Eight Passes Scenic Area is located in the east of Qingdao. It is a famous picturesque sanitarium area. This place used to have eight avenues that were named after eight famous passes in China, hence the name. After the People's Liberation, two more avenues were built in the area and there are now actually ten avenues. However, its name still remains.

The luxuriant flowers and trees make here a place of picturesque scenery. Luxuriant trees growing along each avenue provide a pleasant shade in Eight Passes Scenic Area. Moreover, there is a vast array of different flowers, which form a quiet, clean and beautiful environment all year-round. Flowers and trees in each of the ten avenues are different. The flowers also bloom in different seasons and give this area its other beautiful name, such as Hua Jie, which means a flowery street.

Furthermore, Eight Passes features its garden-like villas and foreign-styled buildings. Eight Passes Scenic Area used to be a place where people from more than twenty countries, like Britain, France, Germany, Russia, America, Denmark, Greece, Switzerland, Spain, Japan and etc., constructed buildings in each of their unique national styles. After the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949, the government repaired the entire area and its buildings, symbolizing Eight Passes' significance as one of the most important sanitaria in China.