Shanghai — Sights
Yesterday's Bund and tomorrow's skyline, one river apart.
- The Bund — Century-old granite banks behind you, glass towers across the river
- Shanghai Tower – Top of Shanghai Observatory — Floor 118, 546 m up; go before sunset for day, dusk and night
- Yu Garden — Ming garden folding ponds, rockeries and a dragon wall into one plot
- East Nanjing Road — Neon at night and queues for hot pork mooncakes at old food halls
- Wukang Road, Wukang Mansion & Anfu Road — Ship-prow Wukang Mansion, then a stroll under plane trees
- Tianzifang — A lane maze of workshops, tea shops and bars under tangled wires
- Xintiandi — Shikumen houses refitted as wine bars; best on a full terrace at night
- Shanghai Museum East — Free museum where 3,000-year-old bronzes glow in the half-dark
- Jing'an Temple — Gold roofs between luxury malls; toss coins at the bronze burner
- Huangpu River Public Ferry — ¥2 commuter boat: ten minutes mid-river between both skylines
- Zhujiajiao Water Town — Rowboats under a five-arch Ming bridge, pork knuckle on every corner
- West Bund & Long Museum — Coal wharves turned gallery row; stay on the river path for sunset
- Columbia Circle — A 1920s club pool ringed by white arches, now with books and cafés
- Former Site of the Korean Provisional Government — The lane house where Korea's government-in-exile worked, 1926–32
- Lu Xun Park (old Hongkou Park) & Yun Bong-gil Memorial — Where Yun Bong-gil struck in 1932, now a plum grove and park life
- Jade Buddha Temple — Yellow-walled working temple with a Burmese white-jade Buddha
- 1933 Old Millfun — A 1930s slaughterhouse turned concrete maze of ramps and bridges
- M50 Creative Park (50 Moganshan Road) — Free galleries and studios in a riverside 1930s textile mill
- Zhangyuan & West Nanjing Road — Restored shikumen lanes full of flagship stores and pop-ups
- Shanghai Natural History Museum — Dinosaurs, a 24 m whale and half a day of happy kids
- Xujiahui Cathedral & Xujiahui Library — Red-brick twin spires among glass towers, with a grand library next door
- Sinan Mansions & Fuxing Park — 1920s garden villas under plane trees, and a French park that dances at dawn
- Power Station of Art (PSA) — A power plant with a 165 m chimney, now home of the Shanghai Biennale
- People's Square & People's Park — The old racecourse at the city's heart, with a weekend marriage market
- The Stage Observation Deck & North Bund — An open-air deck on a 320 m helipad facing the Bund and Lujiazui
- Oriental Pearl Tower — Stand on a glass floor 259 m up inside Shanghai's pink-ball TV tower
- Jin Mao Tower 88th-Floor Observatory — Look the Oriental Pearl in the eye from 340 m, then down a 30-storey atrium
- Lujiazui Circular Skywalk & Binjiang Avenue — A free ring-shaped footbridge that fits all three supertalls in one frame
- Huangpu River Night Cruise (Shiliupu Wharf) — Bund on one side, Lujiazui on the other, both lit up from the water
- ERA – Intersection of Time 2 (Shanghai Circus World) — Acrobatics capped by motorbikes criss-crossing inside a steel globe
- Shanghai Disneyland & Disneytown — Zootopia land, TRON, and fireworks over the castle to close the night
- LEGOLAND Shanghai Resort — A LEGO water town and a brick-built Bund, sized for kids aged 3–11
- Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park — An ocean theme park with an orca show and swimming polar bears
- Shanghai Ocean Aquarium — Ride a moving walkway through a 155 m shark tunnel beside the Pearl
- Museum of Art Pudong (MAP) — Jean Nouvel's white museum, with the Bund framed in its glass hall
- Shanghai Astronomy Museum — Walk through a full-size space station and a black-hole corridor
- Qibao Ancient Town — A canal town you reach by metro, with snack alleys over stone bridges
- Xinchang Ancient Town — A quiet salt-merchant town with the teahouse from 'Lust, Caution'