Beijing city guide: sources, transformations and photo credits Reviewed October 14, 2026. The text, questions, explanations and selection of twenty sights were written for Worldly. Official tourism, museum and heritage references are linked below. Recommendations to group nearby places and allow time are editorial choices. Ticket prices, exact opening hours and train timetables are left to the linked operators. Reservation and payment guidance was checked against official visitor information on the review date and may change. Visitor reservations, museums and overseas-card subway payment https://www.dpm.org.cn/singles_detail/259831.html https://english.beijing.gov.cn/specials/ticketing/index.html https://english.beijing.gov.cn/contactus/faqs/list/202602/t20260209_4502729.html https://english.beijing.gov.cn/travellinginbeijing/citytours/202505/t20250502_4080168.html https://english.beijing.gov.cn/travellinginbeijing/museums/202603/t20260320_4562528.html https://english.beijing.gov.cn/travellinginbeijing/museums/202603/t20260323_4563790.html https://english.beijing.gov.cn/specials/ticketing/museums/202409/t20240929_3909675.html https://english.beijing.gov.cn/travellinginbeijing/events/202607/t20260728_4794062.html https://english.beijing.gov.cn/latest/news/202412/t20241211_3963033.html Geography, neighborhoods, transport, food and planning https://english.visitbeijing.com.cn/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Beijing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_roads_of_Beijing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siheyuan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Subway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Daxing_International_Airport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_duck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhajiangmian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianbing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-boiled_mutton History, architecture, gardens and the Great Wall https://en.dpm.org.cn/ https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/439/ https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1714/ https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/881/ https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/880/ https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/438/ https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1004/ https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/peking-opera-00418 Maps District boundaries: OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. See /data/beijing-boundaries-license.txt for relation IDs and processing. Sight coordinates: WGS84 from English Wikipedia, each checked against satellite imagery and moved onto the feature where needed (the Summer Palace's Tower of Buddhist Incense, the wall at Mutianyu, the Western Mansions at the Old Summer Palace and Dingling at the Ming Tombs). The five additional pins were checked against the corresponding English Wikipedia coordinate records on October 14, 2026: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badaling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Museum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Temple_of_Confucius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhengyangmen The Confucius complex pin marks the temple. The Zhengyangmen pin marks its archery tower. Capital Museum means the Xicheng building, not its eastern branch in Tongzhou. The expanded sights scope includes Badaling in Yanqing. Photos, all via Wikimedia Commons hero: EditQ, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Views_of_the_Forbidden_City_from_Jingshan_Park_1.jpg districtsHero: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skyline_of_Beijing_CBD_from_the_southeast_(20210907094201).jpg sightsHero: xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Temple_of_Heaven_-_Hall_of_Prayer_for_Good_Harvests_01.jpg orientation: Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jingshan_View_of_Beijing_CBD_-_Flickr.jpg neighborhoods: Geoff McKim, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beijing_hutong_area_8.jpg history: Nacaru, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiananmen_gate_Chinese_New_Year.jpg architecture: Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drum_Tower,_Viewed_from_Beijing_Bell_Tower_(9867615245).jpg wall: Lloyd Tudor, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Mutianyu_section_of_the_Great_Wall_of_China.jpg transport: P. K. Koo, CC0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Type_DKZ4_Train_of_Beijing_Subway_Line_1,_Jan_1_2024.jpg food: Mr Wabu, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peking_duck_by_Mr_Wabu_in_Beijing.jpg culture: 陈文, CC BY 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Havoc_in_Heaven_Peking_Opera_10.jpg parks: Bjoertvedt, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beihai_Park_IMG_4408_Beihai_Lake_-_Jade_Island_-_white_dagoba.jpg planning: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seventeen_Arch_Bridge_(20201221160537).jpg