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Longhua Pagoda 龙华塔Lónghuá Tǎ
National heritage site · Shanghai, Shanghai
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shanghai
- Region
- Shanghai
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Longhua Pagoda
An octagonal seven-storey brick-and-wood pagoda whose main structure was built in 977 under the Wuyue king Qian Chu, in the early Northern Song, standing across Longhua Road from Longhua Temple. Later additions were removed in the 1950s and the pagoda was restored to its Song form; it is not open to climb, and is usually seen together with a visit to the temple.
How to get to Longhua Pagoda
On Longhua Road in Xuhui District, about 150 m from Longhua station (Lines 11 and 12).
Nearby
- Former French Concession 原法租界 under 10 km
Plane-tree streets, garden villas and shikumen lanes for Shanghai's best city walk - 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 - 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 - Lujiazui 陆家嘴 under 10 km
Shanghai's skyline in a loop of river: spheres, a twisting tower and the Bund opposite
Also within 20 km: Longhua Martyrs' Cemetery 龙华烈士陵园 (under 10 km), Tomb of Xu Guangqi 徐光启墓 (under 10 km), Xujiahui Origin heritage area 徐家汇源 (under 10 km), St. Ignatius Cathedral 徐家汇天主堂 (under 10 km), Shanghai Botanical Garden 上海植物园 (under 10 km), Early Buildings of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Xuhui Campus) 上海交通大学早期建筑 (under 10 km).
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