铁塔

The Iron Pagoda is located in the Iron Pagoda Park at No. 210 Beimen Street, Shunhe Hui District. It was originally named Kaibaosi Pagoda. It was built in the first year of Emperor You of the Northern Song Dynasty (1049). It is the earliest, tallest and best-preserved glazed brick pagoda in the Northern Song Dynasty and is known as "the best pagoda in the world". It is not made of iron, but is made of brown glazed bricks, which makes it look like iron from a distance. The tower body is octagonal and has 13 floors, about 55.88 meters high, and is inlaid with more than 50 kinds of glazed bricks such as flying apsaras, unicorns, and bodhisattvas. After earthquakes, Yellow River floods, and anti-Japanese war bombardments, it still stands tall, which is the most faithful testimony of Kaifeng City's "repeated flooding and repeated construction".

开封市博物馆

The Kaifeng Municipal Museum is the best starting point to distinguish the stages of multiple capital establishments and understand why the remains of the Northern Song Dynasty are often buried deep underground. Archaeological artifacts, models, city maps, and different versions of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" reconstruct administration, commerce, and daily life without pretending that the modern surface is anything but its original appearance. The subsequent contents of Jewish communities, guild halls, the Yellow River and local crafts also make the urban narrative transcend a single dynasty.

繁塔

Fan Pagoda was built in the 10th century and is one of the earliest existing buildings in Kaifeng. Only the lower part of the original tower is preserved today. The outer wall is densely covered with glazed bricks with Buddha statues, forming a dense religious surface that is different from the later iron towers. The altered contours directly reveal the damage and reconstruction, rather than diminishing its value.

山陕甘会馆

Guildhalls built by merchants in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu during the Qing Dynasty combined business contacts, sacrifices, and mutual assistance with fellow villagers. Dense wood carvings, brick carvings and stone carvings turn the facades and screen walls into auspicious images, operas and records of merchants' identities. It shows that after the Song Dynasty, Kaifeng was still a commercial city connecting long-distance trade, and was not just a memorial to the former capital.

开封城墙

The main body of the existing city wall belongs to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is a layer of the city that was repeatedly buried and rebuilt after the Yellow River floods. Gates, walls and archaeological evidence illustrate how later defensive structures were superimposed on earlier capital layers. A short walk will help you understand the "city on top of the city", but it cannot be directly called the original city wall of Tokyo City in the Northern Song Dynasty.