[2025 Tangshan Attraction] Travel Guide for Kailuan National Mine Park (Updated Feb)

Save time on transportation + free attractions + delicious food without breaking the bank, this guide offers the "best value for money" 🚄【Transportation: Departing from Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, arrive in 1 hour!】 Beijing/Tianjin → Tangshan - High-speed rail: Beijing South → Tangshan Station (1 hour, ¥44), Tianjin West → Tangshan Station (37 minutes, ¥28). Frequent departures from 7am, even office workers can rush there after work! - Self-driving: Direct access via Jingha Expressway (2.5 hours from Beijing, 1.5 hours from Tianjin). Recommended navigation: Nanhu Park Gate 6 parking lot, free parking + direct access to the park entrance! City transportation: Shared e-bikes + buses (scan the Alipay QR code). Travel between attractions within 10 minutes by bike, saving money and looking cool! -🌆【Attractions: A hardcore romance through time】 1. A flower of life blooming from the ruins - Tangshan Earthquake Ruins Memorial Park - Highlights: Preserved factory ruins from the 1976 earthquake, cracked ground, and tilted railway tracks, a soul-stirring experience. - Hidden gem: Take photos in the dappled light of dusk, the ruins intertwined with the sunset create a cinematic feel! - Tickets: Free, open from 9:00-17:00 (closed on Mondays) 2. A green wonderland in a steel forest - Nanhu Park - Must-see: Climb the Longshan Pavilion to overlook the vast lake. In the evening, the lights of Yunfeng Island illuminate, instantly transporting you to the world of "Spirited Away"! - Money-saving tip: Rent a bicycle around the lake (¥30/hour), half the price of an electric car, and stop along the way to take stunning photos! - Night tour bonus: Free musical fountain light show every Friday/Saturday at 19:30! 3. An underground mining adventure - Kailuan National Mining Park - Hardcore experience: Put on a miner's helmet, descend 60 meters underground in a cage into a real mine shaft, and touch coal seams from hundreds of millions of years ago! - Photogenic spot: Retro steam locomotive + industrial-style steel sculptures, wear work clothes for a "cyber miner" photoshoot! - Tickets: ¥138 including underground exploration (half price for students) ✨Niche gems: - Puti Island (a "remote island in the vast sea" Buddhist sanctuary in the north, feed seagulls and watch windmills) - Luanzhou Ancient City (best for night tours, shadow puppet shows + Khitan bonfire party) 🍜【Food: Conquer Tangshan's time-honored brands for ¥50 per person】 Breakfast: - Jiumeizhai: A century-old shop! Checkerboard sesame cakes (bursting with meat filling), honey sesame candy (thin as cicada wings, sweet but not greasy), ¥15 per person for a filling meal! - Zhao Shifu Breakfast: Tofu pudding with fried bread, a local favorite breakfast stall, full of life! Dinner: - Hongyan Restaurant: Crispy-skinned and tender braised pork knuckle, Lao Zhaqian (Tangshan's intangible cultural heritage snack) dipped in garlic sauce is amazing! ¥60 per person - Chuanfengyuan Spicy Chicken: Spicy, savory, and fragrant with rice, ¥40 per person, eat till you're stuffed! Night Market: - Meiyidao Night Market: Grilled cold noodles wrapped in stinky tofu, Qianxi chestnut crisps, challenge your taste buds for ¥10! 🏨【Accommodation: Stay in scenic spots for ¥100+ per person】 - Budget-friendly: Chain hotels around Wanda Plaza (Home Inn, Hanting), ¥150/night, downstairs is the business district + subway - Atmosphere seekers: "Lakeside Residence" B&B in Nanhu Scenic Area, wake up to lake views, stargazing rooms ¥300+ with free breakfast - Quality seekers: Shangri-La Hotel, Tangshan, rooftop pool overlooking the city nightscape, incredibly affordable at ¥600+ during off-season 💡【Ultimate time-saving and money-saving guide】 1. Combo ticket tip: Kailuan Mining Park + Nanhu boat tour combo ticket ¥168 (saves ¥50 compared to buying separately) 2. Off-peak travel: Visit Kailuan Mining Park before 8am on Saturdays to avoid tour groups and take photos freely! 3. Free guided tours: Make reservations for free guided tours on the Nanhu Park official account to explore the ecological restoration technology in depth 4. Night travel transportation: Free 1-hour shared e-bike rides after 7pm, take advantage of this deal to explore the night market! Tangshan is wilder than you think! It's not just a "city of steel," but a treasure city that uses ruins to tell stories of rebirth and uses food to heal souls. 24 hours is enough for you to feel the industrial pulse, encounter the wetland galaxy, munch on sesame cakes while listening to miners' stories... Ready to depart tomorrow? Save this guide and unlock a Tangshan where "punk and poetry coexist"!

