Discover 35 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in Shenzhen (China). Don't miss out on these must-see attractions: Mount Wutong, Luohu Commercial City, and Shenzhen Museum. Also, be sure to include Lau Shui Heung Reservoir in your itinerary.
Below, you can find the list of the most amazing places you should visit in Shenzhen (Guangdong).
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Mount Wutong
Also known as: 梧桐山
Mountain in China. Wutong Mountain is a mountain located near the border of Luohu and Yantian in Shenzhen, China. At 943.7m, it is the tallest mountain in Shenzhen. The mountain is also source of the Shenzhen River.[1]
Luohu Commercial City
Also known as: 羅湖商業城
Shopping mall. Luohu Commercial City is an enclosed shopping mall located on the Shenzhen side of the Shenzhen River, right outside the entrance/exit to Luohu Immigration Control Point. Also called "Luohu commercial market", it is popular with Hong Kong residents for cheap counterfeit "as good as original" clothes, merchandise and electronics.[2]
Shenzhen Museum
Also known as: 深圳博物馆
Museum in Shenzhen, China. Shenzhen Museum is a multifunctional modern museum in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It has a total area of 37,000 square meters, and a building area of 18,000 square meters. The museum was established in 1981, but was not formally opened until 1988. It holds more than 20,000 historical and cultural relics, of which the majority originate within the city.
Exhibition halls that are open include the Shenzhen Museum of History and Folk Culture (历史民俗馆) in Civic Center and the Shenzhen Reform and Opening-up Exhibition Hall (深圳改革开放展览馆) in Futian District and the Dongjiang River Guerrilla Command Headquarters Memorial Museum (东江游击队指挥部旧址纪念馆) in Luohu District. As of 2019 Shenzhen Museum of Ancient Art (古代艺术馆) in Futian District is not open to the public.[3]
Address: Jintian Rd Entrance, Shenzhen Civic Centre, Futian District (福田区市民中心东座), Shenzhen
Lau Shui Heung Reservoir
Reservoir in Hong Kong. Lau Shui Heung Reservoir, built in 1968 as part of the Plover Cove Reservoir engineering programme, is a reservoir located within the boundary of Pat Sin Leng Country Park in the eastern part of North District, New Territories, Hong Kong, located at the northeast area of Bird's Hill, at the northeast end of Sheung Shui-Fanling Plain. It covers an area of 3.5 hectares and a water storage capacity of 170,000 m3. It is responsible for collecting water from the northwestern part of Pat Sin Leng and supplying it to the Plover Cove Reservoir through a water conveyance tunnel, while Lau Shui Heung Reservoir is an irrigation reservoir used to irrigate nearby farmland. The Lau Shui Heung Country Trail passes through the reservoir. The main concrete dam is 24 m high and 54.9 m long, the secondary dam is 7.3 m high and 39 m long and the scale of the reservoir is small. The reservoir is the main source of Kwan Tei River, and the water from the reservoir flows into Kwan Tei and then the Ng Tung River.[4]
Minsk World
Also known as: 明斯克航母世界
Theme park. Minsk World was a military theme park located in Dapeng Bay, Shatoujiao, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It includes the former Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk, redesigned as a tourist attraction. The theme park opened on 10 May 2000. As of 2005, it had attracted more than five million visitors and generated 450 million yuan in revenue. The park closed in February 2016 and the aircraft carrier was moved to Zhoushan for repairs, after which it would be moved to another theme park in Nantong, Jiangsu.[5]
Safari Park
Zoo in Shenzhen, China. Shenzhen Safari Park is a zoo in Shenzhen, China. It is located in near Xili Lake in Xili Subdistrict. and covers an area of 1.2 million square meters. It is the first zoo in China to have uncaged animals. There are over 300 species and more than ten thousand animals in the zoo, including endangered ones such as Giant Pandas and South China tigers.[6]
Address: Xili Road, Nanshan District (南山区西丽路; Nánshān qū Xīlì Lù), Shenzhen
Mount Yangtai
Also known as: 羊台山
Mountain in China. The Mount Yangtai also known as Mount Yangtai Forest Park, is a mountain at the junction of Bao'an District and Nanshan District in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The peak is 587.3 metres in elevation, which is the highest peak in western Shenzhen. In 2008 The mount is rated as one of the eight scenic spots of Shenzhen by the Shenzhen government.[7]
Nantou Ancient City Museum
Museum in Shenzhen, China. Nantou Ancient City Museum is a museum in Nantou, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Built within the former government house of Bao'an County, the museum has two stories and three halls, displaying historical artifacts across the former county. It is opened 09:30-17:30 every day with no admission fee. The museum was opened in September 2004.
