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Top 11 Best Things to Do in Datong [2025]
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Yungang Grottoes
4.8
/5
22453 reviews
8.8
From €14.74
Based on 989 reviews
14.4 km from downtown
Phone 0352-7992622
Address: No. 1, Yungang Town, Yungang District, Datong City, Shanxi Province
Recommended sightseeing time: 3-4 hours
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Great value! Very shocking! It is worthy of being one of the four grottoes! There is a battery car to sit at the entrance and you can start visiting the grottoes. You don't need to climb the mountain, you only need to walk a little step. And the grotto sculptures are well preserved and the colors are very bright.
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Xuankong Temple
4.6
/5
7100 reviews
8.2
Based on 785 reviews
58.3 km from downtown
Phone 0352-8327795
Address: At the foot of Hengshan Mountain in the southeastern suburb of Wuyuan County, Datong City
Recommended sightseeing time: 1-2 hours
Featured in 2025 Asia 100 – Best Things to Do
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The scenic spot of the Suspension Temple is really beautiful. It is more than 70 kilometers away from Datong City. The Suspension Temple is only interesting to experience in person. Standing at the bottom of the mountain and looking up at the Suspension Temple is really spectacular. The effect seen from photos and videos is really incomparable. It is recommended that tourists visit this attraction.
Excellent experience, if you want to see the suspension temple up close and feel the suspension temple, then this is too worth it, save all trouble, go straight to the theme, and the service is very good, very convenient, and there are cultural and creative gifts, very worth it.
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Datong Ancient City
4.5
/5
113 reviews
7.9
From €3.66
Ancient City Tourist Cultural Area | 1.9 km from downtown
Address: 山西省大同市平城區大同城牆帶狀公園（御河西路西）
Recommended sightseeing time: 1 day
No.1 of Night Attractions in Datong
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The spatial form of Datong Ancient City basically continued the pattern of the Ming and Qing Dynasties: the main city surrounded by city walls, and the outer three small cities (Eastern, South, and North) outside the outer wall. The street pattern, with cross street as the skeleton, east and west street as the horizontal axis, north and south street as the vertical axis, forming the main road system of the ancient city; the four corners of the small street cross, and showing a large-scale "fang", forming the secondary road system of the ancient city; These "fangs" are divided and distributed by the alleys, and most of the intersections of the alleys in the alleys are connected to each other in "D" shapes, forming a branch road system in the ancient city. There are "four streets, eight alleys, 72 alleys".
Teacher Qu is very enthusiastic and his explanations are wonderful! He can also answer various questions in a simple and easy-to-understand way according to the children's preferences. He is very kind and friendly! He can understand the needs of the guests and has a good sense of service! It brings a good impression of Datong!
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Heng Shan Mountain
4.4
/5
3786 reviews
7.4
From €5.49
Based on 41 reviews
58.6 km from downtown
Phone 0352-8333077
Address: At the foot of Hengshan Mountain in the southeastern suburb of Wuyuan County, Datong City
Recommended sightseeing time: 0.5-1 day
No.1 of Spring Outings in Datong
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Wuyueli is not too difficult to climb, the scenery is not the best, but it is still worth punching in. 3 hours of round trip is fast, it is recommended to stay for half a day or a day, see the pavilion in Figure 1 has to go a long time to get to the top, but it is said that many people line up to take pictures, decisively give up, have seen the most beautiful scenery!
Beiyue Hengshan Tourist Scenic Area is located more than 70 kilometers southeast of Datong. The peak height is 2016 meters. The mountain is majestic and there are many temples. The vegetation on the mountain is relatively scarce and there is a lack of strange stone. Tourists can choose to take the cableway up the mountain and take the bus back to the mountain. You can also choose the bus up the mountain. The way the ropeway goes down the mountain, so basically does not go back.
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Datong Museum
4.5
/5
464 reviews
6.8
Datong South Railway Station/Fantawild Adventure | 5.7 km from downtown
Address: No. 506 Taihe Road, Pingcheng District, Datong City, Shanxi Province
Recommended sightseeing time: 2-4 hours
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Datong Museum is a national-level museum, it is the best municipal museum in my mind, like Luoyang Museum, the collection of cultural relics is rich, historical materials are detailed, exquisite, and the number of visitors is large. The huge murals in the hall, the blue porcelain of Datong, the camel potter in the patio are breathtaking. It is worth a closer look.
