Fangta Park (Square Pagoda) 方塔园Fāngtǎ Yuán

About Fangta Park (Square Pagoda)

A park laid out from 1978 by the architect Feng Jizhong around the Square Pagoda, a nine-storey brick-and-timber pagoda built under the Northern Song in the late 11th century and the only survivor of the Xingshengjiao Temple. Around it stand a carved brick screen wall of 1370 from the old prefectural City God Temple, the Tianfei Palace moved here from Henan Road in the late 1970s, a Ming hall, and Feng's bamboo-and-thatch pavilion He Lou Xuan, whose restoration won a UNESCO Asia-Pacific heritage award in 2024.

How to get to Fangta Park (Square Pagoda)

In Songjiang old town, about 75 minutes from People's Square on Metro Line 9 to Zuibaichi Park station, then a short taxi ride of about 2 km.

Nearby

• Former French Concession 原法租界 30 km
  Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk
• Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 30 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 30 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 40 km
  1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other
• Lujiazui 陆家嘴 40 km
  Shanghai's skyline in a loop of river: spheres, a twisting tower and the Bund opposite

Also within 20 km: Songjiang Tang Sutra Pillar 松江唐经幢 (under 10 km), Zuibaichi Garden 醉白池 (under 10 km), Shanghai Film Park 上海影视乐园 (under 10 km), Guangfulin Culture Park 广富林文化遗址 (under 10 km), Yunbao Future City Art Town 云堡未来市 (under 10 km), Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden 上海辰山植物园 (under 10 km).

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