#Jiangsu Garden Expo Park Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jun)
#7 of Family-friendly Attractions in Nanjing
Gardens
Address:
江蘇省南京市江寧區湯山街道聖湖路8號
Opening times:
Opens at 09:00-18:00Open
Recommended sightseeing time:
0.5-1 day
Phone:
4008116363
Red wall folding dream, Nanjing Treasure Museum
📍Location: No. 8 Shenghu Road, Tangshan Street
🎫Tickets: Free
⏰Tour Duration: 1 hour
🚗Self-driving: You can go to the outside of the 2nd gate of the Garden Expo Park, there are plenty of parking spaces nearby.
🌏Introduction: The Nanjing Garden Expo Park Treasure Museum is designed by the famous designer Zhang Lei, using weather-resistant rusted metal plates, combined with the topography to form a folded geometric building. The appearance is simple and unique, it is a museum that combines art and natural landscape.
📷Photo check-in:
1. The folded geometry of the building's exterior, through the light and shadow effect of the sunlight.
2. The stairway to heaven, showing the linear layout and sense of space of the building.
3. The rooftop garden, where you can shoot the mines and cable cars in the Garden Expo Park.
📝tips:
1. The best shooting time in the morning and afternoon, the light and shadow effect is the most outstanding.
2. You can enjoy the beautiful scenery in the Garden Expo Park on the rooftop garden, don't miss this opportunity.
3. Understand the temporary closure information of the museum in advance to avoid inconvenience.
LILLIAN LITTLE
Hilltop Coffee Shop ☕️ | Nanjing
ONE STEP coffee bar and restaurant is located inside Nanjing Garden Expo park in Tangshan.
The coffee shop has a nice stunning view of the park with a rooftop deck for 📸. They serve coffee, tea, and food.
How to get there? 🤔
🚘 🚖 Take a didi/taxi to Nanjing Ecological park and get off at BeiAnMen.
📝note: There’s an entrance fee to get inside the park which is 49¥ (I went around 4:30pm, the park closes at 6pm). On regular days and holidays, entrance fee cost 158¥.
If you book a hotel inside the park, entrance is free.😉
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miSs JM
Nanjing outdoor ice skating ⛸️
📍Located inside Nanjing Expo Garden in Tangshan
🚖: 汤山镇圣湖路8号
🎟️: Entrance to the park is 158¥ for adults that includes a 90mins free ice skating ticket.
📝: children below 120cm are free to enter the park.
⛸️: 80¥ for kids to ice skate
Inside the park you can ride a cable car to see the beautiful view of the mountain.
🚠: 60¥/person 1 way ride
🚌: mini bus costs 20¥ each ride
🏨: Westin Resort, Nanjing Autograph hotel, Voco and Hotel Indigo are located inside the Expo Garden.
tips:
1. If you booked the hotel, you don’t need to pay to enter the park.
2. If you’re a foreigner, bring your passport to buy a ticket at the ticket booth.
3. The park is big with only limited options for food and drinks, bringing snacks and water is highly recommended.
⏰: Opening hours - Mon to Sun 9:00am-8:00pm
(during the Spring festival)
Regular days - 9:00am-5:00pm (Sun-Thurs)
9:00am-8:00pm (Fri & Sat)
Have fun! 😎
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miSs JM
Jiangsu Garden Expo Park Ultimate Guide.
Jiangsu Garden Expo Park Ultimate Guide. 1⃣️ 13 Classic City Parks
Must-visit Nanjing Garden's Jingyang Tower, climb the tower to get a full view of the park.
2⃣️ Zidong Pavilion
Jinling's scenic spot, climb the pavilion to see the surrounding mountains.
3⃣️ Iconic 'Nanjing Time'
Each of the three sides has a clock, symbolizing the past, present, and future, with music playing on the hour.
4⃣️ Four Major Flower 🌸 Valleys (Cliffside Flower Valley, Time Art Valley, Su Yunhui Valley, Yun Chi Dream Valley) among which Yun Chi Dream Valley offers a more stunning visual effect.
5⃣️ Underwater
Magnificent water mist landscape.
6️⃣ Black 🐴 Horse World Comic Museum, Camera Art Museum, Coca-Cola Brand Museum, Olfactory Art Museum, optional check-ins.
xinyouTravel
Nanjing locals are really tight-lipped about such a beautiful place, never revealing it
If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe that Nanjing has such a colorful treasure spot🎉🏞️...
