Opening Hours

April 1 to October 31 of each year, the season opening hours
Began selling tickets, open the museum time: 8:30
Only the votes (including watches Museum, Treasures from the Museum): 16:00
Stop Admission time: 16:10
Clearance time: 17:00

November 1 to March 31 in the coming year using the off-season opening hours
Began selling tickets, open the museum time: 8:30
Only the votes (including watches Museum, Treasures from the Museum): 15:30
Stop Admission time: 15:40
The clearance time: 16:30

Regular tickets
April 1 - October 31 each year for the season, and each ticket is 60 yuan (not including the museum treasures, watches Museum)
November 1 - March 31 in the coming year for the off-season, and each ticket is 40 yuan (not including the museum treasures, watches Museum)
Treasures from the Museum (ie, enter the the Qianlong area, including the opera hall, Shek Kwu Museum) visited Tickets: Each ticket is 10 yuan
Watch Museum (enter Fengxian temple area) to visit Tickets: Each ticket is 10 yuan
1.2 meters tall children can visit with guardians free of charge.

The Imperial Palace reception in primary school group visits. Free of charge Trial Procedures

The Palace Museum, the implementation of light, season the difference tickets system. Tickets preferential policies in school and the specific group of people can enjoy
Tickets preferential policies: (all the preferential policies are non-Treasures from the Museum, watches Museum)
1, primary and secondary school students (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan students; excluding adult education, graduate), student ID to purchase student tickets, each 20 yuan / person.
2.60 years old (60 years) with a valid document, the elderly, tickets are half-price concession.
Retired cadres with the retired card is free.
4 persons with disabilities by people with disabilities documents Admission is free.
(5) holding the city social protection Jinling evidence of staff, tickets are half-price concession
The annual 61 "Children's Day, children under the age of 14 (including 14 years of age) Admission is free. Along with the parents can enjoy half price.
Each year "38" Women's Day, women in the audience can enjoy tickets for half-price concession.
The annual Army Army, active duty of Chinese soldiers with valid documents Admission is free.

Notes

Since July 2, 2011, the Palace Museum to implement a one-way tour route from south to north

The Meridian Gate (South Gate) only as the entrance of the visit, the audience all from the Meridian Gate to enter the Forbidden City; the Shenwu Men (North Gate) as the visit exports, the audience after the end of the visit all by Shenwu Men leave the Forbidden City.
If you have the habit of smoking, please visit the tour when the restraint in the National Palace Museum, and to remind others not to smoke!
The Forbidden City is the largest existing palace of wood structure, history has repeatedly fire. Each lit a cigarette is likely to be the threat of this piece of valuable historical and cultural heritage.

Respect for cultural heritage, protection of cultural relics.
Please do not leave your name on the ancient buildings and old trees, depicting graffiti not only does not make you fame forever, but was everyone's contempt.

Be the civilization audience.
Without prejudice to influence others to visit, in accordance with international practice in the hall Do not use flash and a tripod camera.
Forbidden City is in cooperation with other museum exhibitions, and specialty goods stores, due to a copyright agreement does not allow the audience to take pictures of the exhibits, please pay attention to warning signs, subject to the management of the hall staff.

Jointly create a civilized environment will depend on all!
No pets allowed into the Forbidden City to visit.
Please try not to obstruct other spectators.
Keep clothes clean and tidy.
Do not make the unsightly, detrimental to the image of the behavior.
For your and others' health, do not spit.
Do not litter waste, respect for the labor of the cleaners.
let us protect the environment of the Forbidden City!

Services and facilities

Deposit bags
Deposit bags luggage between the Meridian Gate (South Gate) to the Shenwu Men (North Gate) Free Shipping. The audience can also choose to accept to carry a security check, the hospital will be admitted to hospital all the luggage baggage Dangerous Goods investigation.
Working time 8:30-18:00, Location: Meridian Gate and the east of the Shenwu Men outside.

Audio guide rental
Deposit: 100 yuan for each one.
Rent: Chinese, Cantonese version of 10 yuan for each one.
Other languages is 40 yuan for each one.
After the visiting, prior to discharge voice to explain to the explain the Service.
Service Location: Meridian Gate Shenwu Men.

Guide to explain services
5 or 5 the following:
Length: 250 yuan
Middle and West Road: $ 150
Middle Road: 100 yuan
More than five people, subject to 10 yuan for each additional person.
Location of the service station: the Meridian Gate, Shenwu Men
Volunteers free of charge to explain
Only provide the Chinese and English explanation in the exhibition hall of the museum treasures, watches Museum, Painting and Calligraphy.
Broadcast studios
Tracing broadcast. Automatic playback visit the Note, closed the door closed time notification attractions in the regional introduction.
Audience Advisory Centre
Location: King delivered door southwest
Automatic teller machines (ATM)
Watches and clocks, entrance hall of the Bank of China ATM machines.
Treasures from the Museum doorway ATM machines of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.

