Minhou is a partly rural and partly suburban area in Fujian, administered as a county of the prefecture-level city Fuzhou. Geographically, it wraps around the south and west sides of downtown Fuzhou.

Understand

Damu River mouth

Near the Min River, west of downtown Fuzhou, Minhou is a fast-growing suburban area with much new high-rise housing.

Starting just after the turn of the century, a new "University City" was built in Minhou; about half a dozen institutions now have campuses there.

Get in

The suburban parts of Minhou can be reached on Fuzhou city buses, or by taxi at reasonable cost. For more distant parts, there are buses and trains from Fuzhou. Two of the universities, Fuzhou U and Fujian Normal U, have their own train stations.

Some of the universities run shuttle buses between their downtown and Minhou campuses.

Get around

See and do

• 1 Minhou County Museum (闽侯县博物馆), 157 Jiexin Road, Ganzhe Subdistrict (甘蔗街道街心路157号) (bus nos. 517, 767 and 905), ☏ +86 591 22073125. 09:00-17:00, closed on Mondays. Free. (updated Dec 2023)
• 2 Tanshishan Site Museum (昙石山遗址博物馆), 1 Wenbo Road, Ganzhe Subdistrict (甘蔗街道文博路1号) (bus nos. 33, 511, 577, 601, 707, 762, 767, 905, Minhou 602, Minhou 606 and the Ganzhe-Bantou bus line), ☏ +86 591 22988233, +86591 22073555. 09:00-16:30, closed on Mondays. A museum built over the top of the Tanshishan Site, the oldest Neolithic site in Fujian Province. The museum displays stone tools, pottery, and other items discovered at the site. Free. (updated Dec 2023)

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