The weather is so nice, the sunshine🌝 is soft, the tender green leaves🍃🍃, the emerald green grass, the rose-red maple leaves🍁🍁...
And the brightly colored azaleas🌸, moon grass🍀, roses... covering the mountains and dyeing the forests, so beautiful it takes your breath away🏞️~
Such a beautiful🎑 place and it's not even crowded!
There are elegant Chinese gardens, as well as rugged industrial relics🏗️
And the natural scenery🏞️ of mountains, water, and grasslands... It's comfortable no matter how you explore it~
🏞️Attraction: Jiangsu Garden Expo Park
📍⛳️Location: No. 8 Shenghu Road, Tangshan Town, Jiangning District, Nanjing
🚗Transportation:
For non-drivers🚇 take the Metro Line 4 to Mengbei Station, and then take a taxi.
🚗For drivers, navigate to Dongningmen Parking Lot🅿️ or Jinxiumen Parking Lot
👇【Touring Tips】📝
The park is large, it is recommended to buy a shuttle ticket🎫 for those with children👶🏻 and the elderly, as it allows access to all attractions~
There are also cable cars🚡 and vintage trains🚞 to experience in the park~ If you're fit, you can walk the whole way🚶🏻♂️, stop and go, and finish the tour in one day~
🍀☘️The Garden Expo Park is divided into Cliffside Flower Valley, Time Art Valley, Su Yun Hui Valley, and Cloud Pool Dream Valley~
1️⃣Su Yun Hui Valley
♦️Named after the thirteen gardens of Jiangsu🌴🌲🌳🌿, each garden is designed with the characteristics of its city🏙️, suitable for wearing Hanfu👘 and taking photos~
♦️During the May Day period, there are rich and interesting events, 'Flower God Garden Party' is quite romantic, with twelve flower gods performing stories among the Chinese gardens, and at night you can watch a sparkler🎆 performance~
2️⃣Time Art Valley
♠️Converted from a cement factory site, the overall design is very industrial, with avant-garde bookstores📚, various museums🕌, and time warehouses, etc.
♠️I really like the avant-garde bookstore📕 here, which has been transformed from an abandoned silo into circular bookshelves, and the photos📸 look great~
♠️Strolling through the market, outdoor camping🏕️ feels so relaxing~
3️⃣Cloud Pool Dream Valley
♣️The floating stone palace has a more sci-fi look, standing under the dome, looking👀 at the cliff buildings in the distance, taking photos📸 is also quite impressive~
♣️The underwater botanical garden🌴🌳🍀 used to be a very deep mine, walking on the cliff edge🐾, with the sound of water trickling overhead and the fragrance of flowers🌹 around, it feels wonderful~
4️⃣Cliffside Flower Valley
♥️There's a huge Hug Hug Paradise🎡 with a variety of attractions, kids can play all day💃🏻
Benjamin.Bell.79
Nanjing is so romantic, witnessing the millennium-old intangible cultural heritage of iron flower fireworks
Nanjing really has a firm grasp on Chinese-style romance. The stars have not faded, the fire 🔥 has not ceased, and in the moment when the colorful splendor scatters across the sky, I feel as if I have traveled through a thousand years and finally understand the meaning of using this as a blessing in ancient times!
In addition, the scenic area not only has 2.45 million square meters of Jiangsu garden landscape, restoring the ancient charm of Song Dynasty culture, but also integrates modern cultural and creative design. If you don't know where to go during the holidays, I highly recommend the Garden Expo Park!
✅ Travel Tips:
The whole scenic area is very large, with many attractions and activities, so it won't feel too crowded even during the May Day holiday. There are various stations set up between the attractions, and you can take a bus 🚌 to get there.
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1️⃣ Iron Flower Fireworks Performance
Melt iron at temperatures above 1600 degrees into molten iron, and in an instant, the iron flowers splash around, a romantic journey through a thousand years, both beautiful and magnificent, truly worthy of being an intangible cultural heritage performance!
After that, there are romantic fireworks 🎆, blooming one after another in the night sky, definitely worth the price of admission!
👉 Performance time: 19:00 (occasionally changes, will be broadcast)
2️⃣ Flower God Garden Performance
There are Flower God performances every day until May 25th. The twelve Flower Gods come to celebrate spring, performing various wonderful stories among the flowers, making one dream back to a thousand years ago!!
👉 Show times: 10:30-17:35
There are many performances throughout the day, at different times and locations. When you arrive, you can first check the performance schedule, plan your time accordingly. I watched the afternoon show in the Nanjing Garden.
