Shànghǎi Sights

Shanghai No 1 Department Store

#20 of 574 things to do in Shànghǎi

#20 of 574 things to do in Shànghǎi

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Good for: photo background from the park

Not good for: quiet upscale shopping

  • Address
    • 800 East Nanjing Rd
  • Transport
    • People’s Sq
  • Hours
    • 9.30am-10pm

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Lonely Planet review for Shanghai No 1 Department Store

Opened in 1936, the Shanghai No 1 Department Store was formerly known as the Sun Company and was one of East Nanjing Rd’s big department stores (with Wing On, Sun Sun and Sincere) and the first equipped with an escalator. Today it averages 150,000 shoppers a day over 11 levels of merchandise.

 

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    Among the first and largest department stores in Asia...

    rlmiller recommends this,

    In a controversial move, my wife's grandfather insisted on building a modern, Art Deco high-rise using a Chinese architect... the recent restoration (not including the wooden escalator, I think) suggests he chose well. He and three friends learned the department store business in Australia, returned home to found the four major stores cited above, and prospered until the Communist era, when several relocated to Hong Kong.

    Good for: photo background from the park

    Not good for: quiet upscale shopping

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