Neighbourhood · Beijing
Wudaokou is Beijing's university district — the neighbourhood around Tsinghua and Peking University in the northwest, with a young, international, highly educated crowd and a food scene to match: Korean restaurants, Japanese ramen, cheap dumplings and Chinese barbecue competing with coffee shops that here at least have genuine local competition. The Yuanmingyuan Old Summer Palace ruins are a short cycle ride. It feels nothing like tourist Beijing — which is exactly why it is on this list. For travellers combining Beijing with academic purposes, or simply wanting to experience the city's young intellectual energy at close range, Wudaokou makes the capital feel human-scaled.
1 hotel within walking distance of Wudaokou, in the heart of Beijing, including 1 property rated 4 stars or higher. The closest is The Lakeview Hotel, about 528m from the centre of the neighbourhood.
