Deqing County, Huzhou · Zhejiang, China · north of Hangzhou

Moganshan

A mountain that Shanghai built a second life on, and then forgot.

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Rows of clipped tea bushes on a hillside below dark bamboo slopes on an overcast late autumn day, a few village houses at the foot of the slope

8 November 2026Hecun: more than 1,000 mu of tea and a caveHecun is the tea village beside Xiantan, with more than 1,000 mu of tea, a cave cafe whose past is disputed and a magnolia lane. It suits drivers. Without a car it is hard work.

What this mountain is

A hill station built by Shanghai's foreign residents in the 1890s, a bamboo crop that still pays the villages, and a tea that grows nowhere else.

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Things to do

Twenty things, and most of them are a walk. Filter by what you came for.

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Places we have written up

Four properties with a researched page each: our photographs, our description, and what guests said, with sources. The directory of every other place follows.

An empty cleared hillside above misted bamboo ridges, where nothing has been built yet

Four Seasons Resort MoganshanFour Seasons announced a 90-key resort at Moganshan in September 2025, opening in 2030. Nothing is open yet, so here is what to book instead.

Before you bookHow to choose What a minsu is Every hotel, named Private villas Luxury on the mountain

Every place to stay, by kind

809 listings, grouped by what each name says it is, five at a time. Photographs, scores and rates are Trip.com's; the order is review count.

The 12 best hotels, ranked

Mantian Resort
Deqing · 9.4/10
From US$138
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Mogan Dreamlohas Sunrise Resort Hotel
Deqing · 9.5/10
From US$155
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Moganshan Liangshe Health Resort Hotel
Deqing · 8.1/10
From US$105
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Moyu Shanju Resort Villa
Deqing · 9.9/10
From US$61
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Forest Children·Peak View Resort Hotel (Moganshan Scenic Area)
Deqing · 9.6/10
From US$152
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Getting here is three moves, not one

A train to Deqing, a road up to the town, and a change of vehicle at the scenic area barrier. Most pages describe only the first.

All routes

Shanghai Hongqiaoor Hangzhou EastHigh speed train63 to 80 min13 to 17 min from Hangzhou
Deqing stationnot Deqing WestShuttle or taxi30 to 40 minRMB 10 or about RMB 100
Moganshan townthe transfer barrierScenic area shuttleno private carstransfer centres 08:00 to 18:00
The mountainthe summit is 720 m

Train tickets

Book the train to Deqing

Rail is the one thing every visitor books before arriving. Two routes, live times, and the three things that go wrong.

Every way in

Shanghai Hongqiao to Deqing
63 to 80 min
13 direct trains a day
RMB 61 to 110, second class
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Hangzhou East to Deqing
13 to 17 min
16 trains a day
RMB 16 to 67, second class
Check times and book The Hangzhou guide

Times, service counts and fares as checked on 5 August 2026. Timetables change with every revision, so read the live list before you pick a train. Booking links go to Trip.com and earn this site a commission at no cost to you.

What to visit

Ten places on the mountain

American and British families built a summer colony up here from 1896, and about 250 of their stone villas are still standing. The rest of the mountain is bamboo, a handful of named sights behind a ticket barrier, and the villages that feed everybody.

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