Oriental Pearl TV Tower in Shanghai. The Oriental Pearl of Shanghai. How to get inside
Oriental Pearl Tower (Oriental Pearl Tower)- one of the tallest television towers in the world and a symbol of Shanghai.
general information
At the Pearl of the East TV Tower there is an observation deck with a transparent bottom. The cost of a lift ticket depends on the altitude level. There are three of them: 90, 263 and 350 meters. If you want to save money, take the climb up to 263 meters. At this height there is a completely normal view of the city and a transparent floor underfoot. At the same time, the cost savings are significant.
During the tourist season, be prepared to queue for the elevators. This may take about an hour or more.
Photos of the Oriental Pearl Tower
Tower Pearl of the East
Ticket office at the entrance. Notice how people crowd into one cash register when the other is almost free.
At the top of the tower
Sometimes fog hangs over Shanghai, which makes it difficult to take good photos.
In addition, the glass in the tower is not the most transparent, so if you are going to take photographs and take good photos, take polarizing filters.
“Pearl of the East” - a restaurant for lovers of oriental cuisineOriental cuisine is an entire art, a science, an entire world. As true gourmets who know a lot about beautiful women, delicious food and a refined attitude to life, Eastern people in the traditions of their cuisine embody this idea and elevate it to the rank of philosophy. Attitudes to life in general, and to its various facets in particular, have left their mark on food culture, which is why we, Europeans, find it so unusual, bright and even somehow exotic. It’s not difficult to find restaurants with a truly oriental flavor now: in Moscow has many establishments specializing in this direction. But there are few truly good restaurants with the proper level of service and varied cuisine. “Pearl of the East” is one of them. |
The restaurant “Pearl of the East” hospitably opens its doors in the Teply Stan district, on the street. Profsoyuznaya, 150. The restaurant, living up to its name, offers its guests a bright interior, excellent cuisine and excellent service. The restaurant “Pearl of the East” reigns in a pleasant twilight, illuminated from time to time by bright flashes of light and music. Guests of the restaurant can enjoy the warm atmosphere of the evening to the accompaniment of unforgettable oriental dances performed by professional belly dancers. The restaurant “Pearl of the East” has a clear division into zones: there is a large hall for 100 people, next to it there is a small banquet veranda for 30 people, and there is also a large banquet veranda for 60 people. The “feature” of the restaurant: small cozy houses for 6-12 people, and, finally, a hookah room for 12 people.
The space is divided in such a way that no one disturbs each other. In the evenings, guests are entertained by artists and a DJ. In a word, the restaurant “Pearl of the East” has created excellent conditions for a good rest.
"Pearl of the East": delicious joysThe menu of “Pearls of the East” is based on the traditions of Azerbaijani, Vainakh and Caucasian cuisines. There are also European dishes, as well as a Japanese page. The restaurant's chef especially recommends trying:
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It’s especially nice that you can taste all these delicacies and works of culinary art not only during the day and evening, but also at night, because the restaurant is open around the clock. The choice is yours.
"Pearl of the East": services and payment methods
Restaurant "Pearl of the East" open to everyone around the clock. Additional services include organizing children's parties, food delivery, takeaway food, and breakfasts. Clients are offered a wine list, barbecue, meat menu, fish menu, Lenten menu, Halal dishes, draft wine and draft beer, organization and holding of banquets and hookah.
There is a special children's menu for children. Regular customers are provided with pleasant discounts of up to 20%. Every evening the restaurant plays live music, and from 01.00 until the morning there is a disco for everyone. For the peace of mind of guests, free guarded parking is provided, equipped with a video surveillance system, entrance to the restaurant is free, and dress code is not regulated. The average bill in a restaurant is from 1500 to 2000 rubles, credit cards EuroCard, Maestro, Visa Electron, STB, Sberbank are accepted for payment.
“Pearl of the East” is an ideal holiday destination for true gourmets! Welcome!
In 1995, construction of the Oriental Pearl Tower television tower was completed. It is located in the Pidong district of Shanghai and, with a height of 468 meters, is one of the tallest buildings in the Middle Kingdom. In Russia, this tower is better known as the “Oriental Pearl”. Today, Oriental Pearl Tower is used primarily as a business center. The approximate weight of the tower is 120 thousand tons. To support such a structure, the builders installed 3 cylindrical reinforced concrete supports, each 9 meters in diameter, at its base.
The television tower stands out against the backdrop of numerous skyscrapers with its non-standard architecture. Silvery spheres, reminiscent of pearls, seem to be “strung” on the central part of the structure. A total of 11 balls are located on the vertical axis, the diameter of which varies in the range of 9-50 meters. The Oriental Pearl Tower has 14 floors. Some areas of the tower have viewing platforms, and the one that the builders placed closer to the end of the structure has a glass floor.
Just below it there is a “pearl” with a restaurant, which is not only the only establishment of its kind in Asia, located at a great height, but is also equipped with a rotating mechanism. That is, its visitors can explore the whole of Shanghai. The restaurant menu includes Asian and European dishes. Despite the fact that the TV tower is often used for business dinners and meetings by heads of various companies, the prices here are quite affordable. This is explained by the fact that Oriental Pearl Tower is primarily designed for tourists.
In addition to offices and a restaurant, the Shanghai Tower has a hotel with 250 small rooms, a cinema, souvenir shops and much more. Closer to the end of the Oriental Pearl Tower there is an attraction with real “American” races. To reach any floor, visitors to the tower can use one of 6 high-speed elevators. Two of them can accommodate up to 30 people at a time. In addition, the Oriental Pearl Tower has the only double-deck elevator in China. Its capacity is 50 people. The elevators are so fast that it takes just 40 seconds to travel the tower's 14 floors.
At the very foot of the “Oriental Pearl” there is a museum dedicated to the history of the development of Shanghai. It presents the life of the peoples who in ancient times inhabited the territory where the city is located today. Visitors to the museum can enjoy scenes from Shanghai's past, captured in photographs and various exhibits. For example, wax figures arranged in a certain order show the unloading of goods that were delivered along the Silk Road. 100 artists and decorators were responsible for the creation of more than 600 compositions presented in the museum. It took them 5 years of hard work to organize everything. Some of the stone statues presented in the museum are decorated with numerous jewelry: agate, jade, diamonds, pearls and others. There are also real bronze lions here, the fame of which has spread throughout the world. And in order for museum visitors to immerse themselves deeper into the history of Shanghai, oriental music is constantly played during the tour.
The true beauty of the Oriental Pearl Tower's architecture can only be appreciated at night. The “pearls” of the tower shimmer with hundreds of multi-colored lights. At the foot of the structure, lanterns light up, to the side of which fountains play, illuminated from below by neon lamps.
The Oriental Pearl Tower has become a real symbol of Shanghai. No wonder she often appears in many Hollywood films. About 3 million tourists visit it every year.