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Jiumenkou Great Wall 九门口长城Jiǔménkǒu Chángchéng
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Huludao, Liaoning
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Huludao
- Region
- Liaoning
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Jiumenkou Great Wall
Jiumenkou is a stretch of Ming Great Wall that crosses a seasonal river on a stone gateway-bridge about 110 m long and 10 m high, with nine arched openings that carried heavy double wooden doors, shut at low water and opened to let floods through. The river bed is paved with square stone slabs, which gave the pass its old name Yipianshi ('One Slab of Stone'), and watchtowers and wall run up the hills on either side as part of the eastern end of the Ming Jizhen defences. The site straddles the Liaoning–Hebei border; the Liaoning side lies in Suizhong County.
How to get to Jiumenkou Great Wall
On the Liaoning–Hebei border about 11 km north of Shanhaiguan, with the Liaoning-side entrance in Suizhong County about 19 km west-north-west of Qiansuo town.
Nearby
- Shanhai Pass 山海关 10 km
Where the Ming Great Wall ends at the sea, at the 'First Pass Under Heaven'
Also within 20 km: Changshou Mountain 长寿山 (under 10 km), Jiaoshan Great Wall 角山长城 (under 10 km), Zhongqiansuo Garrison Town 中前所城 (20 km), Yintai Shuixing Ocean Park, Dongdaihe 银泰水星海洋乐园 (20 km), Ledao Ocean Kingdom 乐岛海洋王国 (20 km), Banchangyu Brick Kiln Sites 板厂峪窑址群遗址 (20 km).
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