Huairou District, Beijing — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Huairou District?

The borough gathers little but keeps its own record. Within Huairou District the Huairou Museum stands as the defining civic draw, a local institution that holds the story of this northern ward and its ground about 50 kilometres from the centre of Beijing. The Huairou Museum anchors the middle.

Around it the district's own streets carry the everyday texture of a borough set well beyond the packed inner core, temperate and broad rather than dense.

What is the history of Huairou District?

Huairou District carries the memory of Beijing's northern edge. This borough grew up about 50 kilometres from the city centre as one of the outlying wards that ring the capital, and the Huairou Museum now keeps the record of that outlying life, from the district's rural past to its place inside the modern city of Beijing. The museum holds it together.

Huairou remembers a quieter frame of the capital.

Where is Huairou District?

Huairou District spreads across the northern reach of Beijing. This broad temperate borough lies about 50 kilometres from the city centre, its ground running from the built-up streets around the Huairou Museum out toward the ridgelines that ring the capital's northern edge.