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!
I'll be sending updates via Twitter during the challenge, and supporters are welcome to cheer me on. Find out:
Here are the rules I will follow, based on the rules on the London tube forum site
All stations served by Shanghai Metro underground and light rail services (line 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9) must be visited in a single day.
To visit a station, you must arrive and/or depart by an metro train in normal public service.
It is necessary for a through train to stop at the station for the visit to count, although you do not need to get out.
If a stations has two separated parts which share the same name, they must each be visited. This applies to Pudian Road (line 4, line 6), Hongkou Football Stadium (line 3, line 8), Shanghai Railway Station (line 1, line 3/4) and Yishan Road (line 3/9, line 4).
Feet or public buses may be used to transfer from one metro line to another. The use of private motor vehicles, taxis or any other form of privately arranged transport (bicycles, skateboards, Haibao-pulled chariot etc) is not acceptable.
It is not necessary to cover every stretch of track on the network
A log book should be kept throughout the whole journey.
The clock must start the moment the doors close on the first train taken by the challenger(s). It must stop the moment the challenger(s) set foot on the platform at the last station.
147 stations, eight lines, one manic Monday. Wish me luck!
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.
ExploreMetro has joined Twitter! If you want to keep up to date with the latest information about our metro maps for Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou, follow exploremetro
We'll post updates from our blog, as well as links to interesting articles about the main metro and subway systems
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!
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.
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: SHBJGZ.
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.
Meilanhu (美兰湖站)
Luonan Xincun (罗南新村站)
Panguang Road (潘广路站)
Liuhang (刘行站)
Gucun Park (顾村公园站)
Qihua Road (祁华路站)
Shanghai University (上海大学站)
Nanchen Road (南陈路站)
Shangda Road (上大路站)
Changzhong Road (场中路站)
Dachang Town (大场镇站)
Xingzhi Road (行知路站)
Dahua No.3 Road (大华三路站)
Xincun Road (新村路站)
Langao Road (岚皋路站)
Zhenping Road (镇坪路站) - interchange with lines 3 and 4
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.
Every so often you run into something so completely wonderful, it forces you to ask yourself, “how the hell did I never hear of this before?”
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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.
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.
