Two old streets in Shanghai are good for tourist to having an imagination of the old Shanghai and people life in the past. Other special streets for instance Fuzhou Road specialized in books, Maoming Rd and Changle Rd are for cheong-sam, Weihai Road is the gathering of auto accessories…

Shanghai Old Street (Fangbang Road(M)
Located between Zhongshan Road(E) and Henan Road(S) it is a street with local specialties such as products and architectures. Most shops and stores are in the ancient Chinese construction design so you can do shopping and sightseeing at the same time. The famous Yuyuan Garden is near there and also Yuyuan Garden Bazaar is closed to it. When in the Old Street you can not miss them. Another reason you should go there is if you are lucky, you can meet the street performances of Chinese puppets and acrobatic and musical show. You can find touristy gimmicks such as silk items, clothes, furnishings, knick-knacks, arts and handicrafts, jewelries. If wanted you can also have a try of the local food there including Chinese biscuits, candies preserved meats, herbs etc. You will find great fun to browse the shops and watch street life.

Qibao Old Street
Qibao Old Street is a commercial street of Qibao Old Town of Minhang District in Shanghai and south 3 kilometers from Hongqiao Airport. There is a temple named “Qibao” with 7 legend treasures inside. That is why this town is called “Qibao”. Qibao Old Street is located in the center of the old town and its north street is famous for arts, crafts, curio, calligraphy and paintings; its south street is major for special snacks.

Fuzhou Road Cultural Street
Are you looking for some books or Chinese traditional stationeries? Fuzhou Road is your destination full of book stores, CD shops, stationery stores as well as publishing houses. Fuzhou Road was usually called “Simalu Road” as it is one of the four local roads leading to Huangpu River after year 1843. Fuzhou Road with the east end to the Bund and west end connecting to Xizang Road(M) is reputed as “China”s No.1Cultural Street” compared to other busy commercial streets. Here are some information of famous stores and companies there:
China Scientific and Technical Bookstore: 221 M Henan Road
Shanghai Book City: 465 Fuzhou Road 20001
Shanghai Foreign Language Bookstore (Shanghai Book Traders): 390 Fuzhou Road 200001
www.sbt.com.cn/En/
Shanghai Ancient Books Shop: 401 Fuzhou Road 200001
Shanghai Musical Books Shop: 655 Fuzhou Road
Shanghai Cultural Mansion: 355 Fuzhou Road 200001
Shanghai Art Articles Store: 402 Fuzhou Road 200001
Shanghai Huifeng Sheet Store: 305 Fuzhou Road 200042
Shanghai Changzheng Mapping Instrument Store: 280 Fuzhou Road 200001
http://www.sh-yiqi.com/wel.htm
Yangzhenhua Pen Village: 300 Fuzhou Road 200001

Cheong-sam Street in Shanghai
Two famous cheong-sam roads in Shanghai they are Changle Road and Maoming Road Changle Road only 100 meters has many small cheong-sam shops. Foreign finery are managed here accompanied with those French “Garden Lane” and European sidesteps. Every cheong-sam shop stabilizes in this street with long decades. It is one of the most popular places to get tailor-made cheong-sam.
Maoming Road is another charming street for Chinese style dresses, furthermore, it brings into more international flavor. The characteristics of strong color and exaggerated style attracted many tourists from abroad. When you are shopping for cheong-sam you can enjoy the Baroque style buildings along road.

Musical Instrument Street in Shanghai
Fenyang Road: Luxury hides behind its elegance
Shanghai conservatory of music is the source of musical atmosphere in this street. It is said 70% pianos of Shanghai is sale from Fenyang Road though there are only 10 piano shops. It is a prevalent phenomenon; piano shops along this road have their own factory behind the store such as Parsons Music, Changcheng Tiqin, Jianhua Tiqin etc.
Jinling Road: plain and simple
There are more than 40 musical instrument stores in Jinling Road. The buyers here are most common people and those at the beginning of music students. This street collects all kinds of musical instruments arranging from western horns to folk waist-drum and grand piano to gasket.

Hardware Street in Shanghai
Beijing East Road will guide you find your machine accessories and others. As it is neighborhood Nanjing Road and is the main traffic drag connecting the Bund and People”s Square private cars are more than crowed persons.From Sichuan M Road to Xizang M Road numerous shops big or small thickly dot along this street. It can be generally divided into two parts; one is the gathering of apparatus products, another part is the collecting of daily hardware products. From this road you can find a mind-blowing of all kinds of electronic components such as valves, gearmotors, controls, screws, metal components, mechanical accessories, circuit breakers and much more.
Ningbo Road Upholster Hardware Street with a length of 1245 meters stretch from Sichuan M Road to Liuhe Road. It was built in year 1848 and had formed to a upholster street since year 1938.
The upholstering and building material stores increases every year and they will enable Ningbo Road to become a much larger-scale trade center.

Auto Accessories Street in Shanghai
Weihai Road is a famous auto accessories and fittings street in Shanghai, and is the biggest retailer market for auto assistant products. It was said that there has been151 stores within 1000 meters in year 1996. There are now not only shops for fittings but also stores on sale of autos, autobikes and electromotion vehicles.

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