[2024 Shanghai Attraction] Travel Guide for Fuxingdao Park (Updated Oct)

Shanghai Fuxing Island - Time stands still here.

🎯Fuxing Island with a story Fuxing Island is the only closed inland island on the Huangpu River in Shanghai. It was originally named Zhoujiazui Island. ➡️In 1926, the Shanghai Dredging Bureau dredged and filled the beach to form the island and established a foreign sports club. ➡️In 1937, after the August 13 Incident, the Japanese invaders occupied the entire island and converted the sports club garden into a Japanese-style garden. ➡️In 1947, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it was returned to the Dredging Bureau and renamed Fuxing Island. ➡️In 1951, Fuxing Island Park was opened to the public. The sports club of that year is now the Yangpu Binjiang Party and Mass Service Station. ✔️How to play: The park is not big but it has a long history. The camphor and plane trees are towering, and the pavilions and cherry blossom forest🌸 are very Japanese. There are few tourists, and the cats in the park are leisurely sunbathing, as if it is a paradise. If you have time, Shanghai Gongqing Forest Park and Shanghai International Fashion Center are also nearby. ✔️Nostalgic tour: Time seems to stand still on Fuxing Island. I haven't been here for decades, and Fuxing Island in my memory is still the same. If you want to see the old industrial style of Yangpu, Shanghai in the past, you can go and feel it. There is a Dinghai Ferry nearby, which has remained the same for decades, and you can take a ferry to Gaomiao, Pudong. 🚘How to get there: Take Line 12 of the subway and walk a few hundred meters to get there. The park does not have a parking lot, so you need to find a place to park by yourself.

It's not about experiencing the 1980s Shanghai on Fuxing Island in Altay

Fuxing Island, having been in Shanghai for over a decade, I only recently discovered this island in the river and hurried over to explore! Follow me today on a CityWalk route through Shanghai in the 1980s. Walking route: Fuxing Island Station (Exit 2) on Line 12 → Fuxing Island Park → Shipyard Park → Fuxing Island Restaurant → Dinghai Bridge Ferry → Jinqiao Road Ferry → EKA Celestial Space → Xiepu Road Ferry → Minsheng Road Ferry → Sister Tan's Hunan Cuisine Restaurant 📷 Here are a few photo spots to share, worth saving: Fuxing Island: Fuxing Island is not very big, less than three kilometers from end to end. There's only one Fuxing Island restaurant on the island, near the right side of the subway station, mainly serving Northwestern noodle dishes. The interior decoration is very retro and fun. There are many old houses on the island, but they are difficult to enter for photography; most are warehouses and residential buildings, with one converted into apartments and a creative park. Fuxing Island Park: The park is very small, a 20-minute stroll at most. But it's also not crowded, making it easy to capture a secret fairyland vibe. There's also a large grassy area for camping—just don't get your hopes up too high, a casual walk will do. EKA Celestial Space: A renovated old factory area, perfect for taking photos and highly recommended. If you're tired from walking, you can also have afternoon tea here. The only downside is that it's too crowded on weekends. Xiepu Road Ferry: Coming here to take photos at sunset is definitely picturesque. It's said to be a filming location for the movie La La Land, and there are quite a few people coming to check in. Walking distance: 13.8km from Yangpu District through Pudong (Biking from EKA to Xiepu Road, the rest on foot, totaling 10km) Total time: 2.45H (including coffee breaks and ferry rides, reserve three hours if you plan to take photos) Two-step route: Marco's Fuxing Island + Xiepu Road walking route Food recommendation: Sister Tan's Hunan Cuisine Restaurant: A Hunan restaurant I've always liked, with authentic flavors. Ending today's walk with a full table of Hunan dishes is satisfying! Take advantage of the good season and come out for a walk this weekend!

Fuxing Island Park

Fuxing Island Park is a place where time stands still, boasting a rich history and ecological environment. It is home to many historical buildings and attractions, and is said to be the last stop of Chiang Kai-shek before leaving the mainland. Known as Shanghai's 'loneliest park', it continues to tell its stories. The historical evolution of Fuxing Island Park is vivid and not so long ago.

