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Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall vs Jade Buddha Temple
Both Jade Buddha Temple and Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall are praised by reviewers writing for major publications. On balance, Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall ranks significantly better than Jade Buddha Temple. Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall comes in at #1 in Shanghai with endorsements from 9 reviewers such as Frommer's, Michelin Guide and Condé Nast Traveler.
Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall
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No.100 Renmin Main Street, Huangpu District, Shanghai 200003
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Fodor's
"To understand the true scale of Shanghai and its ongoing building boom, visit the Master Plan Hall of this museum."
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Concierge
"More interesting than it sounds, this dramatic five-story glass building showcases the city's future urban development through detailed models and multimedia displays."
Frommer's
"If you want to see what a city of the future is really going to look like, take yourself over to this museum on the eastern end of People's Square."
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Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"Some cities romanticise their past, others promise good times in the present, but only in China are you expected to visit places that haven’t even been built yet."
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Travel + Leisure
"On the third floor of the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center there's a room-size scale model of the city in 2020."
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Jade Buddha Temple
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170 An Yuan Road, Shanghai
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Fodor's
"The temple is built in the style of the Song Dynasty, with symmetrical halls and courtyards, upturned eaves, and bright yellow walls."
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Frommer's
"Though an active Buddhist monastery today, the real emphasis at Shanghai's most popular temple is squarely on tourism."
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Michelin Guide
1 Star
"The superb Temple of the Jade Buddha (1924), an emblematic symbol of architecture from the Song dynasty."
Lonely Planet
"Inside the Jade Buddha Temple, follow the right-hand corridor past the Hall of Heavenly Kings and the Guanyin Hall to arrive at the Jade Buddha Hall."
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Afar Magazine
"This temple houses two rare jade Buddha statues imported from Burma in 1882."
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