Shanghai's 10 lesser-known tourist attractions around the city

Come to Shanghai, visiting the Shanghai World Financial Center, the Bund, Oriental Pearl Tower, and other traditional attractions are not enough? The term "Magic City" was first coined by the Japanese writer Kozue Matsumoto, who lived in Shanghai, in his best-selling novel "Magic City" about a century ago. Shanghai has too many fun places to visit. How to find lesser-known attractions worth exploring or savoring in Shanghai? The following is a collection of 10 lesser-known attractions in Shanghai that may not be well-known but will surely not disappoint you!

The 1933 Old Millfun has inherited its original structural system and spatial relationships. Based on its historical style, it has transformed into a unique creative park. It is also the filming location for the popular movie "Tiny Times". The Old Millfun has a prime location, adjacent to Sichuan Road Commercial Street. The building combines Eastern and Western characteristics, with a peculiar layout of four buildings forming a square factory area, and a main building with 24 sides in the center connected by stairs. The combination of the external-square and internal-circle architecture, intertwined corridors, spiral stairs, and umbrella-shaped columns creates a maze-like effect that is full of surprises.

Maoyuzhen Hotel, a selection of the finest accommodations in Sheshan

Sheshan Maoyuzhenpin Hotel is located in the Sheshan National Tourist Resort, adjacent to Happy Valley, Chenshan Botanical Garden, Moon Lake Sculpture Park, Shanghai Shimao Elf City Theme Park, and Guangfulin Ruins Park and other famous attractions. By the side of Moon Lake, close to Happy Valley and Sheshan Forest Park; it injects a little freshness into your busy life, and showcases the beautiful scenery of mountains and lakes. The Yu Zhen Xuan Chinese Restaurant offers authentic Cantonese cuisine, Hangzhou cuisine, and local Shanghai cuisine, while the Lakefront Restaurant gathers sophisticated Western cuisine and delicious buffet.
Shanghai Museum of Arts and Crafts is located on tranquil Fenyang Road, covering an area of 5862 square meters. It includes three main exhibition halls for weaving and embroidery, carving, and folk crafts. There are more than ten specialties, including embroidery, theatrical costumes, velvet embroidery, bamboo carving, and boxwood carving, which basically cover the traditional crafts in Shanghai that need to be protected.

Shanghai Poly Grand Theatre

Poly Theatre is a familiar work of Tadao Ando in Shanghai. The theater is located in Jiading New Town, Jiading District, Shanghai, adjacent to the Shanghai International Circuit. It is one of the iconic cultural facilities in the Shanghai area and the first theater in China with a water scenery theater. The theater can meet the performance requirements of dance, opera, drama, symphony concerts, Peking opera, and variety shows. During the day, it is like a jade stone filled with many secrets, quietly placed by the Xianghu Lake. At night, it becomes a delicate crystal box, floating on the vast water surface, quietly conversing with its own reflection.
Fengpu Four Seasons Ecological Park, covering an area of 180,000 square meters, officially opened to the public on February 1st in Fengxian District, Shanghai. It is the largest park in Fengxian that is open to the public for free. The park has a green coverage rate of over 70%. It is designed as a park with exotic scenery, divided into 11 themed gardens, including an Islamic garden, sculpture garden, French garden, modern garden, rare species garden, and water garden, of which six are open to the public.

Kr Space (Huashan Road Community Store)

The famous internet celebrity shared space in Shanghai, because of the large spiral staircase has become a popular photo shooting spot. The recommended playtime is usually 0.5-1 hour. Of course, different seasons, different weather, and different lengths of time may vary slightly. Properly arranging time will make the play enjoyable.

Deqi Garden Hotel Mandauo Coffee Shop (Deqi Li Xiang Valley Cultural and Creative Park)

A hidden internet-famous cafe, 1883 Mando Coffee, located at 788 Shenfu Road, coordinates with Coffe House in the Valley of Creative Culture Park, with flowers, green plants, and a grassy lawn surrounding a two-story European-style building, quaint and stylish. A little paradise that makes you doubt if you are in Shanghai. There is also a clay sculpture hall, a gathering place for various artistic and cultural atmospheres, where every corner is a scenic spot.

Green Hill

A building located on the southern section of Yangpu Riverside has suddenly become a hotspot for photography on the internet. The layered greenery makes it resemble the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The steel structure spirals up like DNA, with a cantilevered corridor hanging nearly 20 meters above the ground, providing a 270-degree river view. It extends freely, continuously, and without clear boundaries, resembling a terrain of hills. This open-air building, named "Green Hill," presents the refreshing vitality of urban space renewal, like a "dismantled house."
The overall layout of the Shanghai Railway Museum has a strong historical atmosphere, reminiscent of the railway past: the outdoor square exhibition area creates a scene of an early railway station, with heavy steam locomotives and wooden platform canopies that have weathered the years. The main building of the museum, a 4-story structure, is built to 80% of the original 1909 Shanghai Station on the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, reproducing the English classical style of the station at that time.

Zhengda Ximeng Himalaya Center

The overall architectural design of Shanghai Zhongda Ximeng Center is personally supervised by the internationally renowned Japanese architect Mr. Shinji Arashisaki. The center is composed of a crystal-clear cuboid and a natural and simple "unshaped forest". Ximeng Center is not just a building, but also a sculpture and an artwork. Especially the "unshaped forest" structure carries the artistic nature of Ximeng Center, spreading the rendering power of art to the entire building from both its appearance and its connotation, making the charm of the entire building grow continuously with the unshaped forms. The "unshaped forest" is like a "forest" naturally grown from the ground, supporting the whole Ximeng Center.