Jianghan Road Pedestrian Street

"Wuhan's Museum of Twentieth-Century Architecture" (1600m century-old commercial street), old bank buildings (former Shanghai Bank / Daqing Bank sites) and the Zhongshan Avenue historic district; Jianghan Customs House Museum (customs building built in 1924, free, the clock tower plays the Westminster chimes on the hour). The 1600-meter-long Jianghan Road has been Central China's premier commercial street since Hankou opened as a treaty port in the late Qing; lined with arcade buildings (qilou) and old bank buildings, weaving together Renaissance, Baroque and modern Chinese-Western styles, it is known as "Wuhan's Museum of Twentieth-Century Architecture." The facades of financial-era landmarks such as the former Shanghai Bank and Daqing Bank sites are well preserved, and old Hankou's "Chicago of the East" air can still be felt here. The Jianghan Customs House at the street's mouth, completed in 1924 as the landmark of the Hankou Customs, is now the free-entry Jianghan Customs House Museum; its clock tower plays the Westminster chimes on the hour, and listening to the bells by the river is a collective memory of old Wuhan natives. The pedestrian street glitters with neon at night, linking with the Zhongshan Avenue historic district into a complete "old Hankou" walking route.

Getting there: Metro Line 2, Jianghan Road Station