For the bathroom, the Forbidden City bookstore, travel goods shops, catering shops and other facilities within the National Palace Museum.Docked vehicles: 5, specifically a road designed bus on the National Palace Museum, bathroom, Forbidden City bookstore, travel goods shop, catering shops and other service facilities.

Tourist routes

Palace tours

Ideal touring route from the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City, and then along the axis in order to visit within the Golden Water Bridge, the Gate of Supreme Harmony, Hall of Supreme Harmony, Hall of Preserving Harmony, dry clean doors, the Palace of Heavenly Purity, cross the Thai Temple , Kunning, the Imperial Garden. After visiting the Imperial Garden, by the Imperial Garden, the left door to enter the West Palaces in turn to visit Chuxiu, Ling Kun Palace, Yongshou Palace, Ham Hock Keng Temple, Changchun Gong, Tai Jidian (also called Kai Cheung Gong), and then within The right door back to the dry clear Mun Plaza, eastbound into the left door, turn to visit the East Palaces Yanxi Palace, Yonghe Palace, Jing Yang Gong, multiply dry Gong, Zhong Cuigong. After visiting the East Palaces along East Chang An Avenue and then back to dry clear Mun Plaza, east through the King delivered the door into the Xiqing door, and then into a Royal door, you can visit a Royal Temple, Qianlong period, play playhouse the Nobuo Court cultivation temple, the Qianlong Garden, Zhen Fei well, finally out the Shun Ching door, westbound out Shenwu Men to leave the Forbidden City.

The Imperial Palace quick tour route

  Road: the Meridian Gate - Gate of Supreme Harmony hall - Qian Qing Hall - Qianqing Hall - pay - Thailand temple - Kunning,, Imperial Garden - Shenwu Men

  East: the Meridian Gate - Gate of Supreme Harmony hall - Qian Qing Hall- East Palaces - the Qianlong - Zhenfei well.

  Road: the Meridian Gate - Gate of Supreme Harmony hall - Qian Qing Hall - Hall of Mental Cultivation West Palaces- Cining Hall, - Shu Fangzhai

  Vehicles parked: 101,103,109,124 trolley bus and 202,211,685,619,614,609, designed a road designed bus
  The Shenwu Men around the public transport stations: Jingshan East Gate
  Vehicles parked: 111 trolley bus

Donghuamen

(The East Gate of the Palace Museum, usually only do the staff channel): 800 meters from the curb in the Wangfujing commercial Donganmen Street westbound can reach.
The Donghuamen surrounding public transport stations: Donghuamen
Vehicles parked: 2,82,210, specifically a road designed bus

West Gate

(Simon of the National Palace Museum, usually only do the staff channel) along the South Long Street northbound: From Chang'an Street 600 meters from the Beihai Park along North Long Street southbound 600 meters can be reached.
West Gate around the public transport station: Xihuamen

Shenwu Men

(The North Gate of the Palace Museum since July 2, 2011, beginning only as spectators visited the export): Jingshan Park across the street from the relative
  The Shenwu Men around the public transport station: Forbidden City

Modes of transportation

Forbidden City in Beijing

Address: Dongcheng District, Beijing Jingshan Front Street on the 4th.
By 1,2,4,5,10,20,22,52,54,57,120,802, special 1 Road, Zhongshan Park or the Tiananmen Square station;

Subway on the 1st line of Tiananmen East or Tiananmen West Station;

Multiply 9,17,44,48,53,59,66,110,307,803,808,819,922, special, special seven-way front door station;

Multiply 101,103,103 fast, 109,812,814 Road Forbidden City Station.

Bus: 1,2,5,8,10,20,52,22,120,728,802 Tiananmen West or Tiananmen East and get off the subway (Tiananmen East Station, Tiananmen West Station) 9,17,22,44,48 59,66,110,126,301,646,673,692,729,803,808,901, special 4, special 7, BRT1 the front door to get off, or 101,103,109,685,814,846 Road, Forbidden City vehicles, 60 Donghuamen get off

Car: Dongcheng District, to drive to the route of the National Palace Museum from the alley to the west direction of the education group, to the Nanyang alley of 450 m 2 in the Big Buddha Temple Street East, turn left 150 meters. Street East Side, South Side, the largest Buddhist temple, a slight turn to the right to enter the Museum of Fine Arts Street East, 350 meters turn right at an intersection, the road 400 meters towards Fourth Street. mouth :: beach in the Fourth Street mouth :: Beiheyan Street turn left, into Beiheyan Street 5 meters. turn right at an intersection, the road 350 meters towards Fourth Street North Main Street in the north pond mouth and move on Jingshan Front 500 meters.