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Chongqing

重庆
VERIFIED 2026.09.29

The cyberpunk mountain city the internet discovered.

A vertical city of 30 million where streets stack on streets: trains pass through apartment blocks, cable cars cross rivers, and fog wraps neon. Also China's spicy-food endgame — bring milk.

Arriving

CKG — metro 3/10 lines in, ~45 min.

Getting around

Bilingual and long; AMap is essential — exits here are vertical decisions.

Sleep here

Jiefangbei (central, walkable nights) or near Hongya Cave.

The five that matter

  1. 01Liziba train-through-building
  2. 02Hongya Cave at night
  3. 03Yangtze River cableway
  4. 04Ciqikou old town
  5. 05Cliffside hotpot

Day trips

Wulong Karst (transformers-scale canyons, 2h); Dazu rock carvings (UNESCO, 2h).

Skip it

Sightseeing inside Hongya Cave (the view of it is the point); spicy level 'zhongla' on day one.