Ba Da Guan (Chinese: 八大关, Pinyin: Bādàguān), the eight passes, famous for its gardens and roads, is a major tourist-attraction close to the coast of Qingdao. It's made up of eight streets named after the eight great military forts of the ancient times. Along the streets are many classic European houses built when Qingdao was a German protectorate (1897-1914).

Ba Da Guan must be one of China's great centers for wedding photography. On nearly any day one can see tens of newlywed couples being photographed along Ba Da Guan's shoreline and greenspace.

The Badaguan is a general designation of several crisscrossing roads. The eight roads are all named after eight strategic passes of the famous Great Wall in China. They are Shanhaiguan, Zhengyangguan, Jiayuguan, Wushengguan, Zijingguan, Ningwuguan, Juyongguan and Shaoguan. The terrain of these eight roads is undulant.

Since Ming and Qing Dynasty, the people in Qingdao likes to plant different kinds of flowers that blooming in different seasons on both sides of the roads, such as crape myrtle, Chinese flowering crabapple, green peach and cedar. When the flowers bloom, all roads, even pedestrians and the vehicles are embraced with the sea of flowers.

You will not believe that you will see a group of modern villa in the middle of the historic sites. Those western style buildings are built according to the terrain and the mountain. They are over 80 exquisite buildings crossing the eight roads. The red walls, green tiles red flowers and green leaves are brilliant, they form this special scenery.