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First take a taxi to Beijing Hotel (Beijing Fandian), which was opened as the Grand Hotel de Pekin in 1917 under French management. Enter at the east wing ( Building A ), on the Wangfujing Dajie(street), and wander through the lobby, from the old grand piano to the shopping arcades. Unfortunately, much of the middle section of the hotel was recently remodeled, but try to take a peek at the grand (very grand) old ballrooms at the top of the lobby staircases.

Outside Beijing Hotel, turn east and go up the first street on your left, Wangfujing Dajie. On your right you will see a large book store and large Mcdonald's sign where the largest arts and crafts store is located.






Sheng Xi Fu Hat Shop and Donglaishun Hotpot. Sheng Xi Fu Hat Store is a famous century old hat store - round hats, flat hats, small hats, big hats -- if it is a hat you are looking for this is certainly the place to start. Donglaishun is the best Mandarin hot-pot restaurant in Beijing is Donglaishun, on Wangfujing, the Fifth Avenue in Beijing. The mutton slices here are finer and thinner than anywhere else.



On your right hand, you will find a alley called Wangfujing Traditional Food. You will find lots of people coming in and out of a narrow street. Well, this is the famous Wangfujing open air daytime food street. You may follow the flow of people to have a bite of the local flavors.





After enjoying the local food, turn back to the main street - Wangfujing Street. On your right side, inside a lane, you see the famous Wangfujing Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant and Tianjin Goubuli Snack Restaurant.













On your right side, you see Wangfujing Department Store. This was once Beijing's big-time department store. Though having had a face-lift, it still looks aging, sprawling.



Sun Dong An Plaza (No.138), By way of abrupt contrast, at the next cross street (called Dong'anmen Dajie to the east, Jinyu Hutong to the west), head over to the other side of Wangfujing, and enter a 21st-century department store: Sun Dong An Plaza (no. 138), Beijing's glitziest shopping plaza, where you can wander for hours among its seven levels and multiple atriums, complete with glass elevators and chrome escalators. Bossini, London Fog, Burberrys, Flying Scotsmen. They're all here, along with a Mickey Mouse logo store (Toonsland), a Nike store, a McDonalds, and an espresso bar named Boodles. (There's also a Bank of China branch on the first floor, open weekdays only.) The supermarket, electronics, and large appliances are in the basement, and deeper in the labyrinth are eight movie theaters. You can find lots of old Beijing stuff on the underground floor, a teahouse, Beijing local prducts etc. Back out on the streets, convinced that Beijing has indeed caught up with the consuming nations of the West, cross back over to the west side of Wangfujing.

Foreign Language Bookstore (No. 235). This is a must for anyone interested in books, since it houses Beijing's largest selection of English-language materials on several floors. Just a few steps north, you are out of the walking street.



Now you are facing a across road. If it is dinner time, then we suggest you turn right where you enjoy local food on the famous Donghuamen evening food street from 18:00 to 21:30. As you continue north, look across Wangfujing. You can catch sight of a massive Catholic Cathedral, St. Joseph's (Dongtang), which looks beautiful after a recent renovation.

On the west side of the street you pass：
Tong Sheng He Shoes, Kodak, China Silk Shop (No. 133, quite small), and a tea shop at no. 119 with a nice selection of pots and a big drug' store. This brings you to a second major intersection, Dengshikou street, with the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Hotel and the massive One World Department Store on opposite corners. It's time to: take a break. Wangfujing is filled with cafes and restaurants, inside and outside major hotels, but one bright new spot to pause is Timeless Medley, in the basement of the Tianlun Dynasty Hotel, 50 Wangfujing Dajie, open daily from 11am to 1am. Choose from more than 200 local snacks and enjoy the decor (famous Chinese movie scenes) in what's described as Beijing's first cafe to combine film and food culture. In the final block of your stroll up Wangfujing, you'll pass some new Western-style cafes (Boulevard Bistro, Red Lion Restaurant) and two Beijing institutions (the very strange subterranean Banpo Primitive Hot Pot Beer Hut, 26 Wangfujing Dajie, and the Capital Theater, 22 Wangfujing Dajie, which sometimes stages Western dramas).
At the big intersection with Wusi Dajie, visit the：

China Art Gallery (Zhongguo Meishuguan), 1 Wusi Dajie, which is the national art gallery of China and always worth a visit.

Ok, let turn back t and walk back again to Sun Dong An Plaza (No. 138), then turn right and you enter the Jinyu Hutong.

Three hotels on Jinyu Hutong Taiwan Hotel, Peace Novotel Hotel and Palace Hotel. The Palace Hotel, 8 Jinyu Hutong, with a waterfall in the marble lobby. The basement has the highest-end shopping in China, with the nation's first Armani, to go along with Cartier, Hermes, and others.
The lobby is a refreshing spot for tea or coffee before returning to Dongdan.

At the end of Jinyu Hutong, you turn right and walk southward along Dongdan Street. On the left you will find Dahua Cinema where. You may enjoy a Chinese film. Opposit the cinema you find the Capital Hospital.

Capital Hospital (Peking Union Medical Hospital, Xiehe Yiyuan), with an emergency clinic for foreign patients on the sixth floor. Part of this medical complex is in the mansion of a Qing Dynasty prince, part in a modern high-rise. The hospital was founded in 1915 and underwritten for decades by American millionaire John.Rockefeller.

Now you come across Oriental Plaza - the largest complex in Wanfujing area built by a Hong Kong Tycoon--Mr Li Jiachen where you can have a window shopping.



To close this journey, head west to the Beijing Hotel.