Shanghai

Stations worth a stop

• Century Avenue 世纪大道

  Line 2Line 4Line 6Line 9

  Century Avenue is a four-line interchange of Lines 2, 4, 6 and 9 in Pudong and one of the busiest transfer points in the network. It takes its name from the broad avenue that runs from Lujiazui south-east to Century Park, and the towers of the financial district are about a fifteen-minute walk to the north-west.

• China Art Museum 中华艺术宫

  Line 8

  China Art Museum station on Line 8 serves the former Expo 2010 site in Pudong. The museum occupies the former China Pavilion, the red building with stacked, inverted-pyramid roof brackets that was the centrepiece of the expo, and it shows modern and contemporary Chinese art.

• Dapuqiao 打浦桥

  Line 9

  Dapuqiao on Line 9 is the nearest station to Tianzifang, a maze of narrow lanes of shikumen houses off Taikang Road that now hold small shops, studios and cafes. The lanes begin a few minutes' walk from the exits, and the Xintiandi area is about fifteen minutes away on foot.

• Dishui Lake 滴水湖

  Line 16

  Dishui Lake is the south-eastern terminus of Line 16 in the Lingang new city near the coast. The station is named after the large circular artificial lake at the centre of the new town, which has a path around its shore, and the China Maritime Museum stands near the lake.

• Disney Resort 迪士尼

  Line 11

  Disney Resort is the eastern terminus of Line 11 and the station for Shanghai Disney Resort, which opened in June 2016 in the Pudong countryside. The theme park gates, the Disneytown shopping and dining street and the park's hotels are all within walking distance of the station.

• East Nanjing Road 南京东路

  Line 2Line 10

  East Nanjing Road station serves Lines 2 and 10 at the eastern half of the city's best-known shopping street, which is closed to traffic along most of its length and lined with long-established department stores. Walking east to the end of the street takes about ten minutes and brings you to the Bund, the riverside row of early twentieth-century banks and trading houses facing Lujiazui across the Huangpu River.

• Hongkou Football Stadium 虹口足球场

  Line 3Line 8

  Hongkou Football Stadium is an interchange of Lines 3 and 8 next to the stadium of the same name in Hongkou district. Lu Xun Park, with the tomb and memorial hall of the writer Lu Xun, lies directly beside the stadium, and Duolun Road, a short street of early twentieth-century houses linked with writers of that period, is to the south.

• Hongqiao Airport Terminal 2 虹桥2号航站楼

  Line 2Line 10

  Hongqiao Airport Terminal 2 station on Lines 2 and 10 sits beneath the larger of Hongqiao Airport's two terminals. The airport handles mainly domestic flights together with a small number of regional routes, and it is much closer to the city centre than Pudong. Line 10 continues one stop to Terminal 1.

• Hongqiao Railway Station 虹桥火车站

  Line 2Line 10Line 17

  Hongqiao Railway Station is the meeting point of Lines 2, 10 and 17 inside the Hongqiao transport hub on the western side of the city. The railway station is one of the largest in Asia and the Shanghai terminus of the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway. An indoor walkway connects it with Terminal 2 of Hongqiao Airport.

• International Cruise Terminal 国际客运中心

  Line 12

  International Cruise Terminal station on Line 12 serves the North Bund riverside, where the Shanghai Port International Cruise Terminal sits on the Huangpu River. A riverside promenade leads south-west past the mouth of Suzhou Creek and Waibaidu Bridge to the Bund.

• Jing'an Temple 静安寺

  Line 2Line 7Line 14

  Jing'an Temple station links Lines 2, 7 and 14 below West Nanjing Road. The Buddhist temple that gives the station its name, with its gilded roofs, stands right beside the exits, and Jing'an Park lies across the road. The surrounding stretch of West Nanjing Road is lined with office towers and shopping malls.

• Longyang Road 龙阳路

  Line 2Line 7Line 16Line 18

  Longyang Road in Pudong is where Lines 2, 7, 16 and 18 meet the Maglev, which runs about 30 kilometres from here to Pudong Airport. Line 16 also starts here for its run south-east across Pudong to Dishui Lake near the coast, much of it on elevated track.

• Lujiazui 陆家嘴

  Line 2Line 14

  Lujiazui sits on the bend of the Huangpu River in Pudong, where Lines 2 and 14 serve the financial district. The Oriental Pearl TV Tower, the Jin Mao Tower, the Shanghai World Financial Center and the Shanghai Tower, the tallest building in China, all stand within a few minutes' walk. The riverside promenade looks back across the water to the buildings of the Bund.

• National Exhibition and Convention Center 国家会展中心

  Line 2Line 17

  National Exhibition and Convention Center station is shared by Lines 2 and 17 beside the large exhibition complex in Qingpu whose four wings form a four-leaf clover. The two lines' stations, formerly East Xujing and Zhuguang Road, were given this common name in September 2024. The complex hosts the China International Import Expo each autumn.

• Natural History Museum 自然博物馆

  Line 13

  Natural History Museum station on Line 13 opens next to the Shanghai Natural History Museum, whose spiral-shaped building opened in 2015 inside Jing'an Sculpture Park. The park itself, with outdoor sculptures set among lawns, is a calm open space in the middle of Jing'an district.

• People's Square 人民广场

  Line 1Line 2Line 8

  People's Square is the interchange of Lines 1, 2 and 8 beneath the large public square at the centre of the city, and its underground passages are among the busiest in the network. The Shanghai Museum, the Shanghai Grand Theatre and the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center stand around the square, with People's Park on its north side. The pedestrian section of East Nanjing Road begins a short walk to the east.

