Take advantage of the good weekend to check in the Wutaishan Main Store of Pioneer Bookstore.

Location:

Underground Parking Lot of Wutaishan Gymnasium, No. 173 Guangzhou Road, Gulou District, Nanjing City (directly opposite Gunandu Hotel)

🕙🕙开放时间：

Monday to Thursday 10:00 - 21:00

Friday 10:00 - 22:00

Saturday to Sunday 9:30-22:00

🚗🚗Transportation:

Subway Line 2 to Shanghai Road Station, exit Exit 2, and walk 1.4 kilometers (I think it is more convenient to share bicycles, but there is a section of the road that is relatively narrow, so you have to be careful when riding.)

Metro Line 1 to Zhujiang Road Station, Exit 1, walk 1.1 kilometers

Driving: Just navigate directly by the address, but I didn't see a convenient parking place in front of the door.

Highlights and features:

The main store was transformed from an underground garage. It is a particularly inconspicuous bookstore. There are no road signs, and there are no hints on the roadside in front of the store. If it weren't for the guidance of navigation, I might not have believed that there would be a bookstore hidden there. I almost thought that the eye-catching stationery store next to it was a bookstore. The store logo with white characters on a gray background supports the legend of "China's most beautiful bookstore."

At the entrance of the bookstore is a replica of Rodin's Thinker sculpture, and there is also a blind reading gift box placed at the entrance of the store. I feel that if you don't choose a book with a specific goal, you can try blind selecting the gift box, and you can always read it. It's fate. During Christmas, I picked a blind book for my best friend online and placed an order and left a message asking for more Nanjing elements. The younger brothers and sisters in the store took special care to choose books and gifts for me. So I am very happy to go to a physical store and experience this warm and emotional bookstore.

The store has a large book selection and reading area, cultural and creative product exhibition and sales hall, avant-garde art cafe and salon activity area. Carefully selected books are placed on the slopes of the hall, decorated with orange table lamps at regular intervals. Bookshelves are also placed on the walls on both sides. There are two clear yellow parking dividing lines on the slope, the huge cross and the "stranger on the earth" that come into view the moment you turn around. These logos create a very beautiful artistic conception, provide shelter for the soul and become a reader. Spiritual home.

My favorite is the postcard wall in the store. A long postcard wall divides the entire space into two parts. Some people are grateful for their past experiences on the postcard wall, some are sending messages about the future, some are witnessing their love and friendship with strangers, and some are telling the visitors. Pour out your depression and troubles. You can read other people's stories, or you can leave your own memories.

👀👀拍照指南：

Gate: The storefront with white characters on a gray background and the green plants on the walls are the best witnesses of your integration here.

Slope: Books are increasing layer by layer, and people are gradually growing up

Under the Cross: The solemn cross, the light is coming

Postcard Wall: Listen to the stories of strangers and leave your own memories

Bookshelf: Read classics and appreciate life

While writing this note, I happened to see a 2017 blog, which talked about the blind selection process of blind book selection in Pioneer Bookstore's online store. There are some rumors and some rumors, but I don't know whether it is true or false. I suddenly felt that life was an encounter, everything I could encounter was fate, and being able to get the book in my hand was also a fate.

Of course, the only drawback is that all books in the store are sold at the original price, which is not advantageous compared to the price on e-commerce platforms. So many people just take photos and buy cultural and creative products.

There is a signboard with white characters on a gray background and an inconspicuous location. There is no sign on the roadside indicating that there is a bookstore here. Go forward boldly or you will miss it.

The poster at the door bears the introduction of the bookstore and the locations of various branches. The title of "China's Most Beautiful Bookstore" instantly shines on this inconspicuous underground garage. The following two pictures are activities at the bookstore.

there are books everywhere

Occasionally turning around, a huge cross came into view. The "strangers on the earth" at the top of the slope provides a spiritual haven for readers.

There are poems and sculptures by famous writers in every corner, and propaganda pickets of various writers are placed everywhere.

Postcard wall, there are other people's stories here, but I don't know which story belongs to you.

Various interesting cultural creations