🇨🇳 【上海Vlog】南翔古鎮の地元散策と上海博物館｜China Shanghai Travel Vlog上海2024
This is Narita Airport. In front of the China Airlines Lounge. JAL’s alliance is OneWorld, but I mistakenly barged into the Skyteam’s China Airlines lounge 😅 They were very polite and didn’t show any annoyance.
Thank you very much! Pulling myself together, I’m heading to the JAL Sakura Lounge. AirAsia cabin attendants, a sight you don’t see at Haneda. After going up the escalator, it turned out to be the Suite Lounge lol. Going up, then going down. What am I doing? (lol) Finally made it to the Sakura Lounge reception. This might be my first time at the JAL lounge in Narita.
It’s my first JAL international flight in over 10 years, and the first since their restructuring. It has two floors: the upper floor for dining and the lower floor as a relaxation space. I’ll rest in a corner for a while. The boarding gate. This is already China. Everyone is in a hurry, lining up even though boarding hasn’t started yet. Boarding has begun. Flight JL877 13:50 Tokyo (Narita) → 16:40 Shanghai (Pudong) Boeing 737-800, 165 total seats, 12 business class seats. I couldn’t pre-select a seat, but I got 19A, a window seat at the front.
JAL’s economy seats are very comfortable. JAL has flights to both Hongqiao and Pudong in Shanghai, but this one is for Pudong. A great deal from a JAL sale, one-way for 24,710 yen.
The base ticket was 13,800 yen, with taxes and surcharges making up almost half. The in-flight meal has arrived. A collaboration with Shiseido Parlour. JAL exclusive Häagen-Dazs ice cream.
The maple cookie is delicious! For these two months, it’s Beef Stroganoff. High level for economy class. I have a new respect for JAL (speaking so arrogantly 😁). Preparing for landing. The flight is 3 hours and 50 minutes, so it’s a little farther than Ishigaki Island. Pudong Airport is on the eastern coast of Shanghai. A long, long walk from the arrival gate to immigration… Fingerprint registration machine for foreigners. You need to do this first. I got through immigration smoothly in about 15 minutes. The monorail and subway are directly connected on the 2nd floor, so I’m heading up. I had zero cash, so I tried an ATM, but it didn’t work.
A suspicious old man even came up to me offering to exchange money at a cheap rate, so I left. Seeing the characters for “Public Security” (公安) makes me a bit tense (lol). After some confusion, I bought a ticket with Alipay and boarded the Maglev train. 50 yuan (1,000 yen). It covers a distance that takes 45 minutes by subway in just 8 minutes.
It’s like an amusement park ride 😄. By the way, it’s 6 yuan (120 yen) by subway. It reached 300 km/h in no time. But it started decelerating right after that. Arrived at Longyang Road Station. Transferring to Metro Line 2. Bought a metro ticket with Alipay, and there’s always a baggage check. The atmosphere of the subway feels similar to Seoul. Arrived at Century Avenue Station, where my hotel is. I can’t make any sense of the map. To the exit that seems closest to the hotel. It’s crowded and vibrant. This area is a new district with many foreign hotels and financial companies.
The cluster of skyscrapers can be reached by going straight down this main street to the right. The electric scooters running silently on the sidewalk are scary. A 10-minute walk. Arrived at the Holiday Inn Pudong. Check-in. Since it’s a foreign-affiliated hotel, English was fine. A high floor, the 28th floor. The key card is wooden and has a cute design. I’m stingy, so I don’t usually stay in such decent hotels (lol). It has a bathtub. The night and morning views from the room. A robot joined me in the elevator. Apparently, its job is to deliver items from the 1st floor to the rooms. The person who ordered was waiting. There were restaurants lined up across the main street from the hotel, so I headed there. A Lanzhou beef noodle shop. I saw quite a few of this type of shop afterwards. Lanzhou, Gansu Province in Northwest China. It’s a Halal dish that doesn’t use pork, as many Muslims live there. They are all migrant workers. The lady is also wearing a hijab. The characteristics of Lanzhou noodles are clear broth (one clear), daikon radish (two white), chili oil (three red), cilantro or leaf garlic (four green), and the yellow of the noodles (five yellow). “One clear, two white, three red, four green, five yellow.” The 5th yellow, the noodles, are hand-pulled and characteristically long. An old man staring at something lol. The soup was light, so I seasoned it myself.
The noodles and thinly sliced beef were also delicious. 28 yuan (560 yen). The next morning. I’m heading to a different subway station from the one I came to last night. Pucheng Road Station on Line 4. I’ve gotten used to buying tickets by generating a QR code with Alipay.