Public transport: Travelers can take bus route 105, bus route 201, etc to go to Nantou ancient city museum p[8]
Lotus Hill
Also known as: 莲花山
City park in Shenzhen, China. Lianhuashan Park is a hill and urban park in Shenzhen, China, inaugurated in 1997. It is located at the northern end of the Futian Central Business District and covers an area of 150 hectares. It is within walking distance from Children's Palace Station of the Shenzhen Metro.[9]
Shenzhen Mosque
Mosque in Shenzhen, China. The Shenzhen Mosque is a mosque in Futian District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China.[10]
Address: No. 7, Meilin Road, Futian District, Shenzhen
Minghua
Ship. Minghua, formerly MV Ancerville, is a 1962 French liner later converted to a cruise ship. Now landlocked, she is the centerpiece of the Sea World development in Shekou, Shenzhen, China.[11]
San Tin
San Tin is a loosely defined area in Yuen Long District in New Territories, Hong Kong that is part of the San Tin constituency. Unlike Hong Kong's highly urbanised areas, San Tin is sparsely populated due to its marshlands.
San Tin is located near Lok Ma Chau. The San Tin Public Transport Interchange services the Lok Ma Chau Control Point–Huanggang Port border crossing, the only 24 hour border crossing between Hong Kong and mainland China.[12]
Bride's Pool
Also known as: 新娘潭
Stream pool in Hong Kong. Bride's Pool is a stream pool with several waterfalls in northeastern New Territories, Hong Kong near Tai Mei Tuk. Mirror Pool is also located nearby.[13]
University Town of Shenzhen
University Town of Shenzhen is a tertiary education hub or university cluster, located near Xili Lake in the Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. The 15,000-capacity University Town Stadium, which is used mostly for football, is located in the University Town of Shenzhen.[14]
Kai Kung Leng
Kai Kung Leng is a mountain range in Lam Tsuen Country Park, New Territories, Hong Kong.[15]
Lo Wu Bridge
Also known as: 羅湖橋
Footbridge. The Lo Wu Bridge is a footbridge and steel railway truss bridge across Sham Chun River linking Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
Due to the course of widening the river section at Lo Wu, it is necessary to reconstruct the Lo Wu railway bridge as its span is not long enough for the widened river section. The old Lo Wu railway bridge has been relocated downstream in September 2003 to facilitate the construction of a new bridge for the widened Shenzhen River Lo Wu section. Owing to its historical value, the old rail bridge will be preserved as a monument on the bank of the Sham Chun River adjacent to the Lo Wu station. The whole bridge was relocated without any change of the existing features, and the shifting of the bridge across the existing railway line was the most difficult part of the operation. The government said damage to the existing bridge structure will be minimal.
A smaller truss bridge now carries rail traffic between Lo Wu Control Point/Lo Wu station with Luohu station.
The current Lo Wu pedestrian bridge is an enclosed 2-storey walkway and replaced a partially covered pedestrian walkway built in 1985 and another truss bridge so pedestrians need not cross the border over the tracks.[16]
Hong Kong–Shenzhen Western Corridor
Also known as: 深港西部通道
Cable-stayed bridge. The Hong Kong–Shenzhen Western Corridor, also known for the main component Shenzhen Bay Bridge, is a cross-border highway between Shenzhen, Guangdong Province and Hong Kong. The highway bridge is a 5.5-kilometre dual three-lane controlled-access highway. It connects Ngau Hom Shek, Hong Kong, to Dongjiaotou, which is administratively located in Nanshan District of Shenzhen. The corridor also had other components, a border checkpoint Shenzhen Bay Port, built on reclaimed land, as well as roads that connect the corridor to the existing road network of Shenzhen.
