CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- A bookstore is like a harbor for your heart, where you can have a rest. Recently, it’s getting colder and colder in Chongqing. Where are ideal places for hanging out? Why not enjoy quiet time in a bookstore! What are the special bookstores with beautiful decoration in Chongqing? Let’s have a look!

Zhongshuge

In addition to its unique decoration style, Zhongshuge also offers free borrowing service for customers. Sample books are pasted with red labels and well protected with book covers, waiting for readers. If you can’t find the book you want, just ask the staff.Imagining that you read through a book without distractions in a quiet place surrounded by books and then raise up your head wistfully, you may find that it is as of the world is opening up in front of you. With this immersion, you will surely take the initiative to build your own spiritual world even without a sound reading habit.

There is no threshold for reading, and Zhongshuge offers a better reading environment for you. The bookstore staff will remind that you should borrow no more than two books a time; the camera should not cause inconvenience to others; and you should not block the way while taking photos.

Address: Floor 3, Zhongdi Square, Yangjiaping, Jiulongpo

Business hours: 10:00-22:00 from Monday to Sunday (no entry after 21:30)

Dangdang Bookstore

Located at Jiefangbei Guotai Plaza, it’s the paragon of Dangdang.com to march towards the physical bookstore.

Inside, there is a huge 10-meter-tall artistic book wall. Th vertical book wall is connected seamlessly with the round roof. You will be marveled when you look up, feeling like living in the dreams presented by movies. It can not only satisfy your desire for reading, but also be appreciated as a rare piece of art. Here, some random shots will form a collection of beautiful photos.

All books here are real except for the calligraphy on the roof and other high places. There are literature works, classic picture books and curriculum materials, which are easy to get.

Besides, there are arch reading booth in the store, all with special design. Reading space is also spared between the shelves, manifesting the value attached by the Bookstore to reading. This unit design offers both space for reading and a beautiful view, resembling the conception in a Chinese poem, “the bright moon adorned your window, while you adorned someone else’s dream.”

Business hours: 10:00-22:00 from Monday to Sunday

Address: Floor B2, 108 PARK, Jiefangbei Guotai Plaza

Junge Bookstore

You may think that we made a mistake in recommending you Junge Bookstore. After all, what’s beautiful about an outdoor garden, a cat, a leg-lost bamboo chair, some old wooden desks…? Let me tell you that you are wrong.

Leaving from Huangjiaoping Center Street Bus Station, and going through an old lane, you will see the small pragmatic and artistic Junge Bookstore sitting beside the railway.

Different kinds of maps, books and collections recording the history of Chengdu-Chongqing Railway are preserved here. Besides, cultural lectures, open cinema, cultural and creative market on weekends, food day and other activities are held on a regular basis.

After Junge Bookstore got famous online, visitors came here from the opposite side of the railway. In the Bookstore, you can order a covered-bowl tea and sit for a whole day. When it’s time to eat, you can even have a home-cooking meal with Junge. The Bookstore offers no menu or take-out service, and provides you a meal at 15 yuan. On Sunday, you can also enjoy an outdoor movie.

Business hours: 08:00-22:30 from Monday to Sunday

Address: Sanjiao Lane, Tielu Fourth Village, Longyin Road

Wuyue Academy

Located on the 7th floor of a residential building, it looks like an academy from a distance. However, if you look closely, it’s more like a botanical garden hiding in the city.

From washbasin, toy car, to messenger bag and leather shoes, every piece of things you can think of is used to its utmost for growing green plants.

In addition to these, there are obsolete motorbikes, rusty doorplates, enameled cups, old sewing machines, archaic hand-operated telephones, which will remind you of the 1980s and 1990s in a second.

Most of the books here belong to the owner’s own collections and some of them are endowed by visitors as souvenirs. Compared to textbooks, the collections here are more cultural.

Business hour: 13:00-19:00 on every Monday - Sunday

Address: No. 158, Jialing River Binjiang Road, Yuzhong District 

(Translated by Zhou Tuo, Fathom Language Limited)