Later, I found out you can just scan the QR code directly at the ticket gate to ride. About an hour with one transfer. Transfer from Line 4 to Line 11 at Caoyang Road. About an hour later, arrived at Nanxiang Station. There’s a large shopping mall in front of the station. A cute two-seater three-wheeled taxi.
It looks like it would tip over if it went fast. It’s about a 20-minute walk to Nanxiang Old Street. You pass through a normal residential area. I left early in the morning, so I haven’t eaten breakfast. After wandering around a bit, I decided on this place, though it looks like a chain store. I ordered and paid through the app using a QR code. Dry noodles and wonton soup for 19 yuan (380 yen).
No complaints for the price. Just keep walking straight. I’m mumbling that the sidewalk has just been beautifully paved. Ear-cleaning shops that I see occasionally. Just imagining it is a bit scary. It’s a pet dog, but it’s roaming around freely.
I feel like this used to happen in Japan too. Since it’s a water town, there are bridges everywhere. The discount food store where I did some shopping on the way back. There was a market in a place like this. As a market enthusiast, I couldn’t just pass by 😆. I wondered if they were just loud, but the people around were chuckling, so it seems they were really fighting. Douya are bean sprouts. They sell them in large quantities. An egg seller. It’s a small, cozy market. Shaobing (baked flatbread). Looks delicious. If I had known there was a market, I would have eaten here~ Is this a duck and chicken shop? Side dishes are lined up. I feel like I could spend a whole day around here. Finally arrived at the entrance of Nanxiang Ancient Town. Chinese-style music right away (lol). The apartments are also old. Fengji Lao Fandian (Nanxiang Branch). What a magnificent restaurant. It’s not open yet. It’s unclear what this is. A massage parlor for the visually impaired. I think they’re probably very skilled, but
I’d be stuck without being able to use writing or translation apps to communicate. This whole area is full of massage parlors.
I wonder if any Japanese tourists have tried it? Still haven’t reached the main tourist area. I can finally see it. This is the scenery you see in tourist guide photos. The number of tourists is increasing. Almost all are Chinese. I think they come near here by tour bus or car. I’m the only weirdo walking from Nanxiang Station. Too many trash cans, I can’t see the map lol. The shop on the right is crowded since morning. This tower is the symbol of this town. It’s smaller than I expected. There’s another tower, making it a pair of twin towers. Yunxiang Temple. A temple founded 505 years ago. It’s also called Baihe Yunxiang Temple because two cranes perched on a giant rock that was here. Rebuilt in 2004. Guanyin (Goddess of Mercy). Garan Hall. Daxiong Baodian (Main Hall). Three Buddha statues. The hand positions are each different. Manjushri. There aren’t three people lol. I’ve come to the outer perimeter of the old town. There are shops lined up, but I can’t tell if they’re for tourists or locals. There are motorcycle shops everywhere. Youcha is not a “tea shop,” but a northern-style snack shop that serves traditional northern soup (Youcha) and light meals. Returning to the old town. Nanxiang Historical and Cultural Exhibition Hall (Free). A model of the entire old town from the past. “Tanyuan” A Ming Dynasty garden. I didn’t go in. A cat cafe in the center. Taking the backstreets on the way back. The shopping center in front of the station. A swimming school for toddlers. The world’s Uniqlo, which you see everywhere. In the end, I had clay pot rice for lunch in the shopping center.
What a blunder to go to Nanxiang and leave without eating xiaolongbao… I returned to the center of Shanghai and went to the Shanghai Museum. It’s one of China’s three great museums, along with the Palace Museum in Beijing and the Nanjing Museum. They said reservations for the day were full, but when I mumbled that I was leaving tomorrow, the security guard let me in as a special exception! And it’s free here. Perhaps because the move to the “Shanghai Museum East” which opened in 2024 is underway,
there were few exhibits. My 3-day, 2-night trip to Shanghai has come to an end.
I headed to Seoul, but I lost my video camera
and lost all the footage from this point on 😂. Thank you for watching!
今回は、上海中心部からわずか1時間という近さにありながら、海外からの観光客にはまだあまり知られていない「南翔古鎮」をじっくりと散策しました。水郷の情緒あふれる古い町並みと、地元の人々の生活が息づくストリートを巡り、その日常に溶け込むような贅沢なひとときを体験。上海の「知られざる魅力」に触れることができました。 さらに、中国三大博物館の一つと称される「上海博物館」にも
00:00 成田出国
04:37 上海入国
08:18 ホテルチェクイン
09:47 蘭州牛肉麺
10:53 南翔へ移動
12:12 南翔地元の街歩き
19:24 南翔古鎮入場
25:58 云翔寺
32:26 上海博物館