Do you need to book Yin Ruins / Yinxu palace & royal-tomb site in advance?
Yes — Yin Ruins / Yinxu palace & royal-tomb site in Anyang runs on real-name advance reservation. Release rule: Real-name reservation with your passport via the official 殷墟景区 WeChat account; book a day or more ahead, especially weekends and holiday peaks. A foreign passport works as the real-name ID. No linkable official booking page is recorded. Our record names “Weixin account (its online ticketing / mini app” as a booking route.
Verified 2026-06-13 · rules change; confirm on the official channel before you travel
The booking rule, in detail
- Reservation
- Required in advance
- Tickets release
- Real-name reservation with your passport via the official 殷墟景区 WeChat account; book a day or more ahead, especially weekends and holiday peaks
- Foreign passport
- A foreign passport works as the real-name ID.
- Official channel
- No linkable official booking page is recorded. Our record names “Weixin account (its online ticketing / mini app” as a booking route.
How a foreign visitor actually books it
The scenic-area gate runs on real-name entry, so you reserve with your passport through the official 殷墟景区 WeChat account (its online ticketing / mini-program), or buy a foreigner-bookable ticket on Trip.com/Klook. A passport works as the ID. The interface is Chinese-first; the simplest path is to have your hotel reserve it with your passport details. Note this ticket covers the palace-and-temple foundations and the Royal Tombs (Wangling) only — the new Yinxu Museum is a separate ticket and a separate reservation (see below).
What else to know
We link no official booking page here — the scenic area sells through its own 殷墟景区 WeChat mini-program plus listed OTAs, and we could not verify a single clean official ticketing domain (the area's ayyx.com would not load reliably for us). Since the new museum opened in 2024 the site ticket has been split out at around ¥50 and covers the palace/temple foundations plus the Royal Tombs (王陵遗址), which sit a few km north and are linked by a free shuttle — this is the Bronze Age Shang capital where the oracle bones, the chariot pits and the tomb of Fu Hao were found. The older ¥70 'all-in' figure you'll still see quoted online pre-dates the museum split; confirm at booking. A combined ticket bundling the site and the new museum runs about ¥120.
If the official channel does not work
Do not assume an unrecorded booking route is available. Recheck the operator’s current instructions; where the interface itself is the obstacle, the practical mechanics are in buying tickets the official way and booking without WeChat.
Other Anyang sights and their booking rules
- National Museum of Chinese Writing / Chinese Characters Museum book ahead
- Red Flag Canal scenic area, Linzhou book ahead
- Yinxu Museum / new Yin Ruins Museum book ahead
Full city context, hotels that register foreigners, and what to eat: Anyang guide. Release times across every city we track are in Reservation Radar.