The hub of Dalian is Zhongshan Square (really a circle) and its spokes are some of tile most interesting streets in the city.
| Japanese and Russian buildings, German cars, KFC and McDonald’s, girls in miniskirts and Western deuce music blaring from the shops give the area an international flavor. The main shopping streets are Shanghai Lu and Tianjin Jie, just to the northwest, where you’ll find designer-label clotlhes and shoes, as well as stalls selling a wide range of pop music, Chinese and Western. The English Language Bookstore, at 178 Tianjin fie, has English novels on tine first floor and Japanese magazines on the second. |
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| There are two Friendship Stores, both on Renmin Lu; the newer one, next to the Furma Hotel, is huge.Beside Zhougshan Lu west past Shengli Square, the train station, and the meandering shopping lanes of Qing Erjie to reach Renmin square, large, grassy and lit with Footlights at night.
The neighborhoods to the south retain their colonial architecture and narrow, tree-lined streets, making for excellent wandering. East of bkenmin Square is Laodong Park, an opera meadowy area on the route of buses #2, 5 and 403.Across from the park gate is a good night market (daily 5-9.30pm). Related information of Dalian |
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