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Tips for taking a taxi to get around Shanghai

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Taxi driving through Shanghai

In our trip to shanghai, when it comes to having to move around the city, take a taxi It is perhaps the best public transportation option, along with the metro. It is a fast, clean and really cheap service.

Taking a taxi in Shanghai It's simple because there are more than 42.000 taxis circulating around the city, from 150 different companies, although the vehicles have eight different colors.

In Shanghai taxis We will find that the driver is isolated from the passengers by the increasingly common separation fence. The driver will be wearing white gloves that will give us the logical feeling of neatness, and we will be surprised by the profusion of advertising inside the taxi, even with video ads.

La standard taxi fare in Shanghai It is 11 yuan for the first three kilometers, and 2,1 yuan for the next 10 kilometers, and 2,3 yuan for subsequent sections. At night, after 11 am, it is a little more expensive.

The result is that a taxi tour about 20 minutes by Shanghai, which may be the average time to travel through the tourist areas of the city, will cost us less than two euros.

But how will we get along with the taxi driver? The vast majority of Shanghai taxi drivers don't speak English, so the only way to understand each other will be to have the name of the place of our destination written in Chinese.

Interior of a Shanghai taxi
Interior of a Shanghai taxi

To this end, hotels have cards on which the names of the guests are written in English and Chinese. top tourist places in shanghai…and the hotel itself, since we will need it to then return to it by taxi. All you have to do is tell the taxi driver which of the tourist sites indicated on the card we want him to take us to.

In summary, the taxi It is a very public transportation option for move around Shanghai.

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José Luis Sarralde

Journalist and traveler throughout his life, José Luis Sarralde is the founder of Guías Viajar, where since 2008 he has been capturing his travel experiences around the world, specializing in cultural and scenic destinations in Spain and Europe.

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