China Snow Town Travel Guide (With Food, Accommodation, Transportation, and Itinerary)

China Snow Town has good snow quality and high viscosity. In winter, you can ski, play snow tubing, or take a snowmobile to the mountain to watch the sunrise in the morning. It is the best place to go for winter tourism every year. China Snow Town is also known as a dreamland, with beautiful scenery everywhere.

I. Best Time

Snow falls in Mudanjiang Snow Town from October to April of the following year. The editor suggests that the best time to visit Snow Town is from late December to early March.

II. Scenic Spot Address

Address: About 14 kilometers south of Zhengbeigou on National Highway 333 in Hailin City, Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province

Official Phone Number: 400-000-0453

III. Snow Town Travel Guide

China Snow Town Monument

After entering the Snow Town scenic area, the first stop we come to is the China Snow Town Monument. As a landmark building of Snow Town, everyone should remember to check in and take pictures here!

Snow Rhyme Street

Next, walk past the China Snow Town Monument, and we arrive at the main road of the Snow Town scenic area – Snow Rhyme Street. Food, drinks, and entertainment are all here!

What can you do on Snow Rhyme Street?

You can go to the Snow Town post office to send a postcard, filled with joy, sorrow, and longing; you can go to the Snow Culture Exhibition Hall to trace the history and connotation of snow culture; you can also have a frozen persimmon, feeling the coolness and sweetness between your lips and teeth; you can also look at the lovely sled dogs on the street and play with them. Looking at their cute appearance, will it awaken the purest side of your heart?

Highlights: In winter, Snow Rhyme Street has thick snow. Except for the inside of houses, no matter when you go, you will be stepping on snow. In fact, you don’t need to go to those expensive attractions, the scenery on both sides is actually very beautiful.

Shopping: There are many frozen pears and peaches here, probably preserved according to traditional Northeast methods. Hazelnuts, pine nuts and other nuts, it is recommended not to buy here, they are cheaper in the city. There are also blueberry jams, those who don’t know them might even buy blackcurrant jam instead. Ice cream doesn’t need a refrigerator, it’s sold directly outdoors. After all, it’s minus twenty degrees.

Dreamland

The next stop, follow the editor to check in the most famous scenic spot – Dreamland. The wooden log houses stacked with thick snow are scattered and arranged, dreamy and cute.

Standing on the viewing platform behind Dreamland, overlooking the entire Snow Town, whether it’s the scenery of day or night, it’s all a beautiful picture!

Highlights: Snow tubing – You can go to the snow tubing place inside Dreamland and experience the fun of sliding down the ups and downs from high places on a snow tube. (Warm reminder: It’s more fun to ride a snow tube with two people than one!)

Yangcao Mountain

Finally, we arrived at Yangcao Mountain. Here, you can experience fun skiing activities and watch the sunrise and sunset of Yangcao Mountain.

Highlights: Visit the characteristic Snow Rhyme Street, watch the sunrise and sunset of Yangcao Mountain, and then ski on the newly completed ski resort and enjoy dog sledding, etc.

Editor’s Reminder:

① Snow Town is very small, you can basically walk around. It is not recommended to take a horse-drawn sled up Yangcao Mountain, people will feel very cold sitting on it. If you go to the birch forest, you need to walk on the main road, it is recommended to take a horse-drawn sled.

② In Snow Town, you can experience fun skiing, horse-drawn sledding, dog sledding, snowmobiling, snow sightseeing vehicles, etc. Watching the sunrise on Yangcao Mountain in the morning is very worthwhile.

③ Photographic equipment should be kept warm, put it in a bag when not in use, or take the battery off and place it in a warm place inside your clothes.

IV. Snow Town Accommodation

1. Snow Rhyme Pavilion Boutique Folk Customs

Snow Rhyme Pavilion Folk Customs is located in the Dabecai residential area of Snow Town. There are 6 folk customs inns with unique characteristics of the forest area, which can accommodate 400 people at the same time. The service here is meticulous, the facilities are complete, it is clean and tidy, with independent bathrooms, and characteristic electric heated kang. One room can accommodate 2-3 people, and it is a high-standard characteristic boutique folk customs kang hotel in the Snow Town scenic area. The environment here is quiet and the transportation is convenient. It is about 5-6 minutes walk from Snow Rhyme Street.

