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Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden 上海辰山植物园Shànghǎi Chénshān Zhíwùyuán
4A scenic area · Shanghai, Shanghai
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shanghai
- Region
- Shanghai
- Type
- Nature
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden
Shanghai's second botanical garden and its largest, opened in 2010–2011 around Chenshan hill and covering 207 hectares. Its central display area has more than 20 themed gardens, among them one set in a former quarry pit, and large exhibition glasshouses, while the wooded hill is kept for conserving native plants. In 2026 the State Council approved its upgrade to Shanghai Chenshan National Botanical Garden.
How to get to Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden
In Songjiang District, about 5 km west of Sheshan station on Metro Line 9, a short taxi or local bus ride from the station.
Nearby
- Former French Concession 原法租界 30 km
Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk - Zhouzhuang 周庄古镇 30 km
Jiangnan's most famous water town, famed for its Twin Bridges and merchant halls - Shanghai Museum 上海博物馆 30 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 30 km
A Ming-dynasty garden of rockeries and dragon walls beside a Taoist city temple - The Bund & Lujiazui Skyline 外滩与陆家嘴 40 km
1920s banks on one bank of the river, a sci-fi skyline on the other
Also within 20 km: Guangfulin Culture Park 广富林文化遗址 (under 10 km), Sheshan Hills 佘山 (under 10 km), Shanghai Smurfs Park 上海蓝精灵乐园 (under 10 km), Moon Lake Sculpture Park 月湖雕塑公园 (under 10 km), Happy Valley Shanghai 上海欢乐谷 (under 10 km), Yunbao Future City Art Town 云堡未来市 (under 10 km).
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