Category Archives: cities

Coming soon: iPhone apps for Beijing Subway, Guangzhou Metro and Hong Kong MTR

You wait ages for a iPhone metro map, then three come along at once 🙂 Building on the success of our ExploreShanghai Shanghai metro iPhone app (still available at the introductory price of just $0.99!) we’re working on not one but three new iPhone apps: ExploreBeijing, ExploreGuangzhou and ExploreHK.

Stay tuned for further announcements, but until then here’s a screenshot to whet your appetite (click to enlarge)!

New iPhone apps for Beijing, Guangzhou and Hong Kong coming soon

If you’d like to be notified when we launch our apps for Beijing, Guangzhou or Hong Kong, leave a message on our contact page.

Shanghai Metro Line 7 opens on exploreshanghai.com

Shanghai’s Metro Line 7 opens today! We’ve just pushed live an update to exploreshanghai.com with the new line.

What’s included:

  • A nice new orange line!
  • Routeplanning information: just drag between each station
  • A Metropedia article for every station with info, routes, pictures and maps
  • Mandarin pronunciations for every station
  • First and last train times for each station (be careful, trains stop just after 4pm initially!)

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Update 7th December

  • Updated ticket prices for all journeys
  • Improved route-planning for Line 7
  • Locality maps for every Line 7 stations in Metropedia

Coming soon

The Big Orange Snake: Shanghai Metro Line 7 sneak preview

Shanghai Metro 7 will begin trial operation on 5th December. Initially, trains will run between 9am and 4pm, with the operation times increasing over time. Line 7 is a north-south line, from Shanghai University to Huamu Road. Snaking its way through Shanghai’s centre, it adds many new interchange opportunities, including at Jing’an Temple with line 2 and Changshu Road with line 1, before crossing the river into Pudong and intersecting with Longyang Road (for the Maglev).

We’re busy preparing exploreshanghai.com for the launch of the new line. See below for a sneak preview of the new map!

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Trains run longer on Shanghai Metro Line 3 and 4

Welcome back from the October break! Community member ‘aeiounm’ alerted me to updated timetables for Shanghai Metro line 3 and line 4, which came into effect on September 28th.

Thanks to two new trains, the time between services during rush-hour is now only 5 minutes (though you still may have to wait a long time off-peak).

First and last train times have also been changed (for the better, mainly!) Trains on Line 3 now run 30-40 minutes later. The last trains now depart at 22:30 and 22:35, arriving at the termini stations at 23:34 and 23:40. Line 4 has also received some love. The last trains now run about 15 minutes later, with the last Line 4 trains reaching Yishan Road at 23:30.

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Check which lines are open at a glance

Another late night at the office? Worried you’re going to miss the last train home? We’ve just pushed out an update to all our maps (Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Hong Kong) which lets you see at a glance which lines are still open.

Log on to ExploreShanghai at 10:33pm and you’ll see something like this: the greyed out stations are already closed, while the white stations still have train services.

Open and closed stations
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