Last updated: 7 November 2026
Direct answer. Buy through the official Visiting Beijing Parks platform: its WeChat account, its website or its mini program. Choose the park, date and time slot, enter each visitor's details, pay online, then scan the e-ticket at the gate with your passport. Passports and permanent residence permits are accepted.
Foreign visitors book Beijing municipal park tickets in real name through the official Visiting Beijing Parks platform. Here are the channels, the steps and the park list.
Beijing's municipal parks run on one shared real-name booking platform, and the city's English service guide explains how a foreign visitor gets a ticket on it. That explanation is short, so this page walks through it step by step, states which parks the platform covers and which do not, and then separates what the official text says from what it leaves out. If your Beijing plan is built around the Palace Museum instead, the separate Forbidden City ticket rules apply, because that museum sells through its own system.
The official ticketing platform is "Visiting Beijing Parks" . It exists in three forms, and the English guide treats them as equivalent routes to the same inventory:
Two of the three routes live inside WeChat. If you do not use WeChat, the website is the route that does not require it.
The English guide lists the parks whose tickets are sold on "Visiting Beijing Parks". This is the list as published, not a ranking:
| Park | On the shared platform |
|---|---|
| Summer Palace | Yes |
| Temple of Heaven | Yes |
| Beihai Park | Yes |
| Jingshan Park | Yes |
| Zhongshan Park | Yes |
| Xiangshan Park | Yes |
| Beijing Zoo | Yes |
| Yuyuantan Park | Yes |
| Taoranting Park | Yes |
Three exceptions are stated on the same page, and they matter more than the list itself:
So "Beijing park tickets" is not one single checkout. Nine parks share one, one park needs nothing, one has a separate guide, and the rest are outside this page's scope entirely.
Once you are inside the platform with the language set to English, the guide's Step 2 tells you to find the park, read the "Kind reminder" and tap "Start". Step 3 then describes the checkout fields:
The guide adds one line on identity: foreign visitors can purchase tickets with passports or permanent residence permits. That line is the part most relevant to a foreign traveller, because it confirms the platform accepts a passport number as the real-name credential rather than requiring a Chinese ID.
Step 4 is about the ticket you already hold. After payment you tap "Return" to view the e-ticket, and "My Ticket" holds the details if you need them again. Entry is by scanning the QR code of the e-ticket, and the guide states that a valid ID such as your passport must be presented at the same time.
Practical reading: the passport is not only a booking credential, it is also the document you show on entry. Carry the same passport you booked with.
The official explanation is deliberately procedural. It gives no prices, no per-park opening hours, no refund or change rules, and no statement about how far in advance booking opens. Those four gaps are the ones travellers most often ask about, and this page will not fill them from memory or from resale listings. For prices and hours, the park's own notice or the platform's park page is the place to look; for cancellation terms, the platform's order page is. If you are still choosing where to base yourself in the city, the Beijing city guide and the airport-to-city transfer guide cover the logistics side, and the pre-trip checklist covers documents.
One further caution: the guide's page is a service instruction, not a commercial offer. Nothing on it guarantees availability on a given day or time slot.
No. The official guide states that foreign visitors can purchase tickets with passports or permanent residence permits, so a passport number is accepted as the real-name credential at checkout.
Nine: the Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven, Beihai Park, Jingshan Park, Zhongshan Park, Xiangshan Park, Beijing Zoo, Yuyuantan Park and Taoranting Park. Other parks use their own platforms.
No. The official guide describes Zizhuyuan Park as a free-admission park that needs no reservation.
The official page describes online real-name booking only, and does not state whether on-site purchase is available at each park. Treat that as an open question and check the individual park's notice.
The QR code of the e-ticket from "My Ticket", together with a valid ID such as the passport you booked with.
All sources retrieved 7 November 2026. This page is an independent reading of the sources listed; the official pages themselves are the specification.
| Fact used on this page | Source |
|---|---|
| S1 — Four-step procedure; the three official channels of "Visiting Beijing Parks"; the nine parks on the platform; the Botanical Garden PDF guide; Zizhuyuan free admission without reservation; other parks on their own platforms; checkout fields (date, time period, number of visitors, visitor information, payment); passports and permanent residence permits accepted; e-ticket via "Return" and "My Ticket"; entry by QR code plus valid ID | Beijing Municipal Government English service guide, page retrieved 7 November 2026 https://english.beijing.gov.cn/quickguideservices/purchaseparktickets/index.html |
| S2 — Official ticketing website domain of the "Visiting Beijing Parks" platform, printed on the same page | Beijing Municipal Government English service guide, page retrieved 7 November 2026 https://www.bjgyol.com.cn |