Tonglu Service Area Aquarium Draws National Attention as a New Landmark Destination

The aquarium at Tonglu Service Area in Zhejiang, China, has quickly become one of the most talked-about new attractions on the country's highway network. What was once a traditional roadside stop has now been transformed into an immersive destination where travelers pause not only to rest, but to explore, watch, and share the experience.

Public reports and social media coverage have highlighted the project for its dramatic underwater atmosphere, large viewing structure, and live mermaid performances, making it a major check-in point for visitors during holiday travel periods.

At the heart of the project is a remarkable large-scale aquarium installation that redefines what a service area can be. Rather than functioning as a simple decorative feature, the aquarium creates a full visitor experience inside the building, combining transparent structure, vertical spatial drama, and immersive viewing circulation. The project demonstrates how public infrastructure can evolve into a destination with tourism, commercial, and social media value.

For Lanhu Acrylic, the significance of this project goes far beyond visual impact. It represents a new direction for public-space design — where large transparent water features become anchors for traffic, dwell time, and emotional engagement. Instead of being a place people simply pass through, Tonglu Service Area now gives travelers a reason to stop, stay longer, and remember the journey.

From an engineering perspective, projects like this are highly demanding. This is not a standard display tank, but a large acrylic water structure designed for public viewing, long-term operation, and complex architectural integration. The combination of oversized transparent elements, large water volume, and immersive circulation experience makes the project especially challenging in terms of safety, visibility, durability, coordination, and maintenance.

What makes this project especially distinctive is its combination of a monumental cylindrical-style aquarium experience with tunnel-style immersive viewing below, creating a strong architectural and visual identity for the service area. The result is not just a water feature, but a landmark attraction within a transportation space.

Lanhu Acrylic has long focused on large public aquariums, commercial water attractions, private luxury aquariums, and transparent acrylic engineering projects. In projects like Tonglu, we bring together thick acrylic manufacturing capability, engineering coordination, and transparent structure experience to help create public destinations that are both visually iconic and technically reliable.

As service areas, malls, hotels, and cultural tourism developments continue to search for memorable attractions, large acrylic aquarium structures are becoming more than display features — they are becoming strategic destination-makers.

At Lanhu Acrylic, we continue to support clients worldwide with thick acrylic panels, design support, technical solutions, and project delivery experience for landmark transparent projects.