Qixia Mountain Scenic Area

GardenDay Trips: Niushou Mountain, Qixia Mountain and Tangshan

QIXIA MOUNTAIN SCENIC AREA · QIXIASHAN FENGJING MINGSHENGQU

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Day Trips: Niushou Mountain, Qixia Mountain and Tangshan · 32.157°N 118.963°E

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A wooded hill 20 km north-east of the city that Qianlong called 'the first fine and elegant mountain of Jinling', and where Nanjing goes for autumn colour: the district government counts 150,000 colour-changing trees, and calls it one of China's four great maple-viewing areas. Historians, it says, sum the place up as 'one Qixia Mountain, half the history of Jinling'. The point for a foreign visitor is that the maples are the least of it.

Before you goTwo warnings, and one of them is about a date nobody has published yet. First, the maple festival: the ticket rises from 50 to 80 yuan during it, and as of late September 2026 no official notice of the 2026 dates exists. In past years the colour has peaked from mid-November into the first half of December, and the 2025 programme ran from 19 October to 18 December - but that came from an October 2025 article on Nanjing Wenming, the city's civic-affairs site (nj.wenming.cn), quoting the scenic area's management office, not from the management office itself. Assume the higher price and check the district government's own channel before you go. Second, the crowds. The management office told that same 2025 report it monitors density inside the park and switches to sectional release and one-way circulation when flows exceed warning levels, which is a polite way of saying a November weekend here is not a walk in the woods. Also note that the published opening hours - 07:00 to 17:00, last tickets 16:30 - and the claim that entry before 07:00 is free come only from platform listings; the district government publishes the price but not the hours. Something wrong here? Tell us →

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AdmissionTicketed50 yuan; 80 in maple-festival seasonSource ↗

Hours07:00-17:00, sales stop 16:30 (platform figure)Ask before you go: 025-85766979

ClosedNone publishedAsk before you go: 025-85766979

IDNone publishedAsk before you go: 025-85766979

LandmarkQixia Mountain Scenic Area (栖霞山风景名胜区，栖霞街 88 号)

Address88 Qixia Street, Qixia District, Nanjing (南京市栖霞区栖霞街 88 号)Source ↗

EntranceThe main entrance is the west gate (there is also a south gate), on Qixia Street, the same block as Qixia Temple; scenic-area enquiries 025-85766979; Metro Line 6 (opened 29 September 2026) ends at Qixiashan station, at the scenic area's doorstep - no official walking time to the west gate is published

Last verified 2026-10-12

How to book

No booking requirement published; tickets at the gate or online; without WeChat, Trip.com's international site sells them directly (platform, checked September 2026)Ask before you go: 025-85766979

Paying on site

Buy at the gate or on a Chinese platform; the district government notice only sets the price and requires it to be displayed prominently at the ticket office

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