Shanghai Tower

Shanghai Tower is a megatall skyscraper located in Shanghai, China. Shanghai Tower is situated very close to both the Jin Mao Tower and Shanghai World Financial Center, which are two other tallest buildings in the city. Due to its significant height Shanghai Tower is very easy to be seen from the Bund and many other different places in the city. There’s a river named Huangpu River between the district where Shanghai Tower located in and the Bund, and confusingly no bridges is built near the area, visitors cannot directly walk there from the Bund.

The good thing is that the basement of Shanghai Tower is connected to a station of subway, tourists can take Line 2 to directly arrive at Shanghai Tower.

Another way is to take the ferry, this is a good way for people wandering at the Bund, just go to the wharf and buy a ticket, it costs only 2 Chinese Yuan. Maybe it’s not as convenient as subway, but by this way you can enjoy the views of the river and the cityscape. After getting off of the ferry, Shanghai Tower can definitely be seen, just walk toward it, it may take 5-10 minutes to get there.

And bus and taxi are the other choices.

Shanghai Tower has 128 stories above the ground, and 5 stories under the ground, the architectural height and the total height are all 632 meters, the structural height is 580 meters, the highest accessible point is at 587 meters.

As the originally planned spire of Shenzhen Ping An Financial Center was removed, Shanghai Tower’s height of 632 meters makes the tower the tallest building in East Asia, and the second tallest worldwide, only after Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

However, the structural height of Shanghai Tower is not the tallest in China, the uppermost part of the tower is comprised of parapet, a structure that cannot provides any floors, the roof of the tower is actually at 587 meters. The tallest building in China by structural height is a tower in Tianjin named Goldin Finance 117, which measured 597 meters to its roof.