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On our Shanghai metro map, visitors have long been able to listen to the sexy voice of Wang Jing reading out the station names:
[audio:http://www.exploreshanghai.com/metro/sound/35.mp3]So that our female listeners do not feel left out, we thought we’d better have a guy for the Beijing map. Several days later, all 106 stations now have recordings by our very own Shaun Tang!
[audio:http://www.explorebj.com/subway/sound/10017.mp3]On the ExploreBeijing subway map you can now hear a spoken Mandarin pronounciation of each station name. Simply click on any station, then click the “play” button which appears in the upper right hand corner of the bubble:
The big red arrow doesn’t actually appear on the real map.
Also on all the station pages in Subwaypedia (like this one) you can hear the station name by clicking on the ‘play’ button on the right hand side of the page.
Try it out here:
[audio:http://www.explorebj.com/subway/sound/2015-5012.mp3]Now if we can just find someone with a Guangzhou accent-ah…
Several people have noticed the fun loading messages which appear while our metro maps for Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou are loading.
To celebrate the festive season, we’ve written some new loading messages with the theme “Christmas with Chinese characteristics”. Check it out on one of our maps: SH BJ GZ.
UPDATE: Line 11 opened on 31 December 2009
The official names for the Shanghai Metro Line 11 stations have been announced. The first phase links Shanghai’s northwestern suburbs with downtown (terminating at Jiangsu Road). It is set to open at the end of 2009. It will have two interchange stations with existing lines.
Line 11 will link Shanghai West Railway Station and the Shanghai International Circuit (home of the Chinese F1 Grand Prix) to the metro network for the first time.
Here is the list of stations, from south to north, with links to Metropedia articles for existing stations. The English names are our unofficial translations, based on the naming of current stations. Corrections and comments are welcome.
The line then branches into two. The northern branch has these stations:
The western branch has these stations:
The official names for the Shanghai Metro Line 7 stations have been announced. Line 7 has been under construction for the past three years, and is set to open at the end of 2009. It will run from Baoshan District in the north of Shanghai, through downtown and into Pudong. It will have eight interchange stations with existing lines.
Here is the list of stations, from north to south, with links to Metropedia articles for existing stations. The English names are our unofficial translations, based on the naming of current stations. Corrections and comments are welcome.
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ExploreMetro should be a nice reference for China’s many expats and foreign visitors who opt not to waste time or money hopping into taxis to get wherever they want to go when the subway is equally accessible and often times much faster.
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Every station on the Shanghai Metro, Beijing Subway and Guangzhou Metro have their own page on ExploreShanghai‘s Metropedia, ExploreBeijing‘s Subwaypedia and ExploreGuangzhou‘s Metropedia.
Now these pages are more colourful and interesting with the addition of local photos! Powered by Panoramia.com, you can now see photos taken in the geographical area around each metro station.
Examples:
We’re proud to announce the launch of exploregz.com, an interactive metro map of Guangzhou. Based on the same technology as exploreshanghai.com and explorebj.com, all your favourite features are there, including English and Chinese versions, route-planning with times and prices for tickets and a Metropedia with information on every station.
Have fun exploring a new city! Explore Guangzhou is still in “beta”, so if you have any feedback, please feel free to comment on this blog, or via our contact us page.
You may have noticed that this blog has moved to exploremetro.com – this is a new site which will act as a central hub for information about all of our metro and subway maps. All old links and RSS subscriptions should continue to work fine.
Both ExploreShanghai and ExploreBeijing got an upgrade today. On ExploreBeijing you can now explore Subwaypedia, an encyclopedia containing information, timings and maps for every line and station on the Beijing Subway.
Beijing’s Subway Line 8 is now open to the public, providing easy access to the Olympic Green and Forest Park.
Shanghai’s matching Metropedia also got an upgrade, with more accurate information and faster-loading pages.
Don’t forget, to jump to the Metro/Subwaypedia for any station, just click on the station on the interactive map.
ExploreShanghai proudly presents Metropedia, an encylopedia about the Shanghai metro. There’s far more information than we can possibly display on the interactive metro map, so now each line and station has its own page.
You can jump to the Metropedia by clicking on any station, and choosing the “Metropedia” link in the bubble.
Alternatively, click the “Metropedia” tab at the top of each page to jump there directly.
Here’s the page for Xujiahui:
On each station page you can find
Metropedia is multilingual, and the Chinese version of the site is at 地铁信息. You’ll notice that you can toggle between the English and Chinese version of any page on the site by clicking English or 中文 in the top right of the page.
Over time, we’ll be adding more information to make the pages more useful. If you have any suggestions, please leave a comment below!