Hankou Riverside Concessions (Wuhan)

National Key Cultural Relic Protection Units; The Former British, Russian, French, German And Japanese Concessions · Wuhan, Hubei

A mile of European banking halls, trading houses and consulates along the north bank of the Yangtze at Wuhan, left over from the period between 1861 and the 1940s when five foreign powers held concessions here. Hankou was the great inland treaty port, the place where tea from Hunan and Hubei was pressed into bricks and shipped to Russia, and the money built accordingly: the British concession first, then Russian, French, German and Japanese, each with its own street grid, policing and architecture. What survives is a remarkably dense streetscape of granite and brick - the Customs House of 1924 with its clock tower, banks with colonnaded fronts, the Russian tea merchants' villas, and the Jianghan Road pedestrian street running inland through it. The riverside park below is where Wuhan walks in the evening, with the Yangtze bridges lit and ferries crossing to Wuchang. It is entirely free and ungated, and the Customs House now holds a museum of the city's treaty-port history.

Jianghan Road and Yanjiang Avenue, Jiang'an District, Wuhan, Wuhan, Hubei, China

The concession streets and riverside park are free and open at all hours. The Jianghan Guan museum in the Customs House opens Tuesday to Sunday, about 9:00-17:00 with last entry 16:00, closed Mondays except public holidays, and requires a free reservation.

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