3️⃣ Spring Camping 🏕️
There is a camping area in the Time Art Valley, with barbecue BBQ available for direct ordering, freshly grilled for eating, and there is also an outdoor live music scene to enjoy, quite pleasant.
If you are with children, there is also a children's play area, a small train station, a pioneer bookstore, etc., where you can easily spend an entire afternoon.
4️⃣ Garden and Wild Market
Trunk markets, delicious snacks, creative stalls... Strolling and eating is just too suitable for spring!
5️⃣ Hug Paradise
Suitable for family fun, a super large outdoor children's play area with many activities, it feels like the kids won't want to leave once they come.
Actually, one day is not enough to fully enjoy the place. If you have enough time, you can play for another day. There are also several star-rated hotels inside, and it seems that cars can be driven in for accommodation.
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📍 Address: Jiangsu Garden Expo Park
🎫 Ticket: Day ticket starts from 106r for adults, 60r for the elderly and children; night ticket 83r; ticket + cable car starts from 135r.
⏰ Business hours: 09:00-21:00
JOCELYN RYAN
How to play in Jiangsu Garden Expo Park? This article is all you need
Jiangsu Garden Expo Park can be said to be a very worthwhile spot to visit in Nanjing, suitable for all ages. Please put on a pair of comfortable shoes, and let's go through this Garden Expo Park guide together before setting off!
👍Must-visit attractions:
1️⃣ Yun Chi Dream Valley:
The underwater botanical garden is amazing, and it's relatively cool because of the roof.
The viewing platform also offers a great view, with the beauty of mountains and plains all in sight.
2️⃣ Time Art Valley:
The avant-garde bookstore is a must-visit in Nanjing. The one in the park is small but exquisite, it's just that there are too few books.
3️⃣ Floating Stone Palace:
Passing through the palace, there is a long escalator that leads to the viewing platform. The Yi Chi Garden Restaurant on top is quite nice, with beautiful scenery and good taste.
4️⃣ Su Yun Hui Valley:
Gathering 13 gardens of Jiangsu, every floor and pavilion is a scene! The garden pavilions under the evening sky and lights have a different charm.
5️⃣ Flame Encounter Fireworks Show:
It's said to be beautiful, but we didn't see it. If anyone has experienced it, can you tell me if this 🎆 is worth watching?
Transportation:
🚗 Drive to any parking lot of the Garden Expo Park 🅿️,
🚇 Take the subway line 2 to Maqun Station Exit 2, and take the Garden Expo Park shuttle bus
You can buy tickets in advance or on-site 🉑️, almost no need to queue
⚠️ On weekends, because of the fireworks show, you need to buy tickets that include the fireworks show, and if you leave the park before six o'clock in the afternoon, you can get a refund for the difference at the ticket office.
🎫Ticket prices:
Adult ticket: 120/person
Elderly, children, students: 60/person
Fireworks show: 228/person
Online ticket purchases are more favorable, we only spent 90💰 on weekend tickets.
⭕️ It is still recommended to buy a transportation package inside the park, the prices are all on the picture, we bought the shuttle bus + one-way cable car + unlimited train rides, 129💰, it's quite time-saving and effort-saving to take the vehicle to each attraction when the weather is hot, and the park is too big, it's really tiring to walk.
Pay attention to the shuttle bus route to avoid waiting for the bus or taking the wrong bus and wasting time.
tip suggestions:
For accommodation, you can choose hotels in or near the park, if possible, you can directly stay inside the park, which is more convenient for visiting, and you will have more time. There are many children's play facilities inside the park, it's less crowded and more relaxing. If you stay outside the park, you can just go early in the morning and play for one day.
JourneyingNomadic
When I take my child to the Garden Expo, I only go to this one place
Speaking of outdoor amusement parks in Nanjing without mechanical rides, the Garden Expo's Bao Bao Paradise must be mentioned. I bought the Jiangning Travel Pass mainly for the four visits to the Garden Expo just to take my child here, oh right, and also to catch the lantern festival once. The recent New Year lantern festival at night is quite nice, and there's also the molten iron fireworks show🔥
✨ Bao Bao Paradise itself is free, you just need to buy a ticket for the Garden Expo🎫
✨ The area is very large, with many attractions, and the slides are probably the longest in Nanjing
✨ There is a restaurant and a gender-neutral restroom nearby, which is very convenient👍🏻
✨ It's recommended to bring your own sand play tools, and you can play all day long with friends
🚗 Transportation: If you're driving, definitely park at the Jinxiu Gate‼️ There is a large free parking area, turn right after entering the gate and go uphill, and you'll arrive in a few minutes by foot~
Stick to the great outdoors every week, eat well, sleep well, and take advantage of the good weather to bring your child here
Dr. Rolando Fritsch
Nanjing Garden Expo Park
A one-day tour guide to Nanjing Garden Expo Park is available for your reference
🌺Before you go: The Garden Expo Park is huge❗️It's practically impossible to walk through it all~ The weather is getting hotter and hotter🥵If you're planning to visit, be sure to bring a sun umbrella, apply sunscreen, or else you'll get a lot darker when you get home.