The highway bridge is part of Route 10 of the Hong Kong trunk road numbering system, the only other existing part being the Kong Sham Western Highway, formerly known as Deep Bay Link. The Shenzhen section of the Corridor, was also included as the extension of the S3 Guangshen Riverbank Expressway since circa 2010.[17]
Fairy Lake Botanical Garden
Also known as: 仙湖植物园
Fairylake Botanical Garden or Xianhu Botanical Garden is a 1,349.20-acre botanical garden and arboretum located at Liantang Subdistrict, Luohu District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Fairylake Botanical Garden at the foot of Wutong Mountain, beside the Shenzhen Reservoir. Fairylake Botanical Garden was categorized as a "national AAAA level tourist site" by the China National Tourism Administration in 2007 and a "national key park" by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development in 2008.[18]
Address: Lian Shi Rd, Lian Tang Rd., Luohu District 罗湖区莲塘村莲十路, Shenzhen
Shenzhen Bay Park
Shenzhen Bay Park is a seaside urban park in Shenzhen, China.
The park occupies a 13-kilometre long stretch of reclaimed land along the southern coast of Shenzhen on the north shore of Shenzhen Bay (Deep Bay), starting west near Shenzhen Bay Bridge at Wanghai road and ending at the Hongshulin Nature Reserve. It spans much of the coastline of Nanshan and Futian districts. It runs along much of the length of Binhai and Binhe Boulevards and occupies an area of 108．07 hectares (267.0518 acres).
The park is divided into two sections, namely Shenzhen Bay Coastal Recreation Zone (深圳湾滨海休闲带) at its South West side and Hongshulin Coastal Ecological Park (红树林海滨生态公园) at its Eastern side. The latter is situated within the Hongshulin Nature Reserve, a habitat of numerous endangered bird species and is also known for its mangrove.
The entire area of the park opened on August 6, 2011, days before the 2011 Summer Universiade that took place in Shenzhen. The Hongshulin Coastal Ecological Park was opened earlier in December 2000. The entire length of the park is motor vehicle-free. Cycle paths and picnic spaces are featured along the park. The park offers a panoramic view covering the Shenzhen skyline and New Territories, Hong Kong.[19]
Jiangsu Tower
Skyscraper in Shenzhen, China. Jiangsu Tower is a 208 meter high skyscraper in the City of Shenzhen, Guangdong, the People's Republic of China. The Tower was opened in 2001, near Shenzhen Children Hospital, Lianhuashan Park and Shenzhen Municipal People's Government at Civic Centre.[20]
Plover Cove Reservoir
Also known as: 船灣淡水湖
Reservoir in Hong Kong. Plover Cove Reservoir, located within Plover Cove Country Park, in the northeastern New Territories, is the largest reservoir in Hong Kong in terms of area, and the second-largest in terms of volume. It is the world's first freshwater coastal lake constructed from an arm of the ocean. Its main dam, which disconnected Plover Cove from the sea, was one of the largest in the world at the time of its construction.[21]
Ching Chung Koon
Also known as: 青松觀
Taoist temple in Hong Kong. Ching Chung Koon is a Taoist Temple and active Taoist organisation located in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong.[22]
Address: 8 Tsing Chung Path, Shenzhen (屯门区)
Miu Fat Buddhist Monastery
Also known as: 妙法寺
Monastery. Miu Fat Buddhist Monastery is a Buddhist monastery located in Lam Tei, Tuen Mun District, Hong Kong. Based on the principle of practising mercy, it has been actively organizing activities to promote Buddhism as well as education, culture, charity and welfare for years.[23]
Address: 18 Castle Peak Road, Tuen Mun, Shenzhen (屯门区)
Guanlan Renmin Park
Guanlan Renmin Park is a public, urban park in Longhua District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Situated in Guanlan Subdistrict, the park is bordered by Meiguan Expressway on the East, Bilan Road on the West, Buxin Road on the North, and Guanlan Park Road on the South. In 1993 the park was officially opened to the public. It covers an area of 163,000-square-metre, of which green area of 39,000-square-metre. The park is used for recreational activities, such as dancing, singing, walking, and gathering.[24]