To learn about Tangshan, you must visit Kailuan National Mine Park. The highlight is the Kailuan Museum. Tangshan became a heavy industrial city with the birth and rise of the Kailuan Coal Mine. Since the establishment and operation of the Kaiping Mining Bureau in 1878, many "firsts" in China's modern industrial history have been born in Tangshan. In 1881, the first railway built by China, the Tangxu Railway, was completed and opened to traffic. Although it was only 9.7 kilometers long, it was the first standard gauge railway in China. The Kailuan Museum houses the British court records of the Kaiping Mining Rights Fraud Case; British-made rails from 1880; old stocks of the Kaiping Mining Bureau (Figures 7 and 8, but the original is kept in the archives, which is not clearly marked here): the century-old "sheepskin-covered ledger" (Figure 9), with anti-counterfeiting patterns on the side of the ledger; rails on China's first standard gauge railway; "Dragon Car" (Figure 10 replica)...... My favorite is "Underground Exploration". Take the elevator from the fourth floor of the Kailuan Museum to the underground entrance, walk along the red trail to the mine more than 70 meters underground, the dim mine lights illuminate the tunnels, winding like a maze, the roar of machines constantly ringing in your ears...... From early human digging and mule pulling to the most advanced comprehensive mechanized coal mining, nine working faces recreate the history of coal production. Then take the elevator 70 meters underground to the crisscrossing ancient tunnel site. Here, the evolution of coal mining from primitive mining, blasting, and general mining to modern comprehensive mechanized coal mining is truly recreated. Finally, take the small train (Figure 20) to the cultural and creative area. Kailuan is one of the industrial enterprises established during the Westernization Movement. After more than 140 years, the Kailuan enterprise has never moved, and its operations have never been interrupted, leaving behind a large number of typical and precious industrial sites, relics, and heritage. To this day, the old mine that has been mined for more than 140 years - Tangshan No. 1 Mine - can still produce about 3 million tons of coal per year. In October 2009, Kailuan National Mine Park, one of the first national mine parks in China, was officially opened. At present, the Kailuan Museum, China Railway Source Museum, Underground Exploration Tour, and Steam Locomotive Sightseeing Park have been built, forming an industrial museum group of "one park and six museums".

The entire mine park can be said that Tangshan is even a miniature version of China's industrial history. With 140 years of mining history, the old factory buildings and industrial objects are in front of our eyes. It seems that we have not gone far in a hundred years. The former mine treasures have now turned into a cultural tourism base, including the main museum of the Kailuan Museum, the underground exploration tour, China's first best mine 1878, the power era 1906, the steam locomotive sightseeing park, the China Railway Source Museum and a series of exhibition halls and scenic spots. Best is also a must-see route recommendation: Kailuan Museum - Underground Exploration - China Railway Source Museum - Steam Locomotive Sightseeing Park underground Quest is a highlight of the entire mine park, located in the museum underground The 10-meter underground coal mine has been reconstructed from the old roadway. Wearing a miner's helmet and walking into a deep underground tunnel, a moldy smell, from the original digging of coal to the nine real working faces of modern coal mining, makes people really experience the difficulty and danger of mining. Another place that can't be missed is the Steam Locomotive Sightseeing Park, including the China Railway Source Museum, the Steam Locomotive Exhibition Hall, the Tangshan Old Railway Station (Reconstruction), the Restoration Dragon Locomotive, and the Tanggu Railway Scenic Overpass. Wait. From the "mine" to the China Railway Source Museum, the source of the Chinese railway is the Tang Dynasty Railway. Address: 54 Xinhua East Road, Lunan District, Tangshan City

When it comes to mining, what else can you think of besides the coal boss? I thought about it carefully. I really don't know much about mining. If there is a place, it will allow you to learn more about the formation of coal, understand the history of coal mining in China and the world, and even gossip about the gossip related to mining in history, and let you go deep into the 100 meters and experience It is not very interesting for the mining work of coal workers. Especially for children, every child who has been here will go home with a cultural knowledge. Kailuan National Mine Park is located in the downtown area of Tangshan City, Hebei Province. It is located in Kailuan Tangshan Mining Company, which has a history of 136 years of mining and is known as the first best mine in China. It is an industrial relic. National mining parks with modern industrial themes of protection, coal culture and modern industrial civilization. In addition to learning the knowledge of coal mines in museums, the intent experience that makes children more interested is "under the underground exploration tour"! From the main hall of the museum, take the simulation cage to the underground, and the 100-meter Time and Space Gallery enters the ancient roadway ruins with an area of 5,000 square meters, experiencing the evolution from raw coal mining to modern coal mining. course.

China Railway has a starting point! In the Kailuan National Mine Park, a railway passes through a hundred-year-old culvert and passes under the Xinhua Road, the main road in Tangshan. This is China's first international standard railway, the Tangshan Railway. As a Chinese, it is worth seeing here, especially if you can bring a child and take a look at the history of the train.