![]() ![]() The Tiananmen, or the Gate of Heavenly Peace, is the monumental entrance under the famous portrait of Mao Zedong to get to the Meridian Gate if you’re coming from the south. Getting inside the Imperial City is only through the Southern Gate, which is also called Wumen, or the Meridian Gate. Always get your passport handy as there are security checks along the area just outside the train and before going into the Palace Museum or at the Tian’anmen Square. Tourists and foreign visitors like me are discouraged to be going around in private vehicles so my colleague and I had to leave our car in the hotel so we can take the public railway transit to get to the train station at Tiananmen Square. And if you ask locals how to get to the world’s largest ancient palatial structure, you will always be told “just go downtown and you’ll find it.” It seems easy to go around the city as long as you are within Beijing’s first 5 rings since most of the tourist destinations you’d like to go to are interconnected by their 23 railway systems. The Palace Museum, as it is now more widely known, is located at the heart of downtown Beijing. I visited Forbidden City during the winter season in December 2019 and it was my first-time visit to Beijing, China. ![]()
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