Fuxingmen
Fuxingmen is the name of a gate that used to be a part of Beijing's old city wall. It is also the name of a road situated in central Beijing and on the northwestern stretch of the 2nd Ring Road in Beijing's Xicheng District.- Type: Historical site
- Description: former gate of Beijing
- Also known as: “Fu-hsing Men” and “Fuxing Men”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Fuxingmen and Capital Museum.
Fuxingmen
Metro station
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Fuxingmen Station is an interchange station on Line 1 and Line 2 of the Beijing Subway. It is named for Fuxingmen, a former gate in Beijing's city wall. The station handles over 170,000 transfers between Lines 1 and 2 per day.
Capital Museum
Museum
Photo: 鸟甲, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Capital Museum is a public municipal art museum in Beijing, China. It opened in 1981 and moved into its present building in 2006, which houses a large collection of ancient porcelain, bronze, calligraphy, painting, jade, sculpture, and Buddhist statues… Capital Museum is situated 1¼ km west of Fuxingmen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include 金融街 and Xicheng.
金融街
Suburb
Financial Street Subdistrict is a subdistrict on the center of Xicheng District, Beijing, China. As of 2020, its total population is 54,849.
Xicheng
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Xicheng District is a district in central Beijing. Visitors come here for the Houhai area to join the bar and restaurant cluster by the lake or to explore the remains of the wealthier part of historical Beijing nearby.
Guang’anmennei
Suburb
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Guang'anmennei Subdistrict is a subdistrict within the southern half of Xicheng District, Beijing, China. As of 2020, it has a total population of 60,318. The subdistrict got its name because it is located within Guang'anmen and the former Beijing city wall.
Fuxingmen
- Categories: city gate, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Beijing, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Thai—“Fuxingmen” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “复兴门”
- Chinese: “復興門”
- French: “Fuxingmen”
- Indonesian: “Fuxingmen”
- Japanese: “復興門”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fuxingmen”
- Norwegian: “Fuxingmen”
- Thai: “ประตูฟู่ซิง”
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