A romantic June begins with a Citywalk along the Yangpu Riverside in Shanghai! Today, we recommend three “Wandering Yangpu Riverside” routes for you to enjoy flowers, sip coffee, experience nature and human history, and indulge in a slow-paced life~
Route 1：
Huangpu Pier (Former Site) → Qinhuangdao Pier → Maoma Warehouse → Ruirong Shipyard (Former Site) → Fine Weather Coffee → Water Plant Plank Road → Rain Garden → Oriental Fisherman’s Wharf
🕐 25 min
Huangpu Pier (Former Site)
Between 1919 and 1920, six groups of students successively boarded ships at Huangpu Pier to study in France, including revolutionary forerunners such as Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Nie Rongzhen, and Cai Hesen. Visitors can explore the Original Aspiration Departure Exhibition Hall and check in at the bas-relief wall depicting the Diligent Work-Frugal Study Movement in France, looking back at the momentous years.
📍 East Pier, No. 32 Qinhuangdao Road
Qinhuangdao Pier
Qinhuangdao Pier receives about 1 million visitors annually. Here, you can take a boat to enjoy the beautiful scenery on both sides of the Huangpu River, or embark on a journey through the “Century-Old Industrial Exposition Belt” along the Yangpu Riverside.
📍 No. 32 Qinhuangdao Road
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Maoma Warehouse
The Maoma Warehouse was built in 1920 and served as Shanghai’s First Silk Factory after the founding of New China. After the renovation and design, it was opened to the public for the first time in 2019 as the main exhibition hall of the 3rd Shanghai Urban Space Art Season. It has since hosted high-quality exhibitions, providing citizens and tourists with a high-quality cultural experience.
📍 No. 468 Yangshupu Road
Ruirong Shipyard (Former Site)
In 1900, the Ruirong Shipyard was founded by the German firm Reiss & Co. The two existing dry docks are important witnesses to Shanghai’s and even China’s shipbuilding history.
📍 No. 640 Yangshupu Road
Fine Weather Coffee
Enjoy a cup of coffee accompanied by the river view. The shop is located on the southern section of the Yangpu Riverside Pedestrian Path, a waterfront space that combines the beautiful riverside scenery with cultural heritage.
📍 No. 640 Yangshupu Road
Water Plant Plank Road
Next to the Yangshupu Water Plant, the wooden plank bridge is 535 meters long and 4 to 13 meters wide. Using an abstract boat-shaped structure as the prototype and warm wood as the bridge deck, combined with historical relics, ecological greenery, and craft processes, the light bridge is suspended on the structural columns of the pollution barrier net.
📍 No. 830 Yangshupu Road
Rain Garden
The Rain Garden can collect rainwater and gather it into surface water bodies, forming a wetland-like landscape. The planting amount of all aquatic plants inside is precisely designed, and combined with the underground device of the nearby gentle slope, it can purify the water body.
📍 Near No. 1056 Yangshupu Road
Oriental Fisherman’s Wharf
The Oriental Fisherman’s Wharf has a riverside line of about 700 meters and a construction area of 180,000 square meters. It was formerly the Shanghai Fish Market. Urban sculptures depicting the past fish market scenes are set up here, preserving a miniature of this part of the city’s memory.
📍 No. 1088 Yangshupu Road
Route 2:
Soap Dream Space → Yangshupu Power Plant Ruins Park → One Foot Interval · Zero Carbon Themed Store
🕐 38 min
Soap Dream Space
The former production site of what was once known as the “Far East’s Largest Soap Factory” has been transformed into the “Soap Dream Space.” Here, vintage posters full of a sense of the times are hidden among the flowers, and soap bubble-shaped decorations form a “fantasy garden.”
📍 Southeast side of Zhixing Building, Pingding Road, Yangpu District
Yangshupu Power Plant Ruins Park
The Yangshupu Power Plant was once the largest thermal power plant in the Far East and was known as the “Cradle of China’s Electric Power Industry.” The Power Plant Ruins Park preserves and presents the remnants of columns and foundations of the coal processing workshop complex of the original Yangshupu Power Plant, as well as a large number of industrial relics and production process clues outside the flood wall, leaving indelible historical traces.
