郑州
Zhengzhou
Most visitors change trains in Zhengzhou without leaving the station. Stay a day and you get one of the country's best provincial museums, 3,600-year-old earth walls running through the middle of town, and the Songshan monuments ninety minutes south-west.
城市速览
- 建议停留
- 2–2 天
- 推荐季节
- Apr–May、Sep–Oct
- 抵达机场
- 铁路或公路抵达
- 所在区域
- 华中
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最近更新: 2026/9/24
从这些地点开始
走进真实的城市。
登封·嵩山
Dengfeng: Shaolin and the Songshan monuments
Eight UNESCO-listed sites scattered around one mountain, ninety minutes south-west. Shaolin is only the loudest of them.
二七纪念塔·德化街
Erqi Tower and Dehua Street
The city's landmark — two joined pentagonal towers from 1971 — above a shopping street that has been here since 1905.
河南博物院
Henan Museum
The province that held most of ancient China's capitals, in one pyramid-shaped building. Free, and worth half a day.
郑州商城·商都遗址博物院
Shang City walls and the Shangdu Museum
Seven kilometres of rammed earth from about 1600 BC, still standing in the middle of the city, with a museum built against them.
黄河文化公园
Yellow River Cultural Park
Where the river leaves the hills and starts running above the plain, with two emperors carved into a mountainside.
郑州城隍庙
Zhengzhou City God Temple
A Ming temple founded in the 1300s, the best old timber in a city that lost most of it. Free.
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Overview+
SHANXIJIANGSUANHUISHANDONGHUBEISHAANXIZhengzhou
Zhengzhou is young as Chinese cities go. It was a county town until the Beijing–Hankou and Longhai railways crossed here in the 1900s, and everything since — the provincial capital, twelve million people, the glass towers east of the centre — grew out of that junction.
The ground under it is much older. A Shang capital stood here from about 1600 BC and left rammed-earth walls eight metres high and seven kilometres around; they run through the Guancheng district as a long green ridge with a park on top and traffic on both sides. The Henan Museum, an hour's walk north, holds what the whole province has dug up: bone flutes nine thousand years old that still play, the Fu Hao owl vessel, a Spring and Autumn bronze pot with a crane on the lid.
Most people treat the city as a base. Dengfeng and the Songshan monuments are ninety minutes south-west, Kaifeng twenty minutes east, Luoyang forty minutes west. Two days is enough, and the museum deserves half of one.
Getting there+
**Zhengzhou East** (郑州东) is one of the country's busiest stations, where the Beijing–Guangzhou and Xuzhou–Lanzhou high-speed lines cross: Beijing and Xi'an two to two and a half hours, Wuhan two, Shanghai four, Luoyang 40 minutes, Kaifeng 20. The older **Zhengzhou** station, on metro lines 1 and 10, is better placed for the old centre and slower trains. **Xinzheng (CGO)** is 19 minutes from Zhengzhou East on the airport intercity train, or an hour by metro line 2 running through to the Chengjiao line.
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Where to stay+
Erqi and the old centre
二七·老城
Around the Erqi tower and Dehua Street, with the old railway station a few blocks west.
The densest part of the city and the easiest without a car: metro lines 1 and 3 meet under Erqi Square, the Shang walls are twenty minutes' walk east, and the noodle houses are all here. Hotels run from railway-station cheap to mid-range business.
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Zhengdong New District
郑东新区
The CBD around Ruyi Lake and Zhengzhou East station. Wide, new and efficient.
Business hotels within walking distance of the high-speed station, which matters if you are here to change trains or leaving early for the airport. Little street life; metro line 1 takes twenty minutes back to the centre.
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Jinshui
金水
North of the centre, around the Henan Museum and the tree-lined avenues. Quieter.
Residential blocks, parks and the city's older embassy-era hotels. Good if the museum is your reason for coming; Guanhutun on metro line 2 is a ten-minute walk away.
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