Tilanqiao Prison 提篮桥监狱Tílánqiáo Jiānyù

About Tilanqiao Prison

Built from 1901 as the gaol of the Shanghai International Settlement (the Ward Road Gaol) and once billed as the largest prison in the Far East, Tilanqiao keeps cell blocks and other buildings dating from 1917 to 1935 behind walls more than 5 metres high. Its inmates were moved to a new prison in Qingpu in 2024, and that year the city and Hongkou District were studying how to reuse the old compound.

How to get to Tilanqiao Prison

The main gate is at 147 Changyang Road in Hongkou's Tilanqiao Historic Area, a few minutes' walk from Tilanqiao station on Metro Line 12 and from the Jewish Refugees Museum; the prison museum inside took only group visits in 2024, so individual visitors should expect to see just the walls and gate from the street.

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
• 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
• Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 under 10 km
  Ancient Chinese bronzes, ceramics, painting and jade, now shown at Shanghai Museum East
• 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: Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum 上海犹太难民纪念馆 (under 10 km), North Bund International Cruise Terminal 北外滩国客中心 (under 10 km), 1933 Old Millfun 1933老场坊 (under 10 km), Yangshupu Waterworks 杨树浦水厂 (under 10 km), Shanghai Ocean Aquarium 上海海洋水族馆 (under 10 km), Jin Mao Tower 88th-Floor Observation Deck 金茂大厦88层观光厅 (under 10 km).

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