黄鶴楼(ホァンフーロー)
Huanghelou Pavilion/Yellow Crane Tower

黄鶴楼は、武昌(かつては市であったが、今では武漢の一部)の蛇山にあり、江西省(Jiangxi Province)の南昌(Nanchang)にある騰王閣、湖南省(Hunan Province)の岳陽(Yueyang)にある岳陽楼と並んで江南三大名楼と呼ばれている。
三国時代に建てられてから1700年もの間、数多くの詩人、作家がこの建物を題材にして作品を作ったことからも、その美しさがわかる。
現代のものは、1981年に清代のものをモデルに再建された。(出典: 地球の歩き方)

Yellow Crane Tower, located on Snake Hill in Wuchang (former city, since 1950 part of Wuhan), is one of the "Three Famous Towers South of Yangtze River (the other two: Yueyang Tower in Yueyang City in Hunan Province and Tengwang Tower in Nanchang City in Jiangxi Province).

Legend goes that that here used to be a wine-shop opened by a young man surnamed Xin. One day, a Taoist priest, in order to thank the man for his favor of free wine, drew a magic crane on the wall and told it to dance on hearing claps. Since then, thousands of people came to see the spectacle and the wine shop was always full of guests. After 10 years, when the Taoist priest's revisit the wine shop, he played the flute and then rode on the crane to the sky. In order to memorize the supernatural encounter and the priest, the Xins built a tower here named Yellow Crane Tower. (more information: Travel China Guide.Com and Yangtze River Tour.Com)