The main attractions in the Garden Expo Park are the gardens❗️It includes 13 city exhibition gardens such as Nanjing Garden, Wuxi Garden, Suzhou Garden, Yangzhou Garden, Xuzhou Garden, Changzhou Garden, Nantong Garden, Huaian Garden, Yancheng Garden, Taizhou Garden, Zhenjiang Garden, Suqian Garden, and Lianyungang Garden👏🏻With different pavilions and buildings, you can appreciate the beautiful Jiangsu.
🌿Jiangsu Garden Expo Park
💰Ticket: 50 yuan
🅿️Parking: Free (There are many parking lots, but they are a bit far from the entrance, so there's a bit of walking. It's recommended to park in the No.1 parking lot which is closer to the entrance).
🚌It is suggested to take the shuttle bus inside the park, which is now at a ⭕half price✌🏻️✌🏻️
Shuttle sightseeing bus: 15 yuan/person (The shuttle bus will take you to various sightseeing spots, there are both buses and double-decker sightseeing buses available, and you can ride them multiple times without limit)
Train ticket: 30 yuan/person (Unfortunately, the train was under maintenance when we went there, but Xiuxiu and her grandparents took it a few days ago and had a great time, it's suitable for children).
💚Attractions worth visiting
Not all areas of the park are open now, so the prices are also half off, just visit the ones that are open
【Thirteen Gardens including Nanjing Garden, Suzhou Garden】
✔️Nanjing Garden has restored Nanjing's Jinyang Tower, which is very impressive. Compared to other gardens, Nanjing Garden is quite large and the architecture is more distinctive, a must-visit for people from Nanjing
✔️Suzhou Garden is also highly recommended. As a Suzhou native, I'm very familiar with gardens, and I must say the reproduction is very successful. Suzhou Garden obviously has more garden characteristics and charm than the other gardens.
I also visited Wuxi Garden, Zhenjiang Garden, and Yangzhou Garden. It would be quite exhausting to visit all thirteen! I decisively gave up~ I also suggest that you choose a few gardens that interest you to visit and then take your time to enjoy them🤔
In addition, there are 【Pioneer Bookstore】【Black Horse World Comic Museum】【Coca-Cola Brand Pavilion】worth checking out.
💚Food
There are not many food options in the park, only KFC, coco, and Seven Sweet, which is quite inconvenient, so it's recommended to bring your own food into the park, otherwise it's not convenient to buy food.
Ophelia_Blackwooden-66
#cherryblossom2024 very pleasantly surprised to find this hidden gem in Nanjing. Underground garden and all the beautiful architects are must see. Highly recommend to anyone who are traveling nanjing/ Jiangsu, China.N
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CapturingTheTreasures
Listen to the advice! Nanjing departure, Tangshan Hot Spring Winter Dream Self-driving Tour Guide
Planning to meet with long-lost friends, briefly escape from urban life, winter is the best season for hot springs, we agreed to start from Nanjing, start a winter dream self-driving journey!
【My Itinerary】
DAY1
Jiangsu Garden Expo Park——Tangshan Fangshan Geological Park Museum——Ape Man Cave——Tangshan Mine Park——Starry Sky Restaurant——Enjoy private soup at Tangshan Yitang Hot Spring Hotel
DAY2
Jinwu Hot Spring Park——She Village——Stay in She Village
DAY3
Niushou Mountain——Jinling Town
【Travel Highlights】
Tangshan Mine Park
As soon as we got off the high-speed rail, we went straight to Tangshan. The Pioneer Bookstore in the Mine Park is very suitable for checking in, and it is indeed the case.
The park retains the original style and terrain of the mine, and the industrial style is full.
This used to be a quarry, so a part of the quarry mountain body is retained, which is also suitable for the popular camping.
✨Pioneer Bookstore
The bookstore here is a mine style. Its red brick exterior wall matches the cylindrical appearance and the mine theme. It is also very photogenic inside, and you can become a literary youth in minutes.
