Chongqing · Photography
Kuixinglou Building Ground-to-22nd-Floor Illusion
魁星楼(1楼即22楼)
Kuixinglou, the building where you can walk in at street level on one side and step out onto what looks like the 22nd floor on the other.
What you’ll do
Kuixinglou, the building where you can walk in at street level on one side and step out onto what looks like the 22nd floor on the other.
- Best for
- Travellers collecting the places where the city's vertical geography becomes a joke you can stand inside.
- Travel party
- Solo, Couple, Friends
- Skip this if
- Anyone expecting a managed attraction, since it is a working building
- How long
- 20–40 min
- Cost per person
- CNY 0
- When it opens
- daytime
- Best time to go
- daytime for the sky bridge view
- Do I need to book?
- Not required
- How early?
- not needed
- Can foreign visitors join?
- easy
- Language help
- high (no interpretation on site at all)
- How to book
- not required
Where to book
We have not found a booking option we are confident recommending yet.
How we checked it
Verified · 2026-09-26
Kuixinglou is listed by Ctrip with a from-price of zero and by Qunar's city-walk itinerary as free and open all day, so it is treated as a free stop rather than a ticketed attraction. It sits at 17 Datang Square, Linjiangmen, Yuzhong district, and the point of the visit is the vertical trick Chongqing is known for: the footbridge you step onto reads as ground level but is roughly the 22nd floor of the block below, which is the same illusion the Liziba monorail is famous for. It is a short stop, not a half-day, hence the 20-40 minute window. Being a working residential tower and a public walkway, there is no booking and no ticket, and it is worth reminding readers to keep noise down. English support is not applicable and left unconfirmed.
m.qunar.com source ↗ · checked 2026-09-26