Nantong City currently has one 5A-level scenic spot, which is: Nantong Haohe Scenic Area, and five 4A-level Nantong Haohe Scenic Areas, namely: Langshan Scenic Area, Nantong Museum Garden, Nantong Abacus Museum, Rugao Water Painting Garden,
Dieshiqiao Home Textile Industry Tourism Zone.
Haohe Scenic Area: River breeze and sea charm, beautiful scenery.
The 30-mile-long Hao River surrounds the ancient city and is praised by domestic and foreign tourists as "the jade necklace around a girl's neck." The museum group along the Hao River that is being planned and developed will give the city a deeper cultural connotation.
[93] In January 2014, Nantong Haohe Night Tour was selected as one of the "Top Ten Enchanting Night Scenes in the Yangtze River Delta".
Langshan Scenic Area: a national 4A-level tourist scenic spot. It is one of the six natural scenic spots in Jiangsu Province. Langshan ranks first among the eight famous Buddhist mountains in the country. Since the expansion of Guangjiao Temple in the early Tang Dynasty, it has been very popular and famous.
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Known as the first mountain in the world, it is 106.94 meters high.
Langshan is the dojo of Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva, one of the three sages of Western Buddhism. The mountain also enshrines the only Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva wearing a dragon robe.
Langshan is also one of the twelve major Catholic pilgrimage sites in the country, and the only Catholic holy site in the middle and north of the Yangtze River Basin. The Catholic Church at the northern foot of Langshan has been granted plenary amnesty by several edicts from the Holy See, making it one of the most popular places in the Far East.
Enjoy high religious status and influence.
Nantong Museum: Located on the bank of the Hao River in the southeast of Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, with beautiful scenery, it was founded in 1905 by Zhang Jian, a pioneer in the modernization of China's early Nantong Museum period and the number one scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. It is the earliest museum in China.
When it was first built, it occupied an area of ??35 acres. The collections were divided into four departments: real estate, history, fine arts, and education. They were mainly displayed in the South Hall, North Hall and other exhibition halls, while large cultural relic specimens were displayed outdoors.
The garden is widely planted with flowers, trees, and rare birds and animals, echoing the indoor exhibits, and various garden facilities are embellished therein, creating an elegant, refined, yet relaxed and leisurely atmosphere.
This combination of museum and park features reflects the founder’s unique museum concept.
In 1988, Nantong Museum was announced by the State Council as a key cultural relics protection unit in China.
[93] Nantong Abacus Museum: Located on the banks of the beautiful Hao River.
The museum covers an area of ??30 acres, with a construction area of ??6,000 square meters and a collection of more than 6,000 abacus cultural relics. It is currently the largest abacus-themed museum in the world.
The main building of the museum is novel, unique and well-proportioned. It is divided into three parts: the Bogujianjin Hall (exhibition hall), Kaixin Qizhiyuan (children's abacus mental arithmetic school) and the Binhe Style Area (landscape).
Dieshiqiao Home Textile Industry Tourism Zone: Located in Sanxing Town, Haimen City, it mainly consists of two parts: the China Dieshiqiao Home Textile Nantong Langshan Textile Museum and the core trading area.
Among them, the Dieshiqiao Home Textile Museum is mainly composed of four parts: the Dieshiqiao Industrial History Museum, the Dieshiqiao Home Textile New Town Planning Museum, the Chinese Home Textile Fashion Trend Museum, the Chinese Home Textile Brand Cultivation Museum, and the tourism home textile product area.
Rugao Water Painting Garden: More than 300 years ago, Mao Pijiang, one of the four princes of the late Ming Dynasty, and Dong Xiaowan, one of the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai, performed a romantic love story in the Water Painting Garden and tasted the Dongtang created by Dong Xiaowan himself.
There is no shortage of places to explore in Baili County.
Qingdun Cultural Site in Hai'an, Water Painting Garden and Dinghui Temple in Rugao, Wen Tianxiang's Nanguidu Sea Pavilion in Tongzhou, "Sea Disco" (clam stepping) and "Air Symphony" (kite flying on the seaside) in Rudong, Qidong's Yuan
Tuojiao Guanri Pavilion and other famous places are well-known.
In addition, Nantong Underwater World also met the public in 2007. Nantong tourism product development has also made great progress. The number of self-driving tourism bases and leisure farms has increased, and tourist resorts have begun to take shape. The "Puffer Fish Food Festival" and "Jianghai Tourism Festival"
Its influence is expanding day by day, and its tourism product system is becoming richer.
Nantong has a first-class quality and beautiful living and tourism environment. The Haohe River located in the city center has a unique splendid style of the city embracing the water and the water surrounding the city. It won the "2005 China Human Settlements Environment Example Award".