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The Lan Su Chinese Garden offers tranquil garden paths and a cozy tea house. The Lan Su Chinese Garden offers tranquil garden paths and a cozy tea house.
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The Lan Su Chinese Garden offers tranquil garden paths and a cozy tea house.
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Lan Su Chinese Garden

Find respite and celebrate Chinese culture at a Suzhou-style garden in the heart of Portland.

Updated Dec. 11, 2020 Old Town Chinatown

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COVID-19 Update: Lan Su Chinese Garden is open. Timed ticket reservations are required and a limited number of tickets are offered per day. Parties are limited to 6 people per group due to the current state mandate on group sizes.

The Tao of Tea teahouse is offering to-go service with some outdoor seating, but visitors cannot access the Tower of Cosmic Reflections.

All group-based activities have been suspended, including docent-led group tours. Visitors are encouraged to use the new Discover Lan Su mobile app that includes an audio tour of the Garden and interactive scavenger hunts for K-5 kids.

See the latest health and safety guidelines related to COVID-19 on the Lan Su Chinese Garden’s website.

A year-round wonder, the Lan Su Chinese Garden is an authentic Ming Dynasty style garden, built by Suzhou artisans, that takes up an entire block of the city’s historic Chinatown district. Since the garden’s opening in 2000, its covered walkways, bridges, open colonnades, pavilions and richly planted landscape framing the man-made Zither Lake have created an urban oasis of tranquil beauty and harmony. It’s an inspiring, serene setting for meditation, quiet thought and tea served at The Tao of Tea in the Tower of Cosmic Reflections, as well as public tours of the grounds led by expert horticulturalists.

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Over a span of two weeks each winter, Lan Su’s Chinese New Year Celebration packs the calendar full of festivities that explore the culture and history of the Eastern holiday.

Though the grounds provide a peaceful escape, periodic events give the garden a festive atmosphere. Over a span of two weeks each winter, Lan Su’s Chinese New Year Celebration packs the calendar full of festivities that explore the culture and history of the Eastern holiday. Beginning on the final day of the last month of the Chinese calendar (typically late January or early February), the festivities include paper lantern viewings, calligraphy demonstrations and lion dance performances.

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Feb. 12–28, 2021

Chinese New Year

Lan Su Chinese Garden $12.95 General; $11.95 Senior (62+), $9.95 Student (6-18 or with ID), $0 Children (5-)

Portland’s favorite Chinese New Year celebration is back at Lan Su Chinese Garden. Celebrate Chinese New Year, the most colorful and joyous of all Chinese festivals during Lan Su’s two-week celebration featuring hanging red lanterns, contact-free scavenger hunt, festival audio tour, cultural displays, and much more! On the first day of the festival, every visitor…

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