# Penglai Pavilion (蓬莱阁)

Yantai, Shandong Province · East China, China · Guidebook rating: 5/5
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## Key facts

- **Admission:** Penglai Pavilion ¥100; cable car round-trip across the sea ¥50
- **Opening hours:** 08:00-17:00 (10.26-12.31)
- **Time needed:** 4–5 hours
- **Address:** No. 1 Beiguan Road, Penglai District, Yantai, Shandong Province
- **Getting there:** Buses to Penglai Pavilion depart from both Yantai Long-Distance Bus Station and Beima Road Bus Station
- **Good for:** Photography, Nature

## About Penglai Pavilion

Yantai is famed throughout the land thanks to Penglai, which has long been known as a earthly paradise. The well-known legend of the “Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea” originates here. Seen from below, Penglai Pavilion is merely a small pavilion on a low hill, unremarkable and without any sense of the mystical. But once you stand inside the pavilion and look down, the little hill becomes a towering cliff, and you feel as though you might drift away on the wind. Not far from the original site where Qi Jiguang trained his anti-Japanese pirate-fighting navy stands the Penglai Water Fortress. Looking into the distance, you can see a hazy cluster of islands, which is the Changdao archipelago.

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Source: China Self-Guided Travel 2025 (《中国自助游》, Tianjin Science & Technology Press, Aug 2024), p. 1374. Prices, hours and transport details are as printed in the August 2024 edition and may have changed. Always confirm with the venue before you travel.
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