Fuxing Island Park

Fuxing Island Park is located in Yangpu District, just a short walk from Exit 2 of Fuxing Station on Metro Line 12. Upon entering the park, you can see the Fuxing Rock; turning right, you will find a path lined with blooming cherry trees, where you can take photos on the lawn, enjoy the artificial hills and flowing water, and view the Japanese-style cottages... Turning left leads to a vast camphor forest, and further in, you can see the White Mansion, a building with historical stories. It was the last gathering place for Chiang Kai-shek before he left Shanghai. The White Mansion was renovated and opened in 2021, now housing books, specimens, and more, making it a great place for parent-child education. Fuxing Island Park, a niche spot surrounded by greenery and rich in historical tales!

Fuxing Island | Shanghai's 'Last Secret Land' | Come here to slack off when work is too tiring

In Shanghai, the streets are bustling with neon lights and the skyline is filled with towering buildings. If you want to experience the quiet old times, why not visit Fuxing Island? In Yangpu District, there lies a tranquil little island—Fuxing Island🏕️, shaped like a crescent moon, it is the only enclosed island on the Huangpu River, and even delivery guys refuse to deliver food onto the island! 📍Check-in Spots 【Gongqing Road】Gongqing Road is the only main road on the island, and cycling along it is very relaxing! The road is flanked by factory buildings hidden behind walls. The brick structures, walls covered with climbing plants, and the signage in bold calligraphy all exude a sense of the past. 【Fuxing Island Park】Fuxing Island Park is the only scenic spot on the island, and during the suitable camping season, the park is filled with camping tents⛺️ 【Fuxing Island Restaurant】The retro-style Fuxing Island Restaurant gives off a vibe of an old goods store mixed with the feel of an old Taiwanese idol drama. 📍Transportation 1⃣️Shanghai Metro Line 12: Fuxing Island 2⃣️For cycling, you can choose to enter the island via 【Dinghai Road Bridge】

The only island on the Huangpu River is home to Fuxing Island, a Japanese-style garden with a rich historical heritage

Fuxing Island Park may not be large, but its green landscape is a delight to the eye. The park, verdant as the sea, is brimming with life, offering a refreshing respite for visitors. If you come here in early spring, you can walk through the cherry blossom path and savor the fragrance of the early blooms; in summer, sit under the big trees with a few good friends, chatting and enjoying the cool breeze, for a truly pleasant life; by the golden autumn, the yellow fallen leaves form paths, picturesque like a poem; in winter, sunlight filters through the gaps in the leaves, casting shadows that sway with the trees, adding a touch of warmth to the cold season. This park has witnessed nearly a hundred years of historical changes, as well as the humiliation of old China and the rejuvenation of new China. The park was originally used as a recreational resort for the Shanghai Dredging Bureau's Sports Association in 1930, but after the outbreak of the 'August 13th' War of Resistance in 1937, it was occupied by the invading Japanese naval infantry, and the entire Dinghai Island was occupied by the Japanese army as barracks and supply depots, and was renamed 'Showa Island', with a Japanese military command established. The Sports Association's garden was also transformed into a Japanese-style courtyard, with evergreen trees, various shrubs, and cherry trees planted throughout. Japanese-style cottages, pavilions, and towers were built. Thus, after eight years of war and Japanese occupation, the garden took on a unique Japanese courtyard style. After the victory of the war in 1945, it was occupied by the Nationalist army's navy, and the Fuxing Island Liberation Monument was erected in the garden (destroyed during the Cultural Revolution). There is a small and exquisite villa in the park called 'Bai Lu', where Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Shanghai on the Jiangjing ship on April 26, 1949, at the end of the Liberation War, to deploy military defenses in Shanghai in a desperate struggle. However, by May 7, Chiang saw that the situation was hopeless, the People's Liberation Army was unstoppable, and the Nationalist army was in disarray and utterly unable to resist the imminent liberation of Shanghai. Chiang fled Shanghai overnight by boat, heading to Taiwan in a dismal state, marking his last 11 tragic days on the mainland, spent on Fuxing Island, now in the 'Bai Lu' of Fuxing Island Park. After liberation, the Shanghai Port Authority took over Fuxing Island, which was rejuvenated in 1951 when Fuxing Island Park was renovated and reopened by the People's Government, expanding to over 40,000 square meters. The park is surrounded by green hedges of palm, metasequoia, and coral trees. The park has over 10,000 square meters of lawn, and is planted with many fragrant camphor, magnolia, cypress, black pine, metasequoia, pittosporum, osmanthus, wisteria, and other trees and shrubs. Last year (2023), the park was also rated as a three-star park by the Shanghai Garden Management Bureau. Let me tell you a secret, maybe you don't know? The Fuxing Island Park Party and Mass Service Station is now housed in the 'Bai Lu', which was renovated from the 'Bai Lu', listed as Shanghai's fifth batch of outstanding historical buildings. Transportation route: Exit 2 of Fuxing Island Station on Metro Line 12 Opening hours: Open all year round, free of charge, no reservation needed Self-driving address: No. 386, Gongqing Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai

