上海磁浮交通科技馆 — Attraction in Shanghai

Awesome station and train to get the world's fastest land travel experience of over 430kmph. It's awesome how the Chinese have invested in these technologies and presented it in an awesome manner so that people can enjoy. The price is obviously higher than subway at 50RMB, and considering the waiting time too, it won't save you over 20-30 mins to interchange from subway to Maglev line. But it's an awesome...

Adjacent to the Longyang Road Station, this museum lets you touch actual maglev track segments - the electromagnetic coils stay slightly warm even when inactive. The simulator demonstrates how the train's levitation creates a 10mm air cushion that feels like floating on mercury. Don't miss the display showing how Japan's and Germany's competing maglev technologies differ in their approach to...

Fantastic place to visit if you happen to transit through this station. Exhibits are very informative and I was very surprised by the lack of propaganda (they are very honest about origins of maglev, who developed it etc. I was expecting some Chinese glorification but they gave credits to the Germans which I wasn't expecting from this Red country)....