Meijiawu Tea Village
梅家坞茶文化村
A Longjing tea village with contiguous tea fields and dense farmhouse teahouses along Meiling Road. It is ideal for drinking tea, eating farm dishes and watching tea-picking.
Meijiawu lies south of the Meiling Tunnel in the southwest of West Lake and is one of the first-grade Longjing tea-producing areas. It stretches about ten li along both sides of Meiling Road, earning it the name “Ten-Li Meiwu.” The village has a Zhou Enlai memorial room, as he visited many times. Its tea fields form a larger, contiguous area than those of Longjing Village, and farmhouse teahouses and farm restaurants are densely clustered. It is an ideal place to drink a cup of Longjing among the tea gardens and eat farm dishes such as tea-scented chicken and dried bamboo shoots. In spring, you can join the tea-picking or watch the tea being pan-fried. The village is open all day and free to enter, though teahouse spending is extra. Getting there: take the Longjing Line bus (formerly Bus 121), or ride from the direction of Yunqi Bamboo Path. Parking by car is difficult on weekends. Combine it with Yunqi Bamboo Path, Longjing Village and Jiuxi's Eighteen Brooks for a half-day tea-hills tour.
Opening hours
Open all day; teahouse approx. 08:00–20:00
Nearby sights
- Bamboo Path at Yunqi
- Shili Langdang Trail
- Longjing Village
- Nine Creeks and Eighteen Gullies
- Faxi Temple
- Songcheng Park & Romance of the Song Dynasty
- Yongfu Temple
- Manjuelong