The bookstore has two floors, the first floor is the book buying area and the cafe, and the second floor is the reading area, with a large staircase for taking pictures.
⭐️Tangshan Fangshan Geological Museum
The first floor is the ticket office and some cultural and creative products, and there will also be some temporary exhibitions.
The second floor is the formal exhibition part, the stratigraphic scriptures—Nanjing’s six hundred million years of biological evolution and the environmental changes of Nanjing Tangshan, which detailedly introduces the secrets of geological structure, and there is also a place for children to dig sand for archaeology. The third floor is the origin of Nanjing erectus, and there is also an exhibition hall about the history of Tangshan hot springs.
Tracing back the evolution of life in the Nanjing area over the past 600 million years, I have always liked to check in at the museum, highly recommended.
⭐️Ape Man Cave
The Ape Man Cave is very close to the Geological Museum, parking is free, and travel is super convenient.
It takes a little walk from the entrance of the scenic spot to the cave. The inside is a different world. It is said that the cave is 18 degrees Celsius all year round. The interior is a strangely shaped stalactite, as if it has come to the center of the earth, and there are purple and blue light decorations, which are very atmospheric.
Jinling Town
Who would have thought that there is a hidden treasure antique town near Niushou Mountain, Jinling Town is very suitable for taking Hanfu photos, in fact, it is more suitable for taking night scenes here, when the lights are on, it is a romantic and elegant wonderland.
Niushou Mountain
I chose to offer incense between work and school, and the holy place of prayer that I have been thinking about for a long time—Nanjing Niushou Mountain,
Today's wish is fulfilled!
⭐️Private soup time
Tangshan is also called the hometown of hot springs. This time our highlight is soaking in the soup. We chose Yitang Hot Spring Hotel, which has both outdoor hot spring pools to see the ancient buildings of Jinwu Hot Spring Park, and courtyard private soup in the guest room.
The outdoor hot spring pool can see the sunset, and there is an infinity pool outside the hot spring pool. Isn't this the ins style, put on a new swimsuit, and you can show off your figure in the bloated winter.
PassportStampCollector*333
Nanjing Garden Expo Park | Lights of Tangshan, National Trend Lantern Festival, a perfect combination of classic and trend
Spent the 23rd New Year's Eve with my parents in the Garden Expo Park
As a Nanjing native, it was my first time to visit the Garden Expo Park
The park is really big
It's a pity that I didn't make a good strategy before I went
I missed a lot
We entered the park from the Jinxiu Gate, where there is a free parking lot
The first thing we saw was the Time Art Valley - the most artistic area
There are pioneer bookstores, Coca-Cola Museum, Time Post Office, etc.
Further inside is the Su Yun Hui Valley - the most antique area
It is the famous Jiangsu Thirteen Gardens
The Nanjing Garden replicates the Nanjing Jingyang Tower, which is impressive
I didn't see any difference in the other gardens
The National Trend Lantern Festival is in the Time Art Valley
We came back to see the lantern festival after visiting the gardens
The lantern festival was very exciting, with a DJ singing Rap
It was very much like a large-scale disco scene
Unfortunately, the weather was too cold, and we left before the New Year's Eve
I must make a good strategy before I come to the Garden Expo Park again
FELICITY NORMAN
Nanjing's newly popular folding museum | The stunning 'Gate of Sky' for instant photography
| The stunning 'Gate of Sky' for instant photography. Take advantage of the few people around, hurry up and rush with your secretary who can take pictures!
It's really a newly popular photography spot that is unknown to many! When I found it, there were very few people posting about it online~ However, when I got to the scene, it was more like a secret spot in the 'uninhabited area'!
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📸Location: Nanjing Garden Expo Park Treasure Museum
🎫Ticket: None
📍Address: No. 8 Shenghu Road, Tangshan Street, Jiangning District, Nanjing
⚠No need to enter the Garden Expo Park~~ It's just outside the gate
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A masterpiece by the famous designer Zhang Lei!
Diagonal cut corners, 1.5 square meters of rust-red staggered architecture,
The winding folding walls are all photography spots,
The changing light and shadow, the linearly arranged green plants,
The open sunken courtyard, the landscape-style 'roof garden'...
With the blue sky and white clouds, the photos taken will blow up in minutes~
Seraphina_Blackthorne_73
Unfortunately my time was short and couldn’t enjoy everything at this amazing place that I would recommend everyone to explore. I’ll be back soon 😎