Wudaokou

You cannot talk about Beijing without mentioning Wudaokou (五道口). Situated in Haidian District, it is becoming an increasingly popular commercial center in Beijing. It is a great place for hanging out, be at night or during the day. There is a big variety of restaurants, ranging from Chinese, Korean and Japanese to American, Italian, thus making the choice of where to take a meal much broader. Wudaokou is also home to some shopping centers like Lotus centre, Watsons, U-center where you can also find other brand shops like Baleno, Esprit and coffee shops, restaurants, bakeries like Paris Baguette or Tous les jours. The variety of shops you can find there is really big and they usually work until late hours in the night, so night shopping has never been so fun! There are also some clubs like Propaganda, Lush, Zub where the prices are usually relatively lower than other places in Beijing. Morever Wudaokou is an easily accessible place due to its good public transport links including a station on Line 13 (the CityRail line) of the Beijing Subway. Wudaokou is also close to a large number of universities like Beijing University, Tsinghua, BLCU(Beijing Language and Culture University), Geosciences University and many others. As such,it has a large student population,including foreigners. It is hence no big surprise that Wudaokou is now known as an international student area.