Tour Description
Tour Description
Just a hundred meters south of Beijing's Drum Tower, one of the capital's oldest hutongs (traditional alleyways) is easy to overlook. A narrow alley off a busy road, it's rather innocuous when there are no crowds of people clamoring at its entrance. Yandai Xiejie hutong's name translates to "smoking pipe" street, a remnant of the Qing dynasty days when the street was filled with stores selling tobacco and pipes.

