Plan your visit
- City Chongqing
- Area Jiangbei District
- Nearest Subway Line 9 (Hualongqiao Station, requires walking across the bridge)
- Vibe Unique
- Crowded Low (Vast and relatively empty)
- Price Free
- Suggested time 1.5h
About this place
A vast underground shopping labyrinth built in the early 2000s beneath a large public square, preserving the complete aesthetic of early Chinese commercial mall culture from that era in almost perfectly intact form.
Drifter says
"Take Metro Line 9 to Huarongqiao Station and walk across the bridge, or take a short taxi. Most shops open in the afternoon — mornings are quiet. This is not a luxury shopping destination. Walking its endless subterranean corridors is genuinely fascinating as a time capsule of early 2000s Chinese retail culture — the Y2K aesthetic is completely unintentional and entirely real."
