天津
Tianjin
Beijing's neighbor with its own personality — colonial concessions, the world's largest Ferris wheel, and breakfast dumplings worth the trip.
天津
Beijing's neighbor with its own personality — colonial concessions, the world's largest Ferris wheel, and breakfast dumplings worth the trip.
Tianjin is 30 minutes from Beijing by high-speed rail but feels like a different country. Between 1860 and 1945, nine foreign powers established concession territories here, leaving a patchwork of European architecture — Italian villas, German mansions, French boulevards, and British pubs — along the Hai River. The Five Great Avenues (Wudadao) district has 200+ European-style buildings. Tianjin is also a food city: Goubuli baozi (stuffed buns), jianbing guozi (crepe wraps), and fried dough twists (mahua) are local institutions. The Tianjin Eye, a 120-meter Ferris wheel built on a bridge over the Hai River, offers a panoramic city view.
