Tom's world is the best indoor recreation center in Shanghai. There are a lot of arcades designed for kids. It is also a chain recreation center. There are 8 of them in Shanghai. Most of them are in shopping malls, so they are easy to get to.

Jin Jiang Amusement Park (锦江乐园) is the best out-door amusement park in Shanghai. It has the only roller coaster in urban Shanghai, and also a lot of other equipments that can bring excitement and fun to visitors.

Located at the very CBD of Shanghai - West Nan Jing Road area, Shanghai Majestic Theatre (美琪大戏院) has been known as one of the oldest and most famous theatres. It has seen a lot of events, including the performances by the most famous Peking opera(京剧) artist - Mr.Mei Lan Fang and ballet dancer wulannowa.

Shanghai Oriental Art Center (上海东方艺术中心)
Shanghai Concert hall (上海音乐厅)
Shanghai Grand Theatre (上海大剧院)

Karaoke is quite popular in China. Good KTVs in Shanghai not only provide nice audio and video equipments. They usually also provide a comfortable room with couches and even buffet. Singing can be really enjoyable in these KTVs.

Party World(钱柜), aka Cash Box
Party World is also known as Cash Box. Most of its branches have luxirious decoration that would make you feel like walking into a 5-star hotel. Party world is the most popular chain KTV in Shanghai. They provide buffet for free.

Hao Le Di (好乐迪)
Melody (麦乐迪)

There are more than 40 cinemas in Shanghai, some of them are a little too old. However there are still quite a few cinemas are equipped with recent audio and video technologies so that watching movies there can be really enjoyable.
It usually is a little expensive to watch a movie in these cinemas. Hot movies can usually cost 70 or 80 RMB for each person. Sometimes even mroe...
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Xu Jia Hui (徐家汇)

Yong Hua Cinema City (永华电影院)
used to be called Paradise Warner Cinema City. It was co-invested by Warner Bros Inc. and Shanghai Film group in 2002. Later Warner Bros pulled back from China and the cinema was renamed. Since it was designed by Warner Bros so it was optimized for delivering best movie experience.

Kodak Cinema World (柯达超级影院)

City Center

UME International Cineplex
"UME" means "Ultimate Movie Experience". You can tell from the name that they are pretty confident about the equipments that they put in the Cineplex. It is a quite stylish cinema located in Xin Tian Di (新天地), the best place for hangout in Shanghai.



Peace Cinema(和平影都)
BroadBand International Cineplex (万裕国际影城)


Lu Jia Zui (陆家嘴)


Stellar Cinema City(正大星美影城) is the best cinema in Pu Dong . The cinema was said to be designed as "Five Star Plus" so the equipments are supposed to be quite good. The decor of the cinema is quite interesting. They adopted a lot of Egyptian elements.

Nextage Film Art Center (新世纪影城)