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Nanxiang Old Town 南翔古镇Nánxiáng Gǔzhèn
4A scenic area · Shanghai, Shanghai
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shanghai
- Region
- Shanghai
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Nanxiang Old Town
An old market town known as the home of xiaolongbao soup dumplings, whose restored old streets centre on the Twin Pagodas, a pair of small Five Dynasties–Northern Song brick pagodas imitating timber buildings that face each other across a street. In front of them are two ancient wells excavated during the street renovation that began in 2008, and nearby is Liuyun Chan Temple, still widely called Yunxiang Temple, rebuilt in 1998–2004 on the site of the old Nanxiang Temple.
How to get to Nanxiang Old Town
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: Guyi Garden 古猗园 (under 10 km), Gucun Park 顾村公园 (under 10 km), Shanghai International Circuit 上海国际赛车场 (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), Changfeng Park and Changfeng Ocean World 长风公园 (10 km).
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