Le Passage Mohkan Shan is a hotel on Moganshan. Place the mountain first: Zhejiang Province, Huzhou prefecture, Deqing County. Hangzhou lies 60 km south of it, Shanghai 200 to 240 km away. The M50 art district on Shanghai’s Moganshan Road is a different thing entirely, and it soaks up most of the search traffic for the name.
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The dated Chinese record places its beginnings in an old tea factory at Ziling in 2008.
The spelling, which decides what you find
The hotel writes its name as Mohkan Shan. The mountain is Moganshan. Search engines treat those as different words.
So try both. “Le Passage Mohkan Shan” is the property’s own form. “Le Passage Moganshan” is what most people type. If one gives you nothing, run the other.
What the record confirms
Our original property record gives about 28 keys, French founders and a property built for the international market. Guangming Daily (光明日报) adds its location and opening year: a Frenchman rented an abandoned tea factory at Ziling (紫岭村), west of Sanjiuwu, in 2008, the year after naked Home Village began.
Le Passage at Ziling in 2008 and the Lanshukeng site chosen in 2009, Guangming Daily (光明日报), 21 February 2013, tier 2. https://epaper.gmw.cn/gmrb/html/2013-02/21/nw.D110000gmrb_20130221_1-16.htm
The Laoling and Sanjiuwu guide separates these neighbouring villages and the properties that began in each.
Property record, BeyondBorder Group Ltd primary research, 1 to 5 August 2026.
Twenty eight keys sets the scale. The other three below are the only named properties on this mountain that publish a key count.
| Property | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Le Passage Mohkan Shan | about 28 | Ziling (紫岭村) |
| naked Stables | about 121 | On the mountain |
| naked Castle | about 95 | On the mountain |
| Crowne Plaza Deqing Moganshan | about 340 | Wukang, 20 km off the mountain |
Key counts for named properties, BeyondBorder Group Ltd primary research, 1 to 5 August 2026.
The opening year and village are documented in that report. Our sources do not settle current room rates, whether dinner is served or whether there is English at the desk. The phrase “built for the international market” comes from a trade description rather than from the hotel.
In English these get called a country house or a country hotel. The local words differ: minsu (民宿) for a small owner run guesthouse, and yangjiale (洋家乐), literally a foreigner’s farmstay, for the foreign founded ones. Twenty eight keys puts this one above the village minsu scale either way.
The domain no longer resolves
There is a reason so much of that is unchecked. As of 6 August 2026, the property’s own domain, lepassagemohkanshan.com, does not resolve. Type it into a browser and no site loads.
Domain check on lepassagemohkanshan.com, BeyondBorder Group Ltd, 6 August 2026.
If you landed here after a dead link, that is why.
That is not a closure notice. Domains lapse for dull reasons: an unpaid renewal, or a switch to Chinese platforms only. Treat the property as trading until a booking platform tells you otherwise, and confirm your dates before you travel.
You cannot check dates or rates at the source, so work around it.
| What you want | Where to get it |
|---|---|
| Whether it is trading at all | A booking platform. Live, bookable dates are the strongest signal short of a phone call |
| A rate | The platform, for your exact nights |
| Anything specific | The phone number on the live listing. Old pages carry old numbers. Failing that, a travel agent in Yucun |
A cached page with photographs and a room list shows some past moment, not this one.
The wave it arrived with
Its French founders were part of the foreign farmstay trade that grew around Sanjiuwu.
| When | What happened |
|---|---|
| 2007 | Grant Horsfield, a South African, opened naked Home Village at Sanjiuwu, the first yangjiale on the mountain |
| 2008 | Le Passage began in an old tea factory at Ziling |
| 2011 | naked Stables opened |
| Since | Owners from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, the United Kingdom, South Korea and Russia opened properties around Moganshan |
| Now | Guesthouse investment here traces back to 18 different countries |
Foreign investment in Moganshan guesthouses, BeyondBorder Group Ltd primary research, 1 to 5 August 2026.
A French hotel built for foreign guests is ordinary here. The history of the hill station has the dates and the people.
Getting there, and the question we cannot answer
You still have to get there, and the route in is the same for everyone.
| Leg | Detail |
|---|---|
| Rail | Deqing is your station. From Shanghai Hongqiao the run is 63 to 93 minutes, 6 direct trains daily. From Hangzhou East, 13 to 17 minutes on 16 services |
| Last stretch | About 30 to 40 minutes from Deqing station to Moganshan town. Van or taxi about RMB 100, Y1 shuttle RMB 10 |
| The car rule | No private vehicle may pass the scenic area boundary. You change vehicles at Yucun, Fatou or Houwu, whichever serves your road in |
| The window | All three transfer centres open at 08:00 and close at 18:00 |
Rail times, transfer times and scenic area vehicle rules, BeyondBorder Group Ltd primary research, 1 to 5 August 2026.
That 18:00 close is what wrecks evening arrivals. Whether it wrecks yours depends on which side of that boundary your hotel stands. Ask two things when you book: whether the hotel sits inside the scenic area, and which transfer centre serves it.
One last trap. No station called Moganshan exists today: the old one in Wukang, the county town, is now Deqing West, on the slow line, so book Deqing; Deqing station: which exit, which taxi, which bus explains. Getting around has the shuttle timetable and the transfer centres in full.
What to do with this page
Use it as a checklist, not a review. Search both spellings, confirm on a platform that rooms are on sale, get a rate in writing, and ask whether you will be sleeping inside the scenic area.
Four things would change this page: a stay, an answered phone call, a dated rate sheet, and a website that loads. None has happened. The hotel list covers the other named properties, and where to stay explains why village and price band matter more here than brand.
Rail times and transfer centre hours are current as of 6 August 2026, and so is the domain check.
Last checked 1 November 2026 by Echo Peng. Prices, timetables and entry rules on this mountain move without notice, so confirm anything you are booking around.
Photographs on this site are representative illustrations, not documentary images of the specific building, property or service described.
