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Guyi Garden 古猗园Gǔyī Yuán
4A scenic area · Shanghai, Shanghai
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shanghai
- Region
- Shanghai
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Guyi Garden
One of Shanghai's five classical gardens, begun in the Ming dynasty's Jiajing era and renamed Guyi Yuan after a new owner bought and enlarged it in 1746, with bamboo planted throughout. Its sights include the Yiye Hall, a lotus pond with a Song-dynasty pagoda, a Tang sutra pillar brought here in the 1950s, and a pavilion built in 1933 with one corner left missing to mark the loss of north-east China in 1931. The garden is also linked with the origins of Nanxiang xiaolongbao soup dumplings.
How to get to Guyi Garden
In Nanxiang, Jiading District, a short walk or taxi ride from Nanxiang station on Metro Line 11, about 40 minutes from central Shanghai.
Nearby
- Former French Concession 原法租界 20 km
Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk - Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 20 km
Ancient Chinese bronzes, ceramics, painting and jade, now shown at Shanghai Museum East - Yu Garden & City God Temple 豫园与城隍庙 20 km
A Ming-dynasty garden of rockeries and dragon walls beside a Taoist city temple - Lujiazui 陆家嘴 20 km
Shanghai's skyline in a loop of river: spheres, a twisting tower and the Bund opposite - The Bund & Lujiazui Skyline 外滩与陆家嘴 20 km
1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other
Also within 20 km: Nanxiang Old Town 南翔古镇 (under 10 km), Gucun Park 顾村公园 (under 10 km), Shanghai Baoshan International Folk Art Museum 上海宝山国际民间艺术博览馆 (under 10 km), Zhenru Temple 真如寺 (under 10 km), Shanghai International Circuit 上海国际赛车场 (10 km), Changfeng Park and Changfeng Ocean World 长风公园 (10 km).
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