For various reasons there are some stations in Shanghai that look like interchanges but actually aren’t: if you want to change trains you must leave the station, take a long walk, then buy a new ticket.

In the latest version of the metro map these are marked with a black line between the two stations. The hall of shame consists of:

1. Shanghai Railway Station

Transferring between Line 1 and Line 3/4 involves a long walk down a shop-lined passage.

2. Yishan Road

You can’t interchange between line 3 and line 4 here, even though it looks like that on many official maps. You need to go at least one stop north, to Hongqiao Road.

3. New! Pudian Road

The two stations at Pudian Road will eventually be joined by a tunnel and commercial center. For now, they are separate.

4. New! Hongkou Stadium

The latest news is that the Line 3/8 interchange will also not be ready this year

An update to the metro map is now online! At the end of the year, three new lines, as well as extensions to existing lines will open:

• Line 6 will run through Pudong, connecting with Line 2 and Line 4
• Line 8 will run north-south through the city with an interchange at People’s Square
• Line 9 will run westwards out to Songjiang. Amusingly, it won’t connect with the other lines yet.
• Line 4 will finally become a circular route with the opening of three new stations
• Line 1 gets a big longer at the northern end, terminating at Fujin Lu

You can view all the new lines here, note that this is a beta version, notably

• There is no first train/last train data for the new lines yet
• The route planner doesn’t have information for the new lines yet
• There are no pronunciations of the new stations yet (coming next week)
• Some of the English station names may be subject to change (e.g. Dashijie vs Great World)

If you spot any errors in the new map please contact me or post a response below.

I’m sorry to report that the ExploreShanghai city map will be taken offline at the end of the year.

Unfortunately due to work commitments I haven’t had time to really finish it or implement new features, and that looks unlikely to change for the foreseeable future. Shanghai still desperately needs a good English-language online street map, and if you want to develop one I wish you good luck!

The good news is I will continue to update the metro map with new lines, stations and features: see the next post for more details!

keep exploring

matt

a few small improvements on the metro map
http://www.exploreshanghai.com/metro/

• some small corrections for station names (the official Shanghai Metro site gets it wrong!)
• more UI translations into Chinese
• dragging between two stations now highlights the route
• night mode is a bit more realistic 🙂

I hope to get audio files for all 90-odd stations up shortly!

keep exploring,
matt

You can now drag between any two stations on the metro map to see the quickest route and price. For example, you can see that Hong Kou Stadium to Xujiahui takes about 42 minutes and costs 5 rmb. I’ll add an update soon to auto-scroll the map as you’re dragging, so that you can connect distant stations. Please let me know of any bugs you find!

http://www.exploreshanghai.com/metro/
Two bonuses: the file size has been reduced to under 100kb now, and there’s a basic zoom function (press the + and – keys on your keyboard).
keep exploring,
matt