We’re pleased to announce the newest addition to ExploreMetro’s city metro maps: ExploreHK.com is an interactive map of the Hong Kong MTR.
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Shanghai Metro Line 8 extended
Today Shanghai’s Metro Line 8 opened its second phase. The previous southern terminus was Yaohua Road in Pudong. The new route travels 14.2km into Pudong to the Aerospace Museum.
The full list of new stations, from North to South is
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Print or download your Shanghai metro map PDF
UPDATE: See this updated article for new version in English and Chinese
Our ExploreShanghai metro map is great for finding stations and plotting routes, but what if you’re away from the computer? We now provide a handy PDF version of the Shanghai metro map in A4 size, which you can print out and take with you on your trip.
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Line 10 metro station names announced
The official names for the Shanghai Metro Line 10 stations have been announced. The line runs from Hongqiao Airport, through the centre of Shanghai, via such landmarks as Xintiandi, the Yu Garden and Shanghai Zoo, ending at Jiangwan New Town in north Shanghai. There are multiple interchanges with existing lines, see below for details!
Every Shanghai Metro Station in 10 hours, 14 minutes and 42 seconds
It was pitch dark and freezing cold as I sat outside Songjiang Xincheng metro station at 5.45am on Monday morning, eating dumplings for breakfast. I had set myself the challenge of visiting every Shanghai Metro Station in one day, and was thinking this was not the most glamorous of beginnings. After a few minutes the staff rolled up the shutters and let me and a few other bleary-eyed commuters into the station.
Shanghai Metro Challenge – LIVE!
Today (Monday) I will be attempting the Shanghai Metro Challenge, trying to visit every station on the network in just one day.
You can follow my progress during the day via exploremetro on Twitter or text me on +86 13482644407.
Full report and photos to follow on Tuesday. Jiayou!
Every Shanghai Metro station in one day
On Monday 19th January I will attempt to visit every Shanghai Metro station in one day!
In the last five years the Shanghai Metro system it’s grown from three lines to eight, with 147 stations. It’s now the largest network in China and the sixth largest in the world. In London, people have been doing the Tube Challenge for decades, but as far as I know, this is the first attempt with the current network in Shanghai (feel free to prove me wrong in the comments). By 2020, I fear it will be impossible to visit every station in a day!
Line 9 gets linked up
Since Shanghai Metro Line 9 opened last year, the stretch from Guilin Road to Yishan Road has been served only by a shuttle bus.
No more: as of 28 December 2008, you can now take a Line 9 metro train directly to/from Yishan Road, where you can interchange with Line 3 and Line 4.
The Explore Shanghai metro map has been updated to show this new connection. If you drag between two stations to plot a route, you’ll now see the new faster times.
Update January 2010 Line 9 was extended to Century Avenue in Pudong
106 ways to say a Beijing Subway station
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…
Attaching reindeer to Maglev train…
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.
