Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple

Located in the Anyuan road in Shanghai city, the Jade Buddha Temple is Buddhist temple not only famous in Shanghai, but also well known at home and abroad. As one of the ten scenic spots of Shanghai tourism and though it located in the heart of the city, it is described as a piece of pure land in the downtown.

Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple

Jade Buddha Temple in Shanghai nowadays is divided into two main parts: the front yard and back yard. The front yard, that is the temple site of the Jade Buddha Temple. Its axis is followed by large screen wall, the Tianwang Hall, Mahavira Hall, Prajnaparamita Zhangs Room (floor upstairs for jade Buddha and scripture-stored tower). East of the Dongshan gate is followed by Shanghai Buddhist Association, Guanyin Hall, Shanghai Institute of Buddhist Studies, Meditation Room, Wuguan Hall and Plain Zhai Department; west of the Xishan Gate are Monastic Reception, Temple Business Office, and storeroom, Copper Buddha Hall, Mahaparinirvana Temple Guest Room and Lezhi Hall. Its back yard, that is the original Liqun hospital site purchased in 2000, has built multi-functional group of buildings, composing of functional lecture hall, guest room, office area, teaching area and dormitory area. Walking inside the Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple, you will find that there is a cultural relics room, which is in possession of those precious cultural relics of the northern Wei, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple is famous for consecrating jade Buddha. The jade Buddha statue in the jade Buddha floor is the temple treasure. The Buddha statue is characterized by exquisite sculpture, exquisite jade texture, glistening thoroughly tick, round and smooth, fluent and beautiful lines, harmony and symmetry proportion of every parts. The whole figure of Buddha looks peaceful, quiet, floats and feminine look, which makes the person look after mind suddenly, having the feeling of super take off all of dust.

Shanghai Museum

Located in the south side of the people’s square in Shanghai city center, the Shanghai Museum is one of the four China great museums together with the Beijing Museum, Xi’an Museum and Nanjing Museum. Featuring the display area of 2800 square meters, the Shanghai Museum has set 12 special showrooms, ethnic crafts pavilion hall, ancient Chinese bronze pavilion hall, China’s Ming and Qing furniture hall etc. There are 120,000 pieces of precious relics including bronze ware, ceramics, calligraphy, painting, jade teeth, bamboo and wood lacquer, oracle, ethnic crafts, among which the bronze ware, ceramics, calligraphy and paintings are its characteristics.

Opened in the 12th October 1996, the Shanghai Museum covers a total building area of 39,200 square meters with the height of 29.5 meters. Its dome square base which symbolizes orbicular sky and rectangular earth constitutes the new outstanding visual effect there. The whole architecture skillfully fuses the traditional culture with the spirit of the age together to make it stand outstandingly among all the museums in the world. It is a famous scenic spot in Shanghai worthy your visit during your tour there.

Shanghai Museum

The new Shanghai Museum has eleven specific pavilions and three exhibition halls. It is greeting all the guests with its new look now. There are Chinese bronze showroom, Chinese ceramics showroom, Chinese painting gallery showroom and Ancient Chinese sculpture gallery showroom. The Shanghai museum collection bronze exhibition, six-thousand China art exhibition, Shanghai treasure porcelain museum exhibition, Ming-and-Qing- Dynasty calligraphy exhibition, Yangzhou eight eccentrics exhibition etc have exhibited in Hong Kong , Japan and America.

Travel tips: 1) Opening time: 9:00 a.m. -17:00 p.m. 2) Ticket price: Free; 3) Ideal time to visit: all the year round especially the autumn time and the New Year’s time; 4) Playing time suggestion: 4 hours; 5) Ways to go there: Take the city public buses No. 454,112,123,71,934,145,46,167 and 18; or take the No. 6 tunnel; subway line 1, 2, and 8 to the People’s Square Station.

JinMaoTower

Located in the Pudong new area in Shanghai lujiazui finance &trade zone in prime locations with the famous bund scenic spot on the other side of the Bund, the Jinmao Tower is a famous AAAA level attraction in China and also a landmark building in Shanghai with its total 88 floors.

The 88-stories Jin Mao Tower, whose height is 340.1 meters and area is 1,520 square meters, is the highest and biggest tourist hall in China mainland and it has been recorded into the Shanghai great world Guinness record. The sightseeing hall is decorated luxury, which completely adopted import natural marbles whose wall thickness of the stone is only 3 mm. You can have a broad and distant view from the glasses wall screen to enjoy a birds’ eyes view of the urban scenery on both sides of the Huangpu River and the grandeur of the Yangtze estuary. From there, you can also overlook the atrium of the Jinmao Hyatt Hotel which is called the spatio-temporal tunnel by the architects. Besides, you can enjoy the wonderful sunrise and sunset, and take a friendly handshake with the white rapidly changing cloud in blue sky. Those two express lifts whose moving speed at 9.1 meters/second called “The Clumsy” take you to the 88-stories sightseeing hall with only 45 seconds from the underground 1st floor, which will shock you really!

JinMaoTower

Being the combination of modern office building, luxury five-star hotel, business conference, high-end banquet, sightseeing, entertainment and market, the 88-stories Jin Mao Tower is an intelligent skyscraper that integrates profound and rich cultural connotation of the Chinese nations and also adopts western architectural art. It has become the most convenient, flexible and comfortable place in Shanghai today for security office, finance, commerce, entertainment and catering.

Travel information: 1) Ticket price: 120 Yuan/adult; 2) Opening time: 8:30 a.m. -22:00 p.m. 3) Best time to visit: all the year round; 4) Duration: 2 hours; 5) How to go there: Take the city public lines: No. 81, 82, 85, 795, 996, 971, 774, 961, 583, 798, 799, 870, 971 and 992 to the Lujiazui stop.

Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower

With the total height of 467.9 meters, the Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower is located in the Lujiazui in Pudong area of Shanghai city, adjacent to the Huangpu river and on the other side of the Bund. Being the Shanghai international press center, the Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower is the No.4 high tower in Asia and No.6 in the world,which is just behind the Burj Khalifa in United Arab Emirates ( 828 meters), the Tokyo Sky Tree TV Tower in Japan (634 meters), Guangzhou New TV Tower( 600 meters), the CN Tower in Canada ( 553.3 meters) and Ostankino Tower in Canada ( 540.1 meters). It is a famous attraction in Shanghai worthy your visit.

Being the landmark building of the Shanghai Bund, the Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower is also one tour degrees higher sights in Lujiazui financial center. You can have a birds’ eyes view of the Bund, whose distance is the Shanghai Pudong and its foot is the flowing Huangpu river. It stands till there, no matter how many people go back and forth, witnessing the rise and fall of various history since the reform and opening up development in Shanghai.

Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower

The world-famous Oriental pearl air revolving restaurant is located in the Oriental pearl tower, 267 meters on the sphere. It enjoys high reputation proudly at the top of the Shanghai with its unique landscape advantage, outstanding diet culture and feel at home in the warm service. As Asia’s highest revolving restaurant, it covers an area of 1,500 square meters to accommodate 350 guests for dinner. This restaurant at the same time provides more luxurious package and the combination of Chinese and western buffet, hundreds kinds of delicacies, uninterrupted supply for visitors to share delicious food and appreciate beauty.

Travel information: 1) Opening time: 8:00 a.m.-18:00 p.m. 2) Ticket price: 160 RMB/adult; 3) Best time to visit: all the year round and especially those sunny day when you can overlooking the beautiful sights there; 4) Ways to get there: Take the travel line no. 3, city buses no.81, 82, 85, 870, 872. 5) Visiting suggestion: 2 hours.