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Every Shanghai Metro Station in 10 hours, 14 minutes and 42 seconds

It was pitch dark and freezing cold as I sat outside Songjiang Xincheng metro station at 5.45am on Monday morning, eating dumplings for breakfast. I had set myself the challenge of visiting every Shanghai Metro Station in one day, and was thinking this was not the most glamorous of beginnings. After a few minutes the staff rolled up the shutters and let me and a few other bleary-eyed commuters into the station.

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Every Shanghai Metro station in one day

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On Monday 19th January I will attempt to visit every Shanghai Metro station in one day!

In the last five years the Shanghai Metro system it’s grown from three lines to eight, with 147 stations. It’s now the largest network in China and the sixth largest in the world. In London, people have been doing the Tube Challenge for decades, but as far as I know, this is the first attempt with the current network in Shanghai (feel free to prove me wrong in the comments). By 2020, I fear it will be impossible to visit every station in a day!

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ExploreMetro is now on Twitter

ExploreMetro has joined Twitter! If you want to keep up to date with the latest information about our metro maps for Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou, follow exploremetro

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We’ll post updates from our blog, as well as links to interesting articles about the main metro and subway systems