Informative museums - Local museum is sometimes regarded as the best place to learn about a city's history and culture. There are various museums in Taiyuan, including Shanxi Museum, the Coal Museum of China, Dong Shouping Art Museum, Taiyuan Liberation Museum, Museum of Geology and Mineral Resources, etc. which all tell the charm of Shanxi. Among them, Shanxi Museum and Coal Museum of China are the first-rate ones to help you get a better understanding of Taiyuan and even Shanxi's history and development.

Different kinds of notable temples - Thanks to its long history, Taiyuan nurtured a whole wealth of cultural sites, such as Jinci Temple, Twin Pagoda Temple, Chongshan Temple As the earliest classical ancestral temple garden building complex in China, Jinci Temple is the biggest highlight of Taiyuan. The pagodas in Twin Pagoda Temple made by bricks are gorgeous as well.

Gateway to other destinations of Shanxi - Owoing Shanxi's only international airport, Taiyuan can be reached by several international flights and many domestic flights. Besides, it is well connected with many cities by high speed rails. Therefore, Taiyuan is a good start point of Shanxi. After your travel in Taiyuan, you can easily reached Shanxi's other tourist destination, like Datong, Pingyao, Xinzhou (Mount Wutai) and Linfen (Hukou Waterfall).