Yangpu Riverside Power Plant to Fuxing Island

12/28🕹 Rushing before the end of the year, I want to finish what I owe. Last time from Qinhuangdao to Baiqi Coffee (you can see the previous notes), This time I plan to finish the remaining part of Yangpu Riverside, from Yangshupu Power Plant Ruins Park➡️Yangpu Fashion Center➡️Fuxing Island If you are like me, you can walk separately, you can enter from Tengyue Road, Yangshupu is under construction and it's very dirty. Of course, you can also walk along the riverside trail. 📍There is a post station in the ruins of Yangpu Power Plant, there are 🕹 inside, it will be updated continuously, very good. Come out and head east, and soon you will reach One Foot Apart (the low-carbon eco-friendly store of One Foot Garden, only coffee and snacks, very creative.) ⚠️There is a steel seal here, just outside One Foot Apart, everyone pay attention. 📍There is a small door (it is said to open at 11 o'clock), and you can go through it to the Fashion Center, which is very convenient. And as soon as you pass, you can see the party group post station of the Fashion Center, and there is also a 🕹. 📍Finally, take the 577 from the Fashion Center to Fuxing Island Park Station, enter Fuxing Island, and there are two identical 🕹 in the Fuxing Island Party Group Bailu Post Station, one big and one small. 🚩🚩🚩 The island feels like a world away, old warehouses that are picked up, a not wide Youth Road, a bus, a subway. People live simply. I went to Fuxing Island Park to take a look. It is the last pure land in Yangpu, peaceful and peaceful. The weather is good, and it is a good choice to stay away from the hustle and bustle of the city. 577 can go directly, Metro Line 12, and you need to walk a distance. But there are few people here, and it's comfortable to walk. 10:00～13:00 (have lunch), it's still very relaxed. If you take the subway to Fuxing Island Station, you need to walk a distance from Fuxing Island Park.

Revisited Fuxing Island Park during the National Day holiday

Fearing the crowds during the National Day holiday, why not choose a quiet park for a walk? Thus, I revisited Fuxing Island Park. Fuxing Island Park is located in Dinghai Road Street, Yangpu District, Shanghai, with the address of 386 Gongqing Road, originally the Shanghai Junpu Bureau Sports Club. The park was built in the 1930s, occupied by the Japanese army during the Anti-Japanese War, and returned to the Junpu Bureau after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. In October 1948, the "Fuxing Island Recovery Monument" was erected and destroyed in 1967. After the liberation of Shanghai, it was taken over by the Port Authority, transferred to the Engineering Bureau in February 1951, slightly renovated, and opened to the public in May, covering an area of 4.19 hectares. In June 2009, the municipal and district governments carried out a comprehensive renovation of the park. Through "retention, restoration, promotion, and rectification", the renovated park highlights the Japanese-style cherry blossom forest, Heart Lake, and the historically significant "Bai Lu" in the landscape, making it a park with a strong Japanese garden style. The excellent historical buildings in the park, garden residences, the original "Bai Lu", built in the 1930s, brick and concrete structure. The building has a regular plan, a sloping roof, and cement plastered walls. It used to be the Shanghai Junpu Bureau Colleague Club. In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek stayed here before going to Taiwan. It is now the Yangpu Binjiang Party Mass Service Station - Yangshupu Post Station Fuxing Island Park Station. Fuxing Island Park has 71 species of trees and shrubs such as camphor, Guangyu, Longbai, black pine, cedar, plane tree, sea banyan, red maple, holly, boxwood, jujube, iron jojoba, osmanthus, wisteria and more than 3,000 plants, as well as a large number of ground cover plants, surrounded by palm, water fir, coral trees and other trees as hedges. There are also free badminton courts and gateball courts in the park. When I went there, I just met two young men who had just finished a game of badminton and said they often come here to play for free. Now there are more visitors to Fuxing Island Park than before. When we came here in 2018, there were not so many people. Now the Gongqing Road on the west side of the park has a new look and is no longer the same as it was five years ago. At that time, the Gongqing Road area can be described as gray sky and gray ground.