B1 Floor: There are digital museums, 5D cinemas, children's interactive areas, restaurants, etc. 1st floor: there is a Datong dinosaur special exhibition hall, displaying dinosaur models, fossils, etc., as well as the vicissitudes of the vicissitudes of Datong, displaying stone tools, pottery, money and other cultural relics. 2nd floor: Weidu Pingcheng Exhibition Hall, showing the rise and fall of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the collision of Chinese and Western culture, there are 5 units such as Shengle Times, Kyoto Pingcheng, Silk Road Heritage. 3rd floor: Liaojin Xijing Exhibition Hall, showing Liaojin period characteristic buildings and religions; The Ming and Qing Dynasties' exhibition hall presents the military culture and ethnic exchanges of the border defense town; there is also a special exhibition hall in Sanskrit.
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Datong Fantawild Adventure
4.7
/5
6648 reviews
6.7
From €34.16
Datong South Railway Station/Fantawild Adventure | 6.6 km from downtown
Phone 400-166-0006
Address: No. 3666, South Ring Road, Pingcheng District, Datong City
Recommended sightseeing time: 0.5-1 day
No.1 of Family-friendly Attractions in Datong
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The first time I took my children to Fangte Happy World, I went to Happy Valley before. The overall feeling is more fun than Happy Valley, that is, there are more charges inside. In addition to these children's play and some large projects, everything else needs to be charged separately, and the tickets are not too cheap.
Datong Fangte has many amusement projects, such as air dancing, pirate ships, wave rolls and other exciting projects, suitable for adventure-loving tourists; there are also crazy idioms, universe expo, life light and other teaching projects, suitable for parent-child travel or family travel.
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Datong Clay Forest
4.3
/5
761 reviews
6.5
From €5.86
21.1 km from downtown
Phone 0352-8019543
Address: Duzhuang Village, Duzhuang Township, Datong County, Datong City
Recommended sightseeing time: 2-3 hours
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Yes, take a look at the less scenic spots. Much smaller than the Zada Tulin, I was a little disappointed at first glance. But you can get in close contact, watching the ditches carved by wind and water for hundreds of millions of years, you will unconsciously sigh the ghostly work of nature, feel the vastness of time and its own smallness.
It is a niche attraction, but I think it is a place that cannot be ignored. It is a very distinctive landform. It is a Tukarst landform. I went there on May 1st. There are not many people in general. It is scattered. It is recommended to do a good job of sun protection.
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Jinhuagong National Mine Park
4.5
/5
314 reviews
6.1
14.1 km from downtown
Phone 0352-7086666
Address: Jinhua Palace, South Suburb of Datong City
Recommended sightseeing time: 2-3 hours
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Experience the life of miners going down the mine. During the May Day holiday, there were many people, and I felt that I had a quick look. Some events were too far away from the guide, there was no signal, and I couldn't hear the guide. If there were fewer people, I might have experienced more. In short, it was a fresh tour project.
The park has completely preserved the rusty mining machinery, mine tunnels, mine cars and other industrial relics. Visitors can go deep into the abandoned mine area 400 meters underground and ride on old-fashioned mine cars to experience the working environment of miners. This immersive experience makes people feel like traveling back to the golden age of the coal industry, and directly experience the hardships of miners and technological innovation.
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Yong'an Temple
4.8
/5
39 reviews
5.6
From €2.44
Based on 4 reviews
53.5 km from downtown
Phone 0352-8322142
Address: North Lane, Gulou, Hunyuan County, Shanxi 037400
Recommended sightseeing time: 1-2 hours
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Very worth going. Only murals do not have Buddha statues. Good luck, the narrators were sent out, explaining that the tutor Yang Bajie personally stood up, the level is high, the history and culture are also naturally integrated into the excellent traditional culture and core values.
The murals in the temple are beautiful and can be taken, not bad. The calligraphy of the famous family is also worth seeing... The parking at the door is convenient and there is no charge. It is within walking distance of Shuqi, Yuanjue Temple, Ancient Street and other attractions.
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Datong Lantern Festival
4.6
/5
81 reviews
5.6
From €3.66
Ancient City Tourist Cultural Area | 1.7 km from downtown
Phone 0352-7699269
Address: 大同市平城區鼓樓東街煤運公司住宅區西南側約110米
No.2 of Night Attractions in Datong
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It's so far and long... I finished walking during the day and walked again at night. I was a little tired and didn't finish the walk, but the content was quite rich. The twelve zodiac animals were all very cute, Mulan was super handsome, and the dinosaurs looked a little scary at night (laugh)
The light meeting on the wall of Datong is worth recommending. The fare is 30 yuan, very cheap and good value for money. The lights are turned on at five o'clock in the evening, the theme is rich, there are black mythology Wukong, flower magnolia, zodiac, various foods, so beautiful. The lanterns are very exquisite and worth the fare. Climbing the city at night and watching the beautiful scenery of Datong, very beautiful
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