Shun Hing Square
Also known as: 信興廣場
Skyscraper in Shenzhen, China. Shun Hing Square, also known as "Di Wang Tower" is a 384-meter -tall skyscraper in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China.[25]
Chiwan
Chiwan is a bay area surrounded by Chiwan hill at the east, Xiaonanshan hill at the north, and Ying Zui hill at the southeast, in Nanshan district, Shenzhen, China.[26]
Pak Tai To Yan
Mountain in Hong Kong. Pak Tai To Yan is a mountain in northern Hong Kong near Fanling. It is close to a similarly named peak called Tai To Yan. Pak Tai To Yan is 480 metres tall.[27]
Ping An International Finance Centre
Also known as: 平安金融中心
Prominent skyscraper for dramatic views. The Ping An Finance Center is a 115-story, 599 m supertall skyscraper in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The building was commissioned by Ping An Insurance and designed by the American architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. It was completed in 2017, becoming the tallest building in Shenzhen, the 2nd tallest building in China and the 4th tallest building in the world. It also broke the record of having the highest observation deck in a building at 562 m.[28]
Dafen Village
Also known as: 大芬村
Dafen is a suburb of Buji, Longgang, Shenzhen, in the province of Guangdong, China. Since 1989, the area has been an artists' village for the production of replicas of masterworks and outsourcing of original art creation as a specialised urban cottage industry.[29]
Address: Laowei East 3rd Alley, 511700 Shenzhen Shi
Robin's Nest
Also known as: 紅花嶺
Hill in Hong Kong. Robin's Nest is a hill located in northeastern Hong Kong, south of the border between Hong Kong and Shenzhen in the New Territories. Robin's Nest is the 55th tallest hill in Hong Kong.
The name Hung Fa Leng (紅花嶺) does not translate directly as 'Robin's Nest' but as 'Red Flower Ridge'.
In 2017, the Hong Kong Government announced that it was planning to designate the area as a country park, called Robin's Nest Country Park. This proposed designation was made in June 2019. As of 2021, the final legislative work on the designation is still in progress.[30]
Plover Cove Country Park
Also known as: 船灣郊野公園
Park in Hong Kong. Plover Cove Country Park is a country park in Hong Kong located in the Northeastern New Territories. The original country park was established on 7 April 1978, covering 4,594 hectares of natural terrain in the administrative North District and Tai Po District. A northern extension to the park, Plover Cove Country Park, was designated on 1 June 1979, covering the Double Haven islets and Ping Chau.[31]
Hok Tau Reservoir
Reservoir in Hong Kong. Hok Tau Reservoir is a small S-shaped reservoir situated in the northeastern New Territories, Hong Kong. The Tan Shan River flows through the reservoir and eventually empties into the Ng Tung River. The reservoir can be accessed by Stage 9 of the Wilson Trail or by the Hok Tau Reservoir Family Walk.
It is within the borders of Pat Sin Leng Country Park and the family trail has many barbecue sites adjacent to the reservoir.[32]
Wong Leng
Also known as: 黃嶺
Wong Leng is on section 9 of the Wilson Trail in Pat Sin Leng Country Park, Hong Kong. It is 639 metres tall.[33]
Minsk World
Also known as: 明斯克號航空母艦
Aircraft carrier. Minsk is an aircraft carrier that served the Soviet Navy and the Russian Navy from 1978 to 1994. She was the second Kiev-class vessel to be built.
From 2000 to 2016 it was a theme park known as Minsk World in Shatoujiao, Yantian, Shenzhen, China.
In April 2016, Minsk was towed to Jiangsu for exhibition.[34]
Tai Fu Tai Mansion
Also known as: 新田大夫第
Heritage building in Hong Kong. Tai Fu Tai Mansion is a residence located in Wing Ping Tsuen, San Tin near Lok Ma Chau, north of Yuen Long, Hong Kong.[35]
Address: The New Territories, Shenzhen (元朗区)