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OCT-LOFT

Top choice in Shenzhen

By far the best place for strolling or simply hanging out in the city is the breezy OCT-LOFT complex, a warren of repurposed communist-era factories criss-crossed by cobbled laneways. It's also a great place to browse a multitude of contemporary art spaces in between pit stops at the area's excellent cafes, design shops, music venues, bars, restaurants and Shenzhen's best bookshop.

OCT-LOFT (OCT stands for Overseas Chinese Town) started out, appropriately for Shenzhen, as a TV manufacturing base before it was converted into a creative industries hub. Staying here is recommended, if you can snag a room at the hip Shenzhen Loft Youth Hostel, formerly a factory workers' dormitory complex. Note that OCT-LOFT isn't actually served by OCT metro station.

Transportation

metro: Line 2 to Qiaocheng North, exit B
metro: Line 1 to Qiaocheng East, exit A

Contact

Address

2 Jinxiu Beilu, Nánshān District. 南山区锦绣北街2号

Get In Touch

https://www.octloft.cn/

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