Near the other end of Nanjing Road, opposite The Bund, is a public park aptly called as People's Park. Originally, I wanted to visit Shanghai Museum and Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall located in the same area. Unfortunately, I didn't know that the latter is closed every Monday, so I lost interest in visiting the museum and crossing the road to see People's Square.
Anyway, my wife and I entered the park from the gate between exits 16 and 17 of the People's Square station of subway lines 1, 2 and 8. Since it was winter, the trees were dull and there wasn't so much color. There is a mini-theme park in the middle, though we didn't check it out.
Following the path that led us to the center, we got into a garden-like area where we found the Museum of Contemporary Art. We weren't interested and it wasn't also free, so we didn't go in. There was also a big pond, and there were a lot of locals hanging out playing games near that pond. I thought most of them were gambling because I saw money on the tables, but didn't have the guts to come closer and see what they were actually doing.
Going around the pond, we thought we'd be back to where we got in, but we found ourselves going out of the park from a different gate. It looked like the northern side of the park and what seemed to be the main gate. This gate was near exit 9 of the station.
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