Universal Studios Beijing
— a Hollywood backlot built on the Tongzhou plain.
Not only on a wall.
“Universal Studios Beijing opened in September 2021 in Tongzhou District, the city's eastern subcentre, about an hour by Metro Line 7 from central Beijing. Seven themed lands sit around a central lagoon: Minion Land, Transformers Metrobase, Kung Fu Panda's Land of Awesomeness, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Jurassic World Isla Nublar, Hollywood, and WaterWorld. It is Universal's first park on the Chinese mainland.
Universal Studios Beijing, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Universal Studios Beijing sits in Tongzhou District, about 26 kilometres east of Tiananmen Square and reached by Beijing Subway Line 7 and the Batong line. Construction began in 2015 on roughly four square kilometres of former farmland, and the park opened to the public on 20 September 2021 after a one-week soft launch. It operates as a joint venture between Universal Parks and Resorts and the state-owned Beijing Shouhuan Cultural Tourism Investment, the third Universal park in Asia after Osaka and Singapore.
The park opens at 10 in the morning and closes at 7 or 8 in the evening, with longer hours during the Golden Week holiday and Spring Festival. A standard one-day ticket runs between 418 and 748 yuan depending on the date tier, with an Express Pass adding significant cost. The official Universal Beijing Resort app handles reservations, queue times, and mobile food orders. Most international visitors take Line 7 to Universal Resort Station, which exits directly into CityWalk, the open-air retail street.
The peak crowds fall during the seven-day National Day Golden Week in early October and across Spring Festival in late January or February, when same-day tickets often sell out by mid-morning. Summer school holidays from late June into August bring heavy domestic family traffic. Halloween Horror Nights run on selected October evenings, and the park dresses for Christmas through December. February air can drop below freezing on the lagoon, so the WaterWorld show goes seasonal.