Shanghai Travel Guide

 79 Reviews  The Bund is one of the most popular tourist attractions in China. Most visitors come here during evening as it has the most amazing light shows to highlight the buildings of Pudong, including the Pearl Tower, Jinmao Building and etc. Those colorful riverboats cruising the Hangpu river makes the... 

 61 Reviews  Take an elevator up to the Oriental Pearl Tower to get a fantastic view of Shanghai and Pudong. There are actually three levels (spheres) you can visit -- at heights of 90 m, 263 m, and 350 m. One of the levels has a glass floor, where you can look directly beneath your feet to the street below. A... 

 25 Reviews  According to the tour guide, the jade to make the Jade Buddha were brought from Myanmar. Many tourists visited this temple. Many local citizen came here to do their worshipping too. After the worshipping, they burn the josspaper into a furnance placed at openair area. 

 56 Reviews  These gardens were created in 1559 during the Ming Dynasty. They aren’t like our idea of a garden with lawns and flowers. A classical Chinese garden has pavilions, fountains and ponds, arched bridges, and lots of rock. A little pavilion on a tiny hill was the highest point in Shanghai, which is... 

 33 Reviews  Shanghai Arts and Crafts Museum is located at 79 Fenyang Road, in French Concession of Luwan district. It is also known as "Garden Building" and some even call it "The Small White House" because it looks similar to the White House in D.C. It was constructed in 1905. This building has a model of... 

 16 Reviews  The Jin Mao Tower (literally "Golden Prosperity Building"), built in 1998, is an 88-story landmark skyscraper in Pudong. Until 2007 it was the tallest building in China, the fifth tallest in the world by roof height and the seventh tallest by pinnacle height at 421 m / 1,380 ft. The building's... 

 11 Reviews  Despite rapid changes, you can still find traditional ways of life, shikumen homes, old lane homes, small noodle shops and all variety of commerce and action. Take some time to get out and about in the older neighborhoods of the old town area, and throughout places like the Former French Concession.... 

 8 Reviews  The French Concession Villa which is now used as the Arts & Crafts Museum has many rooms reflecting the early 20th century architecture. The villa was built in 1905 and for those times the bathroom was huge. However what took my notice was the elaborate shower, never have I seen anything like it. 

 14 Reviews  After dark, take a cruise on the Huangpu River, where you can take in the beautiful sight of Shanghai and Pudong at night. The lights from the tall skyscrapers in Pudong as well as those from the Bund are especially amazing. A romantic experience! There are numerous tour boat companies, offering... 

 6 Reviews  The JingAn Temple was originally built in 247 A.D., but it has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. It was last torn down during the Cultural Revolution, and then rebuilt about 1980. It is a functioning Buddhist temple, and it was full of worshipers while we were there. It is open from 7:30... 

 15 Reviews  The world trade building is the second tallest building in Shanghai and third in the world. Everyone who sees it feels that it reminds them of something. Whenever someone suggests bottle opener they say, yes, that's it! Well the new building going up next to it looks like a bottle. Now there is a... 

 34 Reviews  This is one of Chinas top museums. It has collections spanning more than 5000 years of art and history, from Neolithic times to the 19th Century. There are collections in Bronze, Stone, Jade, porcelin, etc. Admission is free and there is an extensive book shop and gift shop on the premises. In... 

 10 Reviews  The City God Temple is an interesting Daoist temple located next to the Yuyan Garden and Shanghai's old city retail complex. The temple originally dates back to around 1400. It was closed during the Cultural Revolution, reopened in the 1990s, and then renovated in 2006. It is now open to the public,... 

 12 Reviews  The Urban Planning Museum is a fun smaller museum located in Renmin Square. Its exhibits focus on Shanghai's buildings and infrastructure, including their history. The highlight of the museum is a large scale model of the city in which you can see every building, including the ones that are under... 

 13 Reviews  dont forget to reserve, it's hard to get a table in there...the dumplings are outstanding, you will not find better ones. also, you can watch them being made by hand...don't miss it. on the upper stairs you can watch them making these dumplings 

 11 Reviews  This larger restaurant branch is fantastic with formal dinning, great service, relaxed, clean, tidy, pleasantly decorated with hardly an empty table. If you get yourslf a private room you will have your own balcony.....ya! The food is very Shanghainese with some great award winning dishes. Crab,... 

 25 Reviews  the view of the ultramodern district of shanghai! Shanghai is home to more than 4,000 buildings, but it is the Huangpu's east-bank development, Pudong, that is the star of the Show in Shanghai. In 1990, this area was still marshy farmland but now in 2009 or 19 years later, Pudong has become a New...