It is said that if you have not visiting the Chenghuang Temper during your Shanghai tour, you cannot really go to the great Shanghai, which means that the Old Chenghuang Temple has great status and influence in Shanghai. The Shanghai Chenghuang Temple in generally refers to the one in the Huangpu District, which called the “ Yuyuan Garden” in scenic spots, that is the original county Chenghuang temple in Shanghai. It is a famous Jiangnan classical garden and a national key cultural relics protection unit. The Yuyuan Garden especially gains popularity to the Chenghuang Temper.

Chenghuang Temple

Chenghuang Temple, being a famous temple in Shanghai with a long history, has attracted quite a lot of tourists come here to travel every year. The snacks there also are famous in China because of the popularity of the Chenghuang Temple. Located in the prosperous city, the Chenghuang Temple looks as an old person whose age is 100 years to stare at the Shanghai prosperity and development, up and down. When traveling there, just make a wish in front of the Buddha sincerely and maybe it will come true one day.

Chenghuang Temple

The snacks in Shanghai Chenghuang Temple is very delicious and it is too numerous to mention one by one. You cannot catch your eyes after entering into it. There are steamed bun stuffed with barbecued roast pork, Xiaolongbao, Rice with Stewed Chicken Leg, Noodles with pork chop, shepherd’s-purse wonton, sweet potato gruel, fried bread stick, fish ball soup, fried strong-smelling fermented bean curd, Ningbo dumpling, steamed crab meat dumplings, lotus root filled with sticky rice, crab roe soup dumplings and all kinds of cakes which will fully satisfy your appetite.

Travel information: 1) Ticket price: 10Yuan/adult; 2) Opening time: 8:30 a.m.-16:30p.m. 3) Best time to visit: all the year round; 4) Playing time suggestion: 2 -3 hours; 4) Ways to go there: take the city public buses no. 11, 24, 33, 55, 64, 66, 220, 801, 802, 926, 934; take the tunnel line 8 and 9 or take the metro line 10 to the Yuyuan Garden station.

Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall

Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall was completed in the beginning of 2000 and opening to the public in 25th February 2000. It is an AAAA level attraction whose floor space is 4000 square meters, building area 20,670 square meters and building height 43.3 meters and a more than one hundred meters long residents Leisure Street.

The modeling design of the main body of the pavilion building gets its inspiration from the gates of traditional Chinese form, and the structure schema which is symmetrical to center cleverly echo with the Chinese traditional aesthetics thought and modern sense that intelligently reflects the harmonious aesthetic feeling in the same building. Its top implies the blooming Shanghai city flower—Michelin Alba. Besides, the reticular structure for the building integrates the blue sky and the white clouds together. The building won the 2000 Shanghai “white magnolia prize” and national building highest honor award “Luban” award.

Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall

Features of the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall mainly are its professionalism, infotainment enjoyment and a combination of history and the future, which gives a person with infinite daydream. Majestic momentum, the decoration style of the big, modern first-class high-tech means of the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall vividly deduces the vicissitudes of life change there and shows the beautiful today in Shanghai and the bright prospects for the future. The Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall plays an important role on displaying the city theme, spreading the urban culture, promoting the spiritual civilization, showing the social effect and looking forward to the future development.

Travel information: 1) Opening time: 9:00 a.m. -17: 00 p.m. everyday from Tuesday to Sunday and closed on Monday; 2) Ticket price: 30 RMB/adult; 3) Ways to go there: take the Metro line 1, 2, 8 and the city buses no. 49, 123, 46 and also take the tunnel line 6.

Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple

Located in the Anyuan road in Shanghai city, the Jade Buddha Temple is Buddhist temple not only famous in Shanghai, but also well known at home and abroad. As one of the ten scenic spots of Shanghai tourism and though it located in the heart of the city, it is described as a piece of pure land in the downtown.

Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple

Jade Buddha Temple in Shanghai nowadays is divided into two main parts: the front yard and back yard. The front yard, that is the temple site of the Jade Buddha Temple. Its axis is followed by large screen wall, the Tianwang Hall, Mahavira Hall, Prajnaparamita Zhangs Room (floor upstairs for jade Buddha and scripture-stored tower). East of the Dongshan gate is followed by Shanghai Buddhist Association, Guanyin Hall, Shanghai Institute of Buddhist Studies, Meditation Room, Wuguan Hall and Plain Zhai Department; west of the Xishan Gate are Monastic Reception, Temple Business Office, and storeroom, Copper Buddha Hall, Mahaparinirvana Temple Guest Room and Lezhi Hall. Its back yard, that is the original Liqun hospital site purchased in 2000, has built multi-functional group of buildings, composing of functional lecture hall, guest room, office area, teaching area and dormitory area. Walking inside the Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple, you will find that there is a cultural relics room, which is in possession of those precious cultural relics of the northern Wei, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple is famous for consecrating jade Buddha. The jade Buddha statue in the jade Buddha floor is the temple treasure. The Buddha statue is characterized by exquisite sculpture, exquisite jade texture, glistening thoroughly tick, round and smooth, fluent and beautiful lines, harmony and symmetry proportion of every parts. The whole figure of Buddha looks peaceful, quiet, floats and feminine look, which makes the person look after mind suddenly, having the feeling of super take off all of dust.

