Astor House Hotel (Shanghai) - Location

Location

The Astor House Hotel has been located on the North Bund of Shanghai, near the northern end of the Waibaidu Bridge (Chinese: 外白渡; pinyin: Wàibáidù Qiáo) (the Garden Bridge in English), since its relocation in 1858 from near Jinling East Road, in the Shanghai French Concession on the southern end of The Bund. Today the Astor House Hotel is located on a 4,580 square metre site and has a total building area of 16,563 square metres with 134 rooms and suites. It is near the confluence of the Huangpu River and the Suzhou Creek, near "the point where the Soochow Creek poured its silt into the river's clouded yellow waters." It is sited at the intersection of Huangpu Lu (formerly Astor Road), Daming Lu (Broadway), Changzi Dong Lu (Seward Road), Suzhou Bei Lu (Soochow Road), and Zhongshan Dong Yi (The Bund) roads. Its mailing address is 15 Huangpu Road. For many years, the Hotel was the best known landmark in the Hongkou District and the centre of foreign social life before the opening of the Cathay Hotel. The Hotel occupies an entire block, and is across the road from the Russian Consulate, and previously the embassies of Germany, the United States and Japan. The Hotel is located near Huangpu Park (simplified Chinese: 黄浦公园; traditional Chinese: 黃浦公園; pinyin: Huángpǔ Gōngyuán), which opened in 1886 as Public Garden; across the road from the Broadway Mansions since its construction in 1935; the Hongkou market, "Shanghai's biggest market, where farmers brought their fowl and produce to sell every day"; and Little Tokyo, the Japanese part of Shanghai.