huangwu of Eastern Wu in the Three Kingdoms period; repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt—burned down in 1884, rebuilt on Snake Hill in 1985), main tower 51.4m with five tiers of flying eaves (golden gourd finial), Cui Hao's verse "The man of old has ridden away on a yellow crane"…
- Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge
Completed in 1957 as the "First Bridge over the Ten-Thousand-Li Yangtze" (Soviet-assisted design, road-rail dual use); "A flying bridge spans north and south, turning the natural moat into a thoroughfare" (Mao Zedong's ci poem)
- Qingchuan Pavilion
"Scenic wonder of the Three Chu regions" (facing Yellow Crane Tower across the river, from Cui Hao's line "The sunlit river shows Hanyang's trees in clear view"); Yu-Ji Palace (commemorating Yu the Great's flood control) + Tiemen Pass (Three Kingdoms relic)