Tianjin Shi Trip Overview
This walking tour will show you some of the city’s hidden historic gems. Learn about the businesses and people that made Tianjin (Tientsin) a bustling trading city and unique world city when the British, French and many other nations had a home in this important Chinese port city.
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Tianjin Shi, China
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Tianjin Shi, Tianjin Shi, China
This walking tour will show you some of the city’s hidden historic gems. Learn about the businesses and people that made Tianjin (Tientsin) a bustling trading city and unique world city when the British, French and many other nations had a home in this important Chinese port city.
Itinerary
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Pass By: Jiefang Bridge, Between Jiefang North Road and Sanjing Road, Tianjin China
We start at the historic Jiefang Bridge and pass along Tianjin’s old “Bank Street” seeing many old majestic buildings from the early 1900s including banks, churches and military buildings. It’s a real taste of colonial Tianjin from more than a century ago.
Pass By: Chinese Museum of Finance, No.29 Jiefang North Road, Heping District, Tianjin 300041 China
Before becoming the Museum of Finance, the building was home to French Club in the 1930s. Get a glimpse of the Art Deco architecture of the period.
Pass By: The Orignal Site of Astor Hotel, No.199 Jiefang North Road, Heping District, Tianjin 301508 China
This hotel was home to famous visitors like Charlie Chaplin and Herbert Hoover and has been restored to its former glory.
Pass By: Consulate in Puppet Manchuria Site, No.26 Munan Avenue, Tianjin China
A stately mansion that was home to diplomats of the short lived country of Manchuguo.
Stop At: Five Great Avenues, Stadium Street, Heping District, Tianjin 300050 China
Stroll through Tianjin’s ‘Garden District’ and see the old villas and row houses built in the 1920s and 1930s and were home to Chinese and Europeans alike.
Duration: 30 minutes
Pass By: Former Residence of Sun Dianying, No.20-22 Munan Avenue, Heping District, Tianjin China
If you like bad guys, this home belonged to one. Learn about how one Chinese general grabbed the gold and signaled the end of respect for the former imperial lines in one act.
Stop At: Qing Wang Fu, No.55 Chongqing Road, Heping District, Tianjin 300050 China
Peek inside the former home of a powerful Eunuch who found refuge and power in Tianjin after the fall of the Qing Empire.
Duration: 30 minutes
