480 kilometers. Baidu map shows that Fengdu is 480 kilometers away from Yichang waterway, and it takes 7 hours by boat. Yichang, formerly known as Yiling, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of China and Hubei Province, a sub-central city of Hubei Province and a regional central city in the central region. It is located at the junction of southwest Hubei Province and the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River.