Shanghai General Post Office 上海邮政总局Shànghǎi Yóuzhèng Zǒngjú

About Shanghai General Post Office

Shanghai's head post office, completed in 1924 on the north bank of Suzhou Creek to a classical design by Stewardson & Spence, with giant Corinthian columns and a corner clock tower crowned by statues of Hermes, Eros and Aphrodite. Part of the building houses the Shanghai Postal Museum, which reopened in December 2024 after new displays were installed, while a working post office still occupies part of the old main hall.

How to get to Shanghai General Post Office

On Tiantong Road at the north end of Sichuan Road Bridge in Hongkou, near Tiantong Road station on Metro Lines 10 and 12. The museum is closed on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.

Nearby

• Lujiazui 陆家嘴 under 10 km
  Shanghai's skyline in a loop of river: spheres, a twisting tower and the Bund opposite
• The Bund & Lujiazui Skyline 外滩与陆家嘴 under 10 km
  1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other
• Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 under 10 km
  Ancient Chinese bronzes, ceramics, painting and jade, now shown at Shanghai Museum East
• Yu Garden & City God Temple 豫园与城隍庙 under 10 km
  A Ming-dynasty garden of rockeries and dragon walls beside a Taoist city temple
• Former French Concession 原法租界 under 10 km
  Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk

Also within 20 km: Holy Trinity Church 圣三一堂 (under 10 km), North Bund International Cruise Terminal 北外滩国客中心 (under 10 km), Sihang Warehouse 四行仓库 (under 10 km), 1933 Old Millfun 1933老场坊 (under 10 km), Madame Tussauds Shanghai 上海杜莎夫人蜡像馆 (under 10 km), Shanghai Ocean Aquarium 上海海洋水族馆 (under 10 km).

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