• Pudong Airport Terminal 1&2 浦东1号2号航站楼

  Line 2

  Pudong Airport Terminal 1&2 is the eastern terminus of Line 2 and lies between the two terminal buildings of Shanghai's main international airport. Line 2 trains take a long time to reach the city centre, so many travellers use the Maglev from the neighbouring station to Longyang Road and change to the metro there.

• Qibao 七宝

  Line 9

  Qibao on Line 9 is the station for Qibao Old Town in Minhang district, a small canal town absorbed by the growing city. Its stone bridge, waterside lanes and streets of snack stalls and small shops are a few minutes' walk from the exits.

• Shanghai Library 上海图书馆

  Line 10

  Shanghai Library station on Line 10 sits at the western end of Huaihai Middle Road beside the main building of the Shanghai Library, one of the largest libraries in China. The surrounding streets of the former French Concession, including Wukang Road and Hengshan Road, are known for their tree-lined avenues and historic houses.

• Shanghai Railway Station 上海火车站

  Line 1Line 3Line 4

  Shanghai Railway Station, north of the city centre, is served by Lines 1, 3 and 4, with Lines 3 and 4 sharing their platforms. The station is the older of the city's main railway terminals and handles both conventional and high-speed trains, many of them running west toward Suzhou and Nanjing.

• Shanghai Science and Technology Museum 上海科技馆

  Line 2

  This Line 2 station is named after the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, a large science museum whose building stands beside the exits on Century Avenue. Century Park is one stop further east, and the Pudong district government offices are close by.

• Shanghai South Railway Station 上海南站

  Line 1Line 3Line 15

  Shanghai South Railway Station is an interchange of Lines 1, 3 and 15 beside the railway station of the same name, whose circular main building has a large round roof. Trains from here run mainly south-west toward Zhejiang and beyond, and the long-distance bus station is next door.

• Shanghai Zoo 上海动物园

  Line 10

  Shanghai Zoo station on Line 10 sits beside the zoo's main entrance on Hongqiao Road, between the city and Hongqiao Airport. The zoo grounds are large and green, with lawns and lakes as well as animal enclosures, and they make a quieter stop on the way to or from the airport.

• Sheshan 佘山

  Line 9

  Sheshan on Line 9 serves the Sheshan area of Songjiang, a group of low hills that stand out in otherwise flat Shanghai. The hills to the north of the station are home to the Sheshan Basilica on the summit and the historic Sheshan Observatory, with forest park trails between them.

• South Shaanxi Road 陕西南路

  Line 1Line 10Line 12

  South Shaanxi Road is a three-line interchange of Lines 1, 10 and 12 on Huaihai Middle Road, one of the city's main shopping streets. It lies in the former French Concession, where the side streets are shaded by plane trees and lined with older villas, lane houses and apartment buildings that make the area pleasant to explore on foot.

• Tilanqiao 提篮桥

  Line 12

  Tilanqiao on Line 12 is in the part of Hongkou where thousands of Jewish refugees from Europe lived in the late 1930s and 1940s. The Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, set in the former Ohel Moshe Synagogue, is a short walk from the station, and some of the surrounding lanes keep their old brick houses.

• World Expo Museum 世博会博物馆

  Line 13

  World Expo Museum station on Line 13 is on the Puxi side of the former Expo 2010 grounds near the Huangpu River. The museum it is named after covers the history of world's fairs since the nineteenth century, and the riverside parks along the old expo site make a quiet walk.

• Wujiaochang 五角场

  Line 10

  Wujiaochang on Line 10 is at a five-way junction in Yangpu district that has grown into a large shopping area, marked by an egg-shaped structure above the elevated road. Fudan University's main campus and Tongji University are both a short ride or walk away, so the area is busy with students.

• Site of the First CPC National Congress · Xintiandi 一大会址·新天地

  Line 10Line 13

  This Line 10 and Line 13 station takes its double name from Xintiandi, a district of restored shikumen stone-gate houses now used as restaurants and shops, and from the site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China, held here in a shikumen house in July 1921. The memorial hall at that house is a short walk from the exits.

• Xujiahui 徐家汇

  Line 1Line 9Line 11

  Xujiahui is a large interchange of Lines 1, 9 and 11 at the centre of a busy shopping district in Xuhui. The area is named after the family of Xu Guangqi, the Ming-dynasty scholar who worked with the Jesuit Matteo Ricci, and the twin brick spires of St Ignatius Cathedral rise a short walk south of the main crossroads.

• Yuyuan Garden 豫园

  Line 10Line 14

  Yuyuan Garden station, shared by Lines 10 and 14, is at the edge of the old walled city. Yu Garden, a classical garden of rockeries, ponds and pavilions first laid out in the Ming dynasty, lies a few minutes away next to the City God Temple and a network of shopping streets built in traditional style. The Bund is about a fifteen-minute walk to the north-east.

• Zhongshan Park 中山公园

  Line 2Line 3Line 4

  Zhongshan Park is an interchange of Lines 2, 3 and 4 in Changning district, beside the park named after Sun Yat-sen. Next to the park along Suzhou Creek is the Changning campus of East China University of Political Science and Law, which keeps the historic buildings of the former St John's University.

• Zhujiajiao 朱家角

  Line 17

  Zhujiajiao on Line 17 is the station for the canal town of the same name in Qingpu district, in the far west of Shanghai. The old town has narrow lanes along its waterways, small boats and stone bridges, the best known being the five-arched Fangsheng Bridge from the Ming dynasty.