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Shanghai Tower

As China’s tallest and the world’s second tallest building, Shanghai Tower is a must-see for every tourist in Shanghai. Standing at a height of 632 meters, it has 127 floors above ground and 5 floors below.

Suggest 1.5 hours for observatory

What you could experience: Sightse...

As China’s tallest and the world’s second tallest building, Shanghai Tower is a must-see for every tourist in Shanghai. Standing at a height of 632 meters, it has 127 floors above ground and 5 floors below.

Suggest 1.5 hours for observatory

What you could experience: Sightseeing, Coffee, Shopping, Rooftopping Photo Studio, Eye of Shanghai

Route:

B1F Exhibition Hall ----Downstairs to B2 Floor to take the Ultra High-Speed Elevator  to 118F Observatory(----sometimes accessible to 119F Observatory)----125F (Eye of Shanghai) (optional and not free of charge)

The elevators are the fastest in the world, travelling at 18 meters per second. You can reach the observatory at 118F of 546 meters within 55 seconds, stable and smooth, the elevator will arrive 118F before you realize it.

Ticket price

Top of Shanghai Observatory B1F+118F RMB 180  ; Top of Shanghai Observatory B1F+118F+125F RMB 220

Ticket office is on Rd. Huayuanshiqiao Lu.

Besides sightseeing in the Tower, there are some restaurants and retailing shops. And the other two skyscrapers, Jinmao Tower and World Financial Center are just next to the tower.

After finishing the tower, you could choose try some Chinese dim sum inside or outside (there are two shopping malls in this area), as this area is located in Lujiazui, in where hundreds of banks and insurance company can be found, in where the most expensive apartment can be found, so it’s not cheap for even a bottle of water here. However, considering the environment and service, it’s valuable.

Former residence of Cai Yuanpei

This is an elegant house hidden in an ordinary residential block in Jing'an District. Here you can find many cultural relics previously used by Mr. Cai Yuanpei. Cai is an honorable Chinese revolutionist and educationist in the early 20th century. He introduced many advance...

This is an elegant house hidden in an ordinary residential block in Jing'an District. Here you can find many cultural relics previously used by Mr. Cai Yuanpei. Cai is an honorable Chinese revolutionist and educationist in the early 20th century. He introduced many advanced thoughts from western world and made a great contribution to the development of China's modern higher education.

Fuxing Park

Fuxing Park, literally Renaissance Park, is located in the former French Concession, near Nanchang Road. The park, about 10 hectares in size, is designed in the French style, with a central lake, fountains, flowerbeds, pavilions, corridors, rockeries. Early morning, the park is filled with dancer...

Fuxing Park, literally Renaissance Park, is located in the former French Concession, near Nanchang Road. The park, about 10 hectares in size, is designed in the French style, with a central lake, fountains, flowerbeds, pavilions, corridors, rockeries. Early morning, the park is filled with dancers, group singers, card and chess players, sport lovers, and Taichi practitioners and artisits.

Fuxing Park is a perfect place for spending a slow time in (or out of) the sun, as there are many shady areas and benches. When night falls, it turns to be favorable for night life. A many dainty restaurants, featured shops and mind-blowing bars scattered in the nearby Yandang Road, Sinan Road and Huaihai Road render it the most attractive public park in the city.
 

10 - 15 min walk from either Xiantindi Station of Metro Line 10 or South Huanpi Road Station of Metro Line 1

Dome Mosaics of Pudong Development Bank (Former HSBC Headquarters of Shanghai Branch)

The Pudong Development Bank is a majestic-looking building with a history of more than 80 years. In 1920, when it was being constructed, the Bund was designed to be “the Wall Street of Asia” and the new building was to become t...

The Pudong Development Bank is a majestic-looking building with a history of more than 80 years. In 1920, when it was being constructed, the Bund was designed to be “the Wall Street of Asia” and the new building was to become the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank’s new headquarters to dominate the Bund. Sparing no expense in its construction, almost every piece of the building was crafted overseas and shipped to Shanghai at enormous cost.

The edifice was completed on June 23, 1923 and the opening was viewed as one of the most important events in the commercial world that year.

Among many other highlights, the mosaic murals on the interior dome is the one especially worth mentioning.

On the ceiling of the octagonal entrance hall of the bank building are eight mosaic murals that depict the twelve signs of the zodiac, as well personifications of the Sun and Moon. An enterprising architect had the mosaics covered over in stucco and paint to save them from destruction during the Cultural Revolution. In 1997, renovations uncovered them. The Pudong Development Bank then funded the restoration, but changed the HSBC emblems in the paintings to the Pudong Development Bank emblem.

The eight murals depict eight cities in which HSBC had branches: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, London, New York, Bangkok, Paris, and Calcutta. In between every two panels are found eight words which all together make a popular Chinese saying: “All men in the four seas are brothers.” Each fresco features a principal mythological figure, supported by personifications of local rivers and the city, with city scenery in the background.

15-min walk from West Nanjing Road Station of Metro Line 2