2. Snow Rhyme Pavilion Grand Hotel

China Snow Town Snow Rhyme Pavilion Grand Hotel is located on Snow Rhyme Street, the core scenic area of Snow Town. It is a comprehensive hotel in the Snow Town scenic area, integrating catering, accommodation, leisure and entertainment, and business. The hotel has A, B, C, D, E and other areas, with presidential suites, business suites, deluxe double rooms, deluxe triple rooms, deluxe king rooms, ordinary standard rooms and other characteristic room types. Here, you can not only enjoy high-standard star-rated service, but also experience the accommodation environment with the characteristics of the Northeast forest area.

3. Primitive Wooden House Villa (Wooden Log Villa)

The primitive wooden house cluster south of Snow Town Theater is the most characteristic accommodation facility under the Snow Rhyme Pavilion Grand Hotel. The primitive wooden house cluster consists of 4 primitive wooden houses, truly reproducing the daily life of the Northeast people. Surrounding it are mills, mills, tofu shops and other production and living buildings with Northeast characteristics. The interior decoration and furnishings truly reproduce the most primitive living environment of the Northeast forest area.

4. Snow Rhyme Pavilion Folk Customs Inn

Snow Rhyme Pavilion Folk Customs Inn is located in the Dabecai residential area of Snow Town. There are 11 folk customs inns with unique characteristics of the forest area, which can accommodate 800 people at the same time. The service here is meticulous, the facilities are complete, it is clean and tidy, with independent bathrooms, and characteristic electric heated kang. One room can accommodate 2-3 people, and it is a high-standard characteristic boutique folk customs kang hotel in the Snow Town scenic area. The environment here is quiet and the transportation is convenient. It is about 5-6 minutes walk from Snow Rhyme Street.

V. Characteristic Food

Snow Town dishes mainly use stewing, stir-frying, braising, roasting and other cooking methods. They are coarse in appearance, heavy in color, and strong in flavor, all of which are made from vegetables grown by local residents, wild vegetables picked from the forest, and poultry raised by themselves.

Snow Town specialties include Snow Town Eight Great Stews, Snow Town Eight Great Stir-fries, Snow Town Eight Great Sautéed Dishes, and Snow Town Eight Great Cold Dishes. “Snow Town Eight Great Stews” have become famous throughout the country thanks to “A Bite of China Season 2”. Sitting on the heated kang in the homes of Snow Town people, eating chicken stewed with mushrooms, pork stewed with vermicelli, and glutinous rice dumplings, tasting the deliciousness of mountain delicacies, listening to the legends of the mountains, you truly have the feeling of “leisurely looking at the southern mountains”. In the self-service restaurants in Snow Town, the variety of food is rich, including specialty hot pots and specialty barbecues. Especially the iron pot stewed cold water fish, “seven meats and eight vegetables” dishes plus the original cold water fish, add old soup, then stew cornmeal pancakes on the pot wall, gurgling and simmering until it’s rotten and mushy. Eat it with the soup and vegetables, that’s what you call a hearty meal!

VI. Transportation Guide

High-speed Rail and Bullet Train Lines (Latest)

Harbin → Yabuli → Snow Town (Take the high-speed rail or bullet train to Yabuli, then take the Longyun direct bus to Snow Town)

Mudanjiang → Yabuli → Snow Town (Take the high-speed rail or bullet train to Yabuli, then take the Longyun direct bus to Snow Town)

Direct Bus (See Snow Town Tourism Direct Bus Schedule)

Harbin → Snow Town (Longyun direct bus); Mudanjiang → Snow Town (Longyun direct bus); Yabuli → Snow Town (Longyun direct bus)

Airplane and Train Lines

Airplane: After arriving at Harbin or Mudanjiang airport by flight, take the Longyun direct bus to Snow Town

Train: Take the train to Yabuli, then take the Longyun direct bus to Snow Town

Snow Town Tourism Direct Bus Schedule

(The following is the 2020-2021 schedule. The 2022 schedule has not been released yet. The editor will update the latest schedule later)