Cicadas sing in the long summer days - the White House on Fuxing Island

The 'Love House' on Dongping Road is famous at home and abroad for the love legend of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling. Do you know that there is also a house named 'Lu' in Shanghai related to Chiang Kai-shek, which is the 'White House' on Fuxing Island. This was his last stop before withdrawing from the mainland, and one can imagine the atmosphere at that time. I visited here more than a decade ago, when it had not been renovated and used, the old house exuded a hint of mystery... As time goes by, it has now been transformed into a Binjiang Party Mass Service Post Station, suitable for public leisure visits. I like the handsome white style. Several rooms have different functions, including historical review, ecological propaganda, and a reading room. The backyard is simple and fresh, with grapevines covering the pergola. A few huge camphor trees are asymmetrically distributed on both sides of the front door, with dense shade blocking the sun, and the view is full of dripping green. The White House is located in Fuxing Island Park and has a Japanese style due to historical reasons. Heart-shaped lake, bamboo cool pavilion, small waterfall, fern moss, dense forest and bamboo, although small, it has a sense of depth. The cicadas sing in the summer, but the mood can calm down. You can take the subway line 12 to the island, or reach it via Dinghai Road Bridge. It is recommended to ride a bike. The only road on the island is Gongqing Road, which can instantly pull people back to the green years of the 1980s.

It also has a history of more than 100 years. It was established in the early 20th century and is a crescent-shaped artificial island with an area of 1.5 square kilometers. I changed my name. I was originally called Zhoujiazui Island. I was called the island in the back. It was during the Japanese occupation. Later, after the end of the war, it was changed to Fuxing Island. It has a close relationship with the history. It is a free park and it is closed at 6-7 pm. Generally, you can take the 577 bus. Of course, it is more convenient to take the No. 12 line. The exit of Fuxingdao Station is just outside. The greening in the park is not bad, there are also metasequoia, palm, etc., as well as camphor tree, magnolia, black pine, wisteria, etc., the variety of trees and shrubs is also very diverse.

It can only be said that this is the day of "Tian Shi! Ge Li! People and!", the sunlight through the glass, curtains and shades of the garden house, the effect is really like a paradise, quiet and dreamy. The park is very pocket-sized, and you can quickly go shopping. You can see the Pujiang scenery from the old outlet of the fashion center nearby. It is also a great choice!

Take a photo with a photographer friend at "Fuxing Island Park", just at No. 386 Gongqing Road, Yangpu District. Take Subway Line 12 and walk to Fuxing Island Exit 2 for 500 meters. No tickets are required. The park is small and beautiful, like Japanese gardens, lush greenery, there are many elderly people who exercise, as well as picnic people, couples... Summer comes to the trees. The Japanese pavilion made of bamboo is very artistic, suitable for the girl to shoot a kimono photo. Going from the park gate to the left hand side, you will see a double-family house with an independent garden. Once Chiang Kai-shek lived here, although the disrepair has been abandoned, you can still see the retro chic. Carpets, wallpapers, curtains... The garden is large and very stylish, making people linger. However, the bungalows are not open to the public.