Hello, what is your impression of shanghai?
I would like to share mine with you all. The train arrived in Shanghai early the following morning. This was not my first visit to Shanghai, so despite its huge size, I expected my final few days to be relaxing since there weren't any sights that I definitely had to go out of my way to see. I booked into my hostel through a website for three night. When I first came to Shanghai the 
year before, I decided that it was my favorite city. After my first day there during this visit I still felt the same. I walked along the Bund and along Nanjing Donglu, China's busiest shopping street. I visited the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall to see what the future holds for Shanghai. I saw a scale model of what the city will look like in 20 years. There were hundreds, possibly thousands, of skyscrapers covering the entire city. Tokyo is part of the largest urban sprawl in the world, but a lot of Tokyo isn't much taller than a few stories. The plans for Shanghai look far more impressive than anything I have ever seen.
My final days in Shanghai were spent strolling around, shopping and relaxing. Things were much cheaper than in Japan,. Shanghai may be an expensive place to visit, but it can also be a cheap place to visit if you want it to be. Sometimes I ate western food for 60 yuan per meal; sometimes I ate local food for around 10 yuan per meal. The last time I came to Shanghai I traveled around by taxi. This time I took the subway. Although the taxi is cheap by western standards, everything adds up.
My departure day soon arrived and I faced the choice of how to get to the airport. I could take a bus, a taxi, or a floating train with no wheels which travels over 400 km/h. I arrived at the Maglev (magnetic levitation) station about three hours before my flight was due to leave. The train floated almost silently to the platform. Soon we were on our way and accelerating to a speed of 431 km/h. Less than a minute after reaching this speed we started to slow down again because we had covered the majority of the 30km journey in just a few minutes. We finally reached the airport 8 minutes after we left Shanghai. It was really an exciting ride, Bye,Shanghai.Bye,China!
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