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ellyse Says: Zhujiajiao is a typical water village and boating is a good way to experience how people used to move around in the old days. This is also the nearest water village boating option to downtown Shanghai.There're a number of ferry docks in the water village. If you enter...
ellyse Says: The City God's Temple is located at the northwest end of the Chenghuang (City God's) Bridge. There's a white wall in front of it in order to prevent evil spirits from rushing into the temple, as traditions go.Inside the compound, facing the main hall is a traditional opera...
ellyse Says: This post office has been around since the Qing dynasty. At the main entrance, have a close look at the post box -- there's a dragon coiled around it! (Not a real, live one, of course!) The main entrance is in the shikumen style, a blend of East and West, now most easily...
ellyse Says: This is one of the sights included in the admission ticket (whichever one you buy), but we didn't go in. To me, all Buddhist temples in China are starting to look more or less the same, so unless the temple in question is particularly notable, I won't bother going in unless...
ellyse Says: First built in the early 20th century by a salt merchant from Jiangxi, this garden, the largest in Zhujiajiao, took 15 years to complete. As the salt merchant's surname was Ma, this garden was also called the "Ma Family Garden". The name "Kezhi" means "not to forget to till...
ellyse Says: If you arrive from the south entrance of Zhujiajiao (the one closer to where the public buses from Shanghai stop), this will probably be the 1st ticketed attraction that you come to.There're 2 separate sections (one to each side of the road that this gallery is on) but we...
Zhe Er (Drink Food Room): Here?
ellyse Says: I was attracted by the mural on the side wall of this cafe. You'll have to see it for yourself. :)The simple menu hanging in the window offers beer, tea, snacks, fresh juice, milk tea, noodles, popcorn, shaved ice... too bad I didn't have time to stop for longer!From the...
Baxianlou: Fairly Fantastic Food
ellyse Says: The name of the restaurant means "Eight Fairies Hall". Whether there're fairies here or not remains to be seen, but the Shanghainese food here is certainly very authentic and tasty! Locals say that this is one of the best restaurants in Zhujiajiao, and after eating here, I'd...
Heima Bar aka Viking Bar: A Black Horse
ellyse Says: The outside of the bar is eye-catching -- it was so trendy, I thought I wasn't in Zhujiajiao! The front has a big window looking into the bar. Unfortunately we were there in the daytime, or I would've gone in for a drink.When I passed by, there was a poster advertising an...
Bus from Shanghai's People's Square
ellyse Says: I prefer to go to Zhujiajiao by public bus instead of the tourist sightseing buses from Shanghai Stadium.For most travellers, starting from the People's Square area would be reasonable as it's centrally-located. On Pu'an Lu, behind Shanghai Concert Hall, are 2 bus routes...
ellyse Says: There're a number of small shops selling kitschy notebooks ("Communist-style" or featuring Zhujiajiao), nostalgic postcards (featuring Zhujiajiao and Shanghai), matchboxes and other little knick-knacks in Zhujiajiao. These are good souvenirs, especially if you need to...
Handalong: Preserved Vegetables
ellyse Says: Traditionally, vegetables and soybean products were preserved during season so that people could still enjoy them in winter when no crops are harvested. Today, these preserved foodstuffs are still popular with Chinese for breakfast, especially in conjunction with porridge. A...
ellyse Says: The admission ticket is the 1st thing you'll have to buy when you get to Zhujiajiao. There're 3 different prices, with different sights included.The basic 4 sights which are covered by any admission ticket are Kezhi Garden, the Qing dynasty Post Office, Yuanjin Buddhist...
ellyse Says: There're so many Granny's Dumplings in Zhujiajiao, you'll be spoilt for choice. This traditional snack has become a tourist commodity -- everyone is jumping on the bandwagon and saying that theirs is the oldest, tastiest, most traditional, most famous... whatever!Anywhere...
Attacked in Zhujiajiao water villiage 10/2006
attacked Says: My boyfriend and I were strolling the streets of the water villiage. We were with 23 other westerners as part of a tour group. Our tour group were the only non-natives in the villiage. We were told it was a safe area and to browse around. We were quickly separated from all...
nativeshores Says: After paying to get into the City God Taoist temple in ZhuJiaJiao, we were greeted (all too eagerly) by what I thought was a shrine worker. He was a little too quick to try to show us things and around the temple, before dragging me to his desk and beginning a palm-reading...
ellyse Says: The biggest bridge in Zhujiajiao is Fangsheng Bridge. On the bridge you could get a good bird's-eye view of the surrounding area. "Fangsheng" means "to set free", the traditional Buddhist custom of setting free small animals such as turtles, fish and such so as to accrue...
ellyse Says: I found lots of dried foodstuffs for sale in the streets of Zhujiajiao. I guess it's because it's winter and getting close to Chinese New Year.Offerings included fish, poultry and other stuff which I couldn't really tell what they were. They're dried with head et al, so if...
ellyse Says: Zhujiajiao is the nearest water village to downtown Shanghai. As the name implies, this is a water village, so who could miss out on the lovely canal scenery?
ellyse Says: On foot, you can explore the nooks and crannies of Zhujiajiao. Some of the streets (as marked on the helpful English-Chinese map you'll get at admission) are more touristy, but there're also locals living in the rest of the houses. Wander off the tourist trail and you can...
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Zhujiajiao is the nearest water village to downtown Shanghai. As the name implies, this is a water village, so who could miss out on the lovely canal scenery?
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Q: We will be traveling from shenzhen to shanghai for 5 days and I want to include Zhujiajiao Ancient Town in our itinerary. I've...
A: from shanghai to zhujiajiao(6:00-22:00)from zhujiaojiao to shanghai(5:10-21:00)every 15-30min one bus
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Seeing the narrow alleys, I felt I was walking in the old history. It reminded me of so many movies about the old time of China..
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Nearest Water Village to Shanghai
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The Venice of China - Zhujiajiao!
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Take subway line 9 and alight at SheShan Station. From there, take a taxi to Zhujiajiao
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