Baixiangju Residential Complex

The riverside entrance on the ground floor of Baixiangju is the starting point of the vertical tour. It features two 2-meter stone elephants, a 1990s residential block hugging the Yangtze and the famous air-raid-shelter-turned-café that has become a viral photo spot for the Chongqing skyline and cable car.

Built in 1996, this 24-floor residential block has no elevator. The 10th-floor corridor links the three towers of the complex, offering unobstructed views of the Yangtze, the cable car, the Raffles City skyline and the Yangtze River Bridge—an iconic filming and viral-photography location famous for Chongqing's "8D magic."

This framed cable-car shot, captured from the 10th-floor corridor's east end with a 2–3x telephoto lens, places the Yangtze Cable Car and Baixiangju's 24-story walk-up in the same frame. The result—an "8D" composition of building, cable car and river—has become a must-shoot for photographers worldwide.

This 15th-floor exit connects Baixiangju to Jiefang East Road and the Luohan Temple area via a 30-step descent. The platform offers a striking 3D-traffic view of Jiefang East Road, Minzu Road, Cangbai Road, the cable car and double-decker buses, marking the official end of the Baixiangju vertical tour.