Sometimes when you’re riding the Shanghai Metro it can be hard to know where in the city you are. By popular demand we’ve added the Huangpu River as a blue line on our interactive Shanghai metro map. Now you’ll never be confused whether you’re in Puxi or Pudong.
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Check which lines are open at a glance
Another late night at the office? Worried you’re going to miss the last train home? We’ve just pushed out an update to all our maps (Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Hong Kong) which lets you see at a glance which lines are still open.
Log on to ExploreShanghai at 10:33pm and you’ll see something like this: the greyed out stations are already closed, while the white stations still have train services.
12 more fixes and improvements
We want to make the ExploreMetro maps as good as possible, so we’re constantly fixing bugs and making improvements! Here are a selection of fixes made recently. If you spot any glitches, bugs, or text errors, or you have any suggestions to improve our maps, please get in touch!
Shanghai PDF metro map / 上海地铁PDF地图
Today we updated the printable PDF versions of our Shanghai metro map. The new English version includes the new line 8 stations and there’s a new Chinese version. If you have any comments or suggestions for the PDF versions, please get in touch.
A new look for our maps
Today we launched a new standardised look for our four city sites ExploreShanghai, ExploreBeijing, ExploreGuangzhou and the brand new ExploreHK.
The navigation bar at the top of the screen has been simplified to give you quick access to the two most popular areas of the site: the interactive map and “pedia”.
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ExploreHK – introducing our Interactive Hong Kong MTR map
We’re pleased to announce the newest addition to ExploreMetro’s city metro maps: ExploreHK.com is an interactive map of the Hong Kong MTR.
Shanghai Metro Line 8 extended
Today Shanghai’s Metro Line 8 opened its second phase. The previous southern terminus was Yaohua Road in Pudong. The new route travels 14.2km into Pudong to the Aerospace Museum.
The full list of new stations, from North to South is
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