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Shanghai Botanical Garden 上海植物园Shànghǎi Zhíwùyuán
4A scenic area · Shanghai, Shanghai
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shanghai
- Region
- Shanghai
- Type
- Nature
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Shanghai Botanical Garden
A large botanical garden in southern Xuhui, opened to the public in 1978 on the site of the former Longhua nursery, with themed sections for penjing (Chinese bonsai), peonies, magnolias, roses, osmanthus, conifers, maples and bamboo, plus an orchid house and a tropical glasshouse. The penjing garden is particularly well known, and the garden holds flower shows every spring and autumn.
How to get to Shanghai Botanical Garden
In southern Xuhui District, about 10 km south of People's Square; the main gate is at 1111 Longwu Road, and Gate 4 on Luocheng Road is about 1 km on foot from Shilong Road station (Line 3).
Nearby
- Former French Concession 原法租界 under 10 km
Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk - Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 under 10 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 10 km
A Ming-dynasty garden of rockeries and dragon walls beside a Taoist city temple - The Bund & Lujiazui Skyline 外滩与陆家嘴 10 km
1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other - Lujiazui 陆家嘴 10 km
Shanghai's skyline in a loop of river: spheres, a twisting tower and the Bund opposite
Also within 20 km: Longhua Pagoda 龙华塔 (under 10 km), Longhua Martyrs' Cemetery 龙华烈士陵园 (under 10 km), Tomb of Xu Guangqi 徐光启墓 (under 10 km), St. Ignatius Cathedral 徐家汇天主堂 (under 10 km), Xujiahui Origin heritage area 徐家汇源 (under 10 km), Early Buildings of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Xuhui Campus) 上海交通大学早期建筑 (under 10 km).
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