📍 East side of the intersection of Tengyue Road and Pingding Road, Yangpu District
One Foot Interval · Zero Carbon Themed Store
This is a coffee shop transformed from the ruins of a water purification pool, with environmental protection engraved in its DNA. The “green” environment is not only reflected in the color but also in the ingenious design. The high-power coffee machines and other storage and lighting equipment in the store can achieve zero carbon emissions; the paper cups and tableware are environmentally friendly and biodegradable materials.
📍 No. 425 Anpu Road, Yangpu District
Route 3:
Lang Lang Music World → Yangpu Riverside People’s City Construction Planning Exhibition Hall → Xiudai Coffee → Green Hill → Morning LAB → World Skills Museum → Bridge Park
🕐 16 min
Lang Lang Music World
Lang Lang Music World is located in the core area of Yangpu Riverside. In collaboration with world-class pianist and UN Peace Ambassador Lang Lang, it creates an international platform for music education and exchange for music art dreamers around the world.
It features a specially designed international theater-style concert hall and more than twenty independent practice rooms. The concert hall adopts a wrap-around design, and each independent practice room is equipped with a Steinway piano, providing high-quality hardware and supporting facilities for music art enthusiasts to learn and communicate.
📍 No. 589 Anpu Road
Yangpu Riverside People’s City Construction Planning Exhibition Hall
The Yangpu Riverside People’s City Construction Planning Exhibition Hall was transformed from the old site of Xiangtai Lumber Firm. It is a steel-wood mixed structure with interconnected interior and exterior landscapes, where nature and architecture are integrated. Comprehensively utilizing high-tech exhibition techniques, it is a high-quality public open space that integrates historical memory, theoretical learning, publicity and education, exchange, and interaction.
📍 No. 461 Anpu Road
Xiudai Coffee
Xiudai Coffee has two branches in Yangpu Riverside. One is located on the east side of the first floor of the Yangpu Riverside People’s City Construction Planning Exhibition Hall, and the other is located on the south side of the first floor of Building 6, Riverside International Plaza, No. 645 Anpu Road, Oriental Fisherman’s Wharf.
📍 East side of the first floor of the Exhibition Hall, No. 461 Anpu Road
Green Hill
Green Hill, formerly the Shanghai Haiyan Machine Repair Factory warehouse built in 1995, underwent volume reduction and crossed the road during the renovation process, integrating pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Through technical measures such as vertical greening on the roof, a staggered “sky garden” is formed, making the building itself a part of the waterfront landscape. With lush greenery all around, it looks like a green hill from afar, achieving the transformation from an industrial building to a green ecological building.
📍 No. 1500 Yangshupu Road
Morning LAB
Morning LAB, a coffee shop under the Wuzhang Liufu brand, is located on the first floor of Green Hill. During the day, you can experience the birdsong and flowers of Green Hill, sit in the coffee shop and enjoy a moment of leisure and self-contentment. At night, you can appreciate the beautiful lights along the riverside. At the same time, this is a pet-friendly coffee shop. Bring your “furry friends” for a stroll and feel the warmth of spring even more.
📍 South side of the first floor of the Green Hill Exhibition Hall, No. 425 Anpu Road
World Skills Museum
The World Skills Museum was transformed from the century-old Yong’an Warehouse and is the world’s first physical museum recognized by the World Skills Organization with the name “World Skills.” It is dedicated to showcasing the history and latest trends of international skills development.
📍 No. 1578 Yangshupu Road
Bridge Park
The first phase of Bridge Park covers an area of approximately 3.2 hectares. Inside the park, there is a main landscape axis running from north to south, with six landscape nodes: a sunken plaza, a music plaza, a central valley, a meditation plaza, a children’s activity area, and a skills plaza, forming a spatial structure of one axis and six circles. It is a great place for surrounding residents to relax and have fun, and it is also a child-friendly service point in Yangpu Riverside.
📍 Intersection of Yangshupu Road and Ningguo South Road
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