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For a short Shanghai stay, combine a waterfront walk with one or two neighborhoods or museums. The city is spread out, and a list of landmarks is more useful when grouped into an achievable route.
Choose between observation decks and waterfront viewpoints based on the view you want, rather than buying every skyline ticket. Keep an indoor alternative for rainy or very hot weather and verify current opening information before travel.
Check each attraction's official ticket page for current opening times and last entry. The Shanghai municipal tourism portal is a starting point; festivals and venue closures can change a day plan.
The Bund, Shanghai's famed waterfront promenade, stretches 1.5km along the west bank of Huangpu River, is known as the “the exotic building clusters of Shanghai”. And it is one of the most popular attractions in Shanghai. As one of the best places to visit in Shanghai, you should not miss it.
Facing the modern skyscrapers Oriental Pearl TV Tower and Jinmao Tower across the river, the Bund is a big stage displays its rich collection of early 20th-century architectures. These buildings were built respectively during the 20s and 40s of the 20th century with different architectural styles but were well harmonized. The buildings are all decorated with floodlights. At night, the Bund is brightly lit, glittering and dazzling to the eye. It is the symbol and mark of Shanghai.
Location: No. 168 Fuyou Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai, China(上海市黄浦区福佑路168号)
How to Get to Yuyaun Garden: Take Subway Line 10 or Line 14 and get off at the Yuyuan Garden Station, then walk to Yuyuan Garden
Located in Huangpu District, the central area of Shanghai, Yuyuan Garden is the only fully restored classical Chinese garden in Shanghai. It was built in 1559 during the Ming Dynasty, as a private garden. As a paragon of the south Chinese landscaping style of the Ming and Qing dynasties, nowadays, it is a must for all visitors to Shanghai.
Although the Garden occupies less than five acres, demonstrates perfectly the sophisticated art of combining several different elements to create a world in miniature – ingeniously mingling pavilions and corridors, small hills and carefully selected and well-placed rocks, lotus ponds, bridges, winding paths, and trees and shrubs.
Location: No. 170 Anyaun Road, Putuo District, Shanghai, China(上海市普陀区安远路170号)
Jade Buddha Temple is a Song-Dynasty-style construction located in downtown Shanghai, which was first built in Jiangwan County in 1882 to worship the 1.9-metre-high white Jade Buddha Statue that carved in Burma. In order to make it convenient for the adherents to visit, it was bodily moved to Shanghai City at the present sire in 1918.
Jade Buddha Temple is one of the Shanghai must-see attractions, and till now, it still be an active one that with 70 resident monks at last count. The most famous thing of Jade Buddha Temple is not the architectural idea which was conveyed in Song Dynasty, the valuable essence lies in the Buddha figures.
Jade Buddha Temple, the Bund, Yuyuan Garden, Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Nanjing Road
Location: No. 1, Century Avenue, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China(上海市浦东新区世纪大道1号)
Located in the Pudong District, Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower is a very popular tourist attraction of the city. Completed in 1995 to a highly innovative design, Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower has become a symbol of excellence in architecture and is a favorite sight for tourists in Shanghai. It have a place in best places to visit in Shanghai.
With a total height of 467.9 meters, facing the European-style architectures on the Bund, the other side of the Huangpu River, the tower is with multi-functions for sightseeing, catering, shopping and amusement. The sightseeing floor is located at 263 m, from where people can have a bird's eye view of the busy and bustling Huangpu River and the Bund. The tower can receive 6,000 visitors everyday.
5.5 km in full length, Nanjing Road enjoys a reputation as “the most bustling commercial street in China”. Actually, it was the earliest commercial street in Shanghai since the city opened to the outside world. Nanjing Road is a must for tourists at home and abroad in best places to visit in Shanghai.
Today, it is an ideal place for shopping, where you can purchase things (home or broad), ranging from the clothes to the watches, from cell phone to jewelry, all the luxurious things as well as elaborate goods. In the day time, the street is crowned with visitors and when the night falls, the colorful neon lights make the street more attractive.
Location: 310 Huangzhao Road, Chuansha County, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China(上海市浦东新区川沙镇黄赵路310号)
Shanghai Disney Resort is the first Disney Resort in mainland China and the second within the whole China region. There is already one in Hong Kong, which opened in 2005. Shanghai Disney Resort is located in Chuanshan New Town, Pudong New District, Shanghai, China. The resort will cover 963 acres in Pudong, Shanghai, approximately 3 times of the size of the Hong Kong Disneyland Park.
Location: 210 Nong of Taikang Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai, China(上海市黄浦区泰康路210弄)
Tianzifang is located in the Lane NO.210, Taikang Road in Shanghai City. It is an arts and crafts enclave that has constructed from a refurbished domestic location in the French Concession area of Shanghai, China. Tianzifang is famous for tiny craft shops, coffee stores, fashionable art galleries and thin alleys. It has become a famous holiday location in Shanghai, and an instance of maintenance of local Shikumen buildings, with a few similarities to Xintiandi. Tianzifang is mostly concealed from the adjoining places, for it developed from the inside of the area outward, although there are today stores on Taikang Lu on its own.
Location: Location: No. 88, Century Avenue, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China(上海市浦东新区世纪大道88号)
The Shanghai Jin Mao Tower has been stood along the Haungpu River since 1999. It is the 8th highest in the world, the 3rd highest in Asia and China according to the date in 2012. It is a comprehensive skyscraper which was started to build in 1994. With about 5 year's process, this splendid architecture totally opened to the public on Aug 28, 1999.
Location: No. 1952, Century Avenue, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China(上海市浦东新区世纪大道1952号)
How to get to Shanghai Museum East by subway:
Take Subway Line 2 and get off at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Station, then get out of the station from Exit 8
Take Subway Line 4 and get off at the Pudianlu Station, then get out of the station from Exit 2
Take Subway Line 6 and get off at the Pudianlu Station, then get out of the station from Exit 1
Shanghai Museum East is located at No. 1952, Century Avenue in Pudong New Area, which focuses on exhibiting ancient Chinese art. There are displays in the Bronze Gallery, the Calligraphy Gallery, the Painting Gallery, the Seal Gallery, the Ceramics Gallery, the Numismatics Gallery, and the Jade Gallery at Shanghai Museum, where you can know about the history of ancient Chinese art. Besides, you can know about the Shanghai culture and Jiangnan culture at other galleries at Shanghai Museum.
Location: 325 of Nanjing West Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai, China(上海市黄浦区南京西路325号)
Ticket: Free
How to Get to Shanghai History Museum: Take Subway Line 1, Line 2 or Line 8 and get off at the People's Square Station
Shanghai History Museum, also known as Shanghai Revolution Museum, is one of the most famous and significant museums in Shanghai. At Shanghai History Museum, you can know about the history and development of Shanghai, especially the history of Shanghai from 1949. Shanghai History Museum has a total collection of about 110,000 pieces in 15 categories: painting, metal, ceramics, crafts, certificates & seals, literature, printing, textiles, stone carvings, coins, photographs, paper-cuts, stamps, records and other miscellaneous items.
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