Morning Fu Hang, until it sells out
From Shandao Temple station to Huashan Market, upstairs. Fu Hang is morning only, until it sells out. Do not come at noon just to queue. That sitting is breakfast — do not add Nanmen He Xing as another snack afterward. Then one show at Huashan 1914. The other warehouses are a walk-by. Do not also stack an Ximending shop loop. Time the breakfast queue separately from the hall. If you are still queuing for soy milk at nine, enter the hall instead. Stop the day here. Leave the other district for tomorrow. Do not add a stop before the last train, and trust the station board over this guide.
Syntrend or Guanghua — one building
The old Guanghua mall no longer trades on its former site. What stands now is Guanghua Digital Plaza at Zhongxiao Xinsheng, in the same belt as Syntrend. Go deep in one building; the other is a pass-through. A digital mall is not a substitute list for the Xinyi department stores. After one building, stop. This axis is steadier than Elephant Mountain in the rain, but do not also add the Palace. Pick one floor of one digital building. Do not navigate to the old Guanghua site. Keep this stretch inside two hours. Note the metro exit before you start, leave as soon as you have seen or eaten, and do not queue a second door.
Do not append Ximen or Xinyi
The Ximen streets, Ay-Chung and Du Xiao Yue are the Ximen day. Two Xinyi halls and Elephant Mountain or the observatory are another dusk. Raohe is the Songshan evening. A Huashan day ends at one show plus one digital building. Eslite Dunnan has closed — do not cross to the East District for that bookstore. Huashan ends at Shandao Temple or Zhongxiao Xinsheng. Ximen and Elephant Mountain should not appear on the way back. Stop once in the middle. When you have eaten or looked, walk on. Do not turn passing shops into a list, and go back by the station you came in on.