SHENZHEN, TONIGHT — UPDATED IN REAL TIME

The live line through Shenzhen's foreign community.

One map of where the city's international crowd actually goes — live music, bars, districts, and the metro lines that get you there. Not a listings dump. A route.

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01 · The map

Ten districts, one city, ten personalities

Shenzhen's foreign-facing nightlife isn't one street — it's scattered across the metro map. Each district has its own line, station, and mood.

02 · Featured

One we'd send a friend to

Editorial pick — pending final verification

Terrace Shekou

Live music, an international crowd, and the Sea World waterfront on your doorstep. The first stage for artists joining the Shenzhen View network — and the place the whole map points back to.

DistrictShekou · Sea World
Metro linesLine 2 · Line 12
TonightOpen · music from 9PM

Also visiting Beijing or Shanghai? Both cities have their own live guide in this network.

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03 · Directory

The Shenzhen View Directory

Vetted venues across nightlife, dining, and cafes — every listing carries a Getting There chip. No dead links to Google Maps.

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Featured · 精选

Featured picks

Vetted, verified, and worth your time — the venues we'd send a friend to.

Categories · 分类

Browse by category

Pick a category, then filter the full list below — every result mapped to its nearest metro station.

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Questions · 答疑

Common questions

How are directory listings chosen?
Every listing is checked before publication — we confirm the business is open, verify the address against the metro dataset, and make sure it's genuinely relevant to Shenzhen's international community. We don't list places we wouldn't send a friend to.
How do I get my venue listed?
Free basic listings are open to any legitimately operating Shenzhen business. Email contact@segplaza.com with your name, address, category, WeChat/contact info and a couple of photos. Review takes a few days.
What makes a listing "Featured"?
Featured listings get top placement, a highlighted badge, and homepage rotation. It's either earned through genuine editorial merit or available as a paid placement.
Why does every listing show a metro chip?
Because "near People's Square" isn't an address. Every listing here is tied to the same station dataset that powers the full metro directory, so you always know the line, the station, and roughly how far the walk is — before you leave the house.
How often is the directory updated?
New listings are added as they're submitted and verified; existing ones are reviewed periodically. Closed venues are marked rather than silently deleted, so old links and reviews still resolve.
04 · Guides

The practical stuff nobody writes well

District guides are everywhere. Getting home safely at midnight isn't.

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05 · Latest

News & Articles

Venue openings, reviews, and the city stories that don't fit a listing.

06 · Calendar

What's on this week

Structured with Event schema so Google can show it directly in search — not just buried in a feed.

07 · Metro

The full Shenzhen Metro directory (16 lines)

Every line, every station, bilingual — the same dataset that powers every "Getting There" chip on this site.

Reference maps

City map & district map

Shenzhen city map City map · click to view full size Shenzhen district map District map · click to view full size
Getting in

Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport (SZX)

Metro Line 11 (Airport Express) reaches Terminal 3 in about 30 minutes from Futian — Line 1 (Luobao Line) also connects at the eastern end, terminating at Airport East.

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Shenzhen Bao'an (SZX)

Line 11 Airport Express — a three-minute walk from the Airport (T3) metro station to the terminal building. Line 1 also reaches Airport East at the western terminus.

Shenzhen Airport Ground Transportation Center

Ground Transportation Center

Buses, taxis, and long-distance coaches connect directly from the GTC — the fastest way out if your onward journey isn't on the metro network.

Getting around China

Shenzhen Railway Station & train tickets

Shenzhen Railway Station (Luohu, Line 1) is the most central of the city's five stations — bullet trains to Guangzhou run as often as every 5 minutes at rush hour, and overnight sleepers reach Shanghai and Wuhan directly.

Shenzhen Railway Station

Shenzhen Railway Station (深圳站)

1003 Jianshe Road, Nanhu Avenue, Luohu District — 100m north of the Luohu/Lo Wu border checkpoint to Hong Kong. Metro Line 1.

Bullet trains to Guangzhou East: ~1h 12m, from ¥80. Overnight sleepers reach Shanghai (~19h) and Wuhan (~13h).

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Shenzhen Railway Station bus map Bus routes at Shenzhen Railway Station · click to view full size
The full picture

Shenzhen's 10 districts

The neighborhoods above are where the international social scene actually concentrates — this is the complete administrative map, for context.

Futian
Futian 福田
Luohu
Luohu 罗湖
Yantian
Yantian 盐田
Nanshan
Nanshan 南山
Bao'an
Bao'an 宝安
Longgang
Longgang 龙岗
Longhua
Longhua 龙华
Pingshan
Pingshan 坪山
Guangming
Guangming 光明
Dapeng
Dapeng 大鹏新区
Plan a trip

Fastest route between any two stations

Estimated time and fare — confirm the exact fare in the official Shenzhen Metro app before you travel.

Around each station

What's actually near each stop

Search-intent content linking straight back into the ecosystem — more added over time.

Full directory

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