Big Wild Goose Pagoda & fountain show

大慈恩寺·大雁塔（北广场音乐喷泉）

Fountains dance in front of a 1,300-year-old brick pagoda

⚠ No daytime fountain Tuesdays

Hours

Temple 8am–5:30pm (16 Mar–14 Nov), 8am–5pm off-season, last entry 30 minutes before. Fountain at noon, 4pm, 7pm and 9pm (Tuesdays 7pm and 9pm only)

Tickets

Da Ci'en Temple ¥10 (from 1 Sep 2025), pagoda climb +¥25; fountain free

Address

Inside Da Ci'en Temple, Yanta; the fountain is on the North Square, and Datang Everbright City starts from the South Square

Built in 652 to store the scriptures Xuanzang (the monk from Journey to the West) carried back from India, the pagoda is now a seven-storey square brick tower that feels heavy and slightly off-plumb when you look up at it. Walk the Da Ci'en Temple courtyards by day, then move to the North Square in the evening, when hundreds of jets rise to music with the lit pagoda behind; reviewers keep saying it's bigger than the videos. Temple entry dropped from ¥40 to ¥10 in September 2025.