Shanghai Museum

Located in the south side of the people’s square in Shanghai city center, the Shanghai Museum is one of the four China great museums together with the Beijing Museum, Xi’an Museum and Nanjing Museum. Featuring the display area of 2800 square meters, the Shanghai Museum has set 12 special showrooms, ethnic crafts pavilion hall, ancient Chinese bronze pavilion hall, China’s Ming and Qing furniture hall etc. There are 120,000 pieces of precious relics including bronze ware, ceramics, calligraphy, painting, jade teeth, bamboo and wood lacquer, oracle, ethnic crafts, among which the bronze ware, ceramics, calligraphy and paintings are its characteristics.

Opened in the 12th October 1996, the Shanghai Museum covers a total building area of 39,200 square meters with the height of 29.5 meters. Its dome square base which symbolizes orbicular sky and rectangular earth constitutes the new outstanding visual effect there. The whole architecture skillfully fuses the traditional culture with the spirit of the age together to make it stand outstandingly among all the museums in the world. It is a famous scenic spot in Shanghai worthy your visit during your tour there.

Shanghai Museum

The new Shanghai Museum has eleven specific pavilions and three exhibition halls. It is greeting all the guests with its new look now. There are Chinese bronze showroom, Chinese ceramics showroom, Chinese painting gallery showroom and Ancient Chinese sculpture gallery showroom. The Shanghai museum collection bronze exhibition, six-thousand China art exhibition, Shanghai treasure porcelain museum exhibition, Ming-and-Qing- Dynasty calligraphy exhibition, Yangzhou eight eccentrics exhibition etc have exhibited in Hong Kong , Japan and America.

Travel tips: 1) Opening time: 9:00 a.m. -17:00 p.m. 2) Ticket price: Free; 3) Ideal time to visit: all the year round especially the autumn time and the New Year’s time; 4) Playing time suggestion: 4 hours; 5) Ways to go there: Take the city public buses No. 454,112,123,71,934,145,46,167 and 18; or take the No. 6 tunnel; subway line 1, 2, and 8 to the People’s Square Station.

JinMaoTower

Located in the Pudong new area in Shanghai lujiazui finance &trade zone in prime locations with the famous bund scenic spot on the other side of the Bund, the Jinmao Tower is a famous AAAA level attraction in China and also a landmark building in Shanghai with its total 88 floors.

The 88-stories Jin Mao Tower, whose height is 340.1 meters and area is 1,520 square meters, is the highest and biggest tourist hall in China mainland and it has been recorded into the Shanghai great world Guinness record. The sightseeing hall is decorated luxury, which completely adopted import natural marbles whose wall thickness of the stone is only 3 mm. You can have a broad and distant view from the glasses wall screen to enjoy a birds’ eyes view of the urban scenery on both sides of the Huangpu River and the grandeur of the Yangtze estuary. From there, you can also overlook the atrium of the Jinmao Hyatt Hotel which is called the spatio-temporal tunnel by the architects. Besides, you can enjoy the wonderful sunrise and sunset, and take a friendly handshake with the white rapidly changing cloud in blue sky. Those two express lifts whose moving speed at 9.1 meters/second called “The Clumsy” take you to the 88-stories sightseeing hall with only 45 seconds from the underground 1st floor, which will shock you really!

JinMaoTower

Being the combination of modern office building, luxury five-star hotel, business conference, high-end banquet, sightseeing, entertainment and market, the 88-stories Jin Mao Tower is an intelligent skyscraper that integrates profound and rich cultural connotation of the Chinese nations and also adopts western architectural art. It has become the most convenient, flexible and comfortable place in Shanghai today for security office, finance, commerce, entertainment and catering.

Travel information: 1) Ticket price: 120 Yuan/adult; 2) Opening time: 8:30 a.m. -22:00 p.m. 3) Best time to visit: all the year round; 4) Duration: 2 hours; 5) How to go there: Take the city public lines: No. 81, 82, 85, 795, 996, 971, 774, 961, 583, 798, 799, 870, 971 and 992 to the Lujiazui stop.

Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower

With the total height of 467.9 meters, the Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower is located in the Lujiazui in Pudong area of Shanghai city, adjacent to the Huangpu river and on the other side of the Bund. Being the Shanghai international press center, the Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower is the No.4 high tower in Asia and No.6 in the world,which is just behind the Burj Khalifa in United Arab Emirates ( 828 meters), the Tokyo Sky Tree TV Tower in Japan (634 meters), Guangzhou New TV Tower( 600 meters), the CN Tower in Canada ( 553.3 meters) and Ostankino Tower in Canada ( 540.1 meters). It is a famous attraction in Shanghai worthy your visit.

Being the landmark building of the Shanghai Bund, the Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower is also one tour degrees higher sights in Lujiazui financial center. You can have a birds’ eyes view of the Bund, whose distance is the Shanghai Pudong and its foot is the flowing Huangpu river. It stands till there, no matter how many people go back and forth, witnessing the rise and fall of various history since the reform and opening up development in Shanghai.

Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower

The world-famous Oriental pearl air revolving restaurant is located in the Oriental pearl tower, 267 meters on the sphere. It enjoys high reputation proudly at the top of the Shanghai with its unique landscape advantage, outstanding diet culture and feel at home in the warm service. As Asia’s highest revolving restaurant, it covers an area of 1,500 square meters to accommodate 350 guests for dinner. This restaurant at the same time provides more luxurious package and the combination of Chinese and western buffet, hundreds kinds of delicacies, uninterrupted supply for visitors to share delicious food and appreciate beauty.

Travel information: 1) Opening time: 8:00 a.m.-18:00 p.m. 2) Ticket price: 160 RMB/adult; 3) Best time to visit: all the year round and especially those sunny day when you can overlooking the beautiful sights there; 4) Ways to get there: Take the travel line no. 3, city buses no.81, 82, 85, 870, 872. 5) Visiting suggestion: 2 hours.

Zhujiajiao ancient water town, located in the middle-south part of the Qingpu area close to the Dianshan lake scenic area, faces the dividing line of the West Da Ying and city surrounded highway in its east and is close to Dianshan Lake with the grand view garden scenic spot on the other side of the lake in its west, neighbors the Shen Xiang town in its south, borders the Diandong of the Kunshan city in Jiangsu in its north. It is 6 kilometers away from the Qingpu Town in its south and 48 kilometers away from the Shanghai city center. It is a famous ancient town in Shanghai which has attracted numerous travelers from home and abroad.

Zhujiajiao Water Town

Covering an area of 54.5 square kilometers and having a long history, the Zhujiajiao water town features rich travel resources. It has been honored as “Jiangnan Pearl”, “Shanghai Venice”, “HuJiao Hollywood” and listed as one of the four big historical cultural famous town in Shanghai and AAAA level scenic spot in China. Walking along the Zhujiajiao Water Town, you can see winding water pass through the classic bridges, which are characterized by strong poetic atmosphere and elegance. The residential homestead was built in accordance with the water with the building style of Ming and Qing Dynasties, graceful and spectacular.

Zhujiajiao Water Town

Charming natural scenery in famous zhujiajiao ancient town is undoubtedly a mountain called Dinashan and a lake called Dianshan Lake, which shows the Jiangnan water town’s features. There are also some other famous ancient town characteristic humanities landscape, including bridge, street, temple, hall, gardens, bay, lanes. Moreover, it is famous for its leisure facilities at home and abroad and its one line street—North Avenue, is the first street that has been best preserved among the Ming and Qing buildings in the outskirts of Shanghai.

Zhujiajiao Water Town

Travel information: 1) Opening time: 24 hours; 2) Ticket price: 60 RMB/adult; 3) Visiting time suggestion: 3 hours; 4) Best time to visit: Spring time and autumn time as the weather at that time is moderate and the scenery is beautiful which is appropriate for appreciating the water and customs there.

Located in the Shanghai center city, the Xintiandi is a urban tourist attractions showing the Shanghai historical and cultural view. It is a famous pedestrian street reformed on the basis of the unique shikumen architecture of old Shanghai area, featuring the combination of catering, business, entertainment and culture. It makes the fundamental key with fusion of Chinese and western, old and new combination to fuse the Shanghai traditional shikumen lanes with new buildings full of contemporary feeling together.

Xintiandi

The Xintiandi nowadays is Shanghai’s new landmark, it is the best place to enjoy Shanghai history and culture and modern life form. