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Gaoyou Pawnshop (Tongxing Pawnshop) 高邮当铺Gāoyóu Dàngpù
National heritage site · Yangzhou, Jiangsu
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Yangzhou
- Region
- Jiangsu
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Gaoyou Pawnshop (Tongxing Pawnshop)
A pawnshop outside Gaoyou's old north gate, opened in the early to mid Qing and said by local tradition to have belonged to the minister Heshen; it traded until 1927, reopened briefly and closed for good during the war against Japan. The compound of five rows of buildings covers about 3,300 m² and is one of the better-preserved large pawnshops of the period, with its storage building and recreated scenes showing how pawning worked.
How to get to Gaoyou Pawnshop (Tongxing Pawnshop)
At the junction of Renmin Road and Beimen Street, outside the old north gate of Gaoyou, about 45 km north of Yangzhou (around an hour by road).
Nearby
- Slender West Lake 瘦西湖 40 km
A ribbon of willow-fringed water lined with the pavilions of Qing salt merchants
Also within 20 km: Memorial of the Last Battle of the War of Resistance, Gaoyou 抗日战争最后一役文化园 (under 10 km), Wenyou Terrace, Gaoyou 文游台 (under 10 km), Yucheng Postal Stop 盂城驿 (under 10 km), Longqiuzhuang Neolithic Site 龙虬庄遗址 (under 10 km).
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