Nanjing Garden Expo hides a fantastic bookstore! May Day trip with kids.

✨Nanjing Garden Expo hides a fantastic bookstore! May Day trip with kids + photo ops📚

📍Location: Nanjing Garden Expo · Librairie Avant-Garde (Silo Store)
🚗Transportation: Navigate to Gate 3 (free parking!) or take Subway Line 4 to Mengbei Station and transfer to the Garden Expo shuttle bus

🌟[Enter the Hogwarts Magic Silo]
Who would have thought that an abandoned cement factory silo could be transformed into a literary bookstore!
10 giant circular silos are interconnected
Spiral staircases are like magical passages to the sky
Sunlight streams through the cross on the dome
My 3-year-old daughter looked up and said, "Mom, we're in a space capsule!"

📸[100% photo-worthy spots list]
1️⃣Cross dome shot from below (wide-angle mode on)
2️⃣Spiral staircase shot from above (shoot from the 3rd floor down for a time tunnel effect)
3️⃣Archway at the junction of the silos (pretend you're in Inception)
4️⃣Rainbow bookshelf in the children's picture book area (squat down to the child's eye level)
👗Outfit suggestions: Morandi colors/white dress + canvas shoes

👶[Hidden parent-child activities]
✔️Stamp collection game: Get a postcard at the entrance and collect 5 silo stamps to exchange for a limited edition bookmark
✔️Picture book afternoon tea: Buy a Tatsuya Miyanishi dinosaur series book + chestnut cake
✔️Viewing platform telescope: You can see the outline of Zijin Mountain!
⚠️Note: Strollers need to be checked in, but there are lazy sofas on each floor

⏰Opening hours: 10:00–20:00 (recommended to go after 3pm for beautiful lighting)
💰Cost: Entry 130/person (free for children under 1.4m) Bookstore is free to take photos!

💌Real experience:
I thought this popular spot would be crowded
But on May Day, we had the whole silo to ourselves!
The industrial design even made my husband, who's not into photos, take pictures for me
The children's area has more foreign original picture books than the mall
The smell of coffee, watching my child quietly reading
Suddenly, I felt that this is what quality parent-child time is all about

📌Tips:
▫️The Garden Expo is huge! Recommend buying a shuttle bus ticket (30/person for the whole day)
▫️The Silo Store is in the Time Art Valley area. There is also a Coca-Cola Museum nearby
▫️Wear sneakers! You need to climb metal stairs between the silos

As soon as we left, my daughter was clamoring to come back next week
Books and architecture are the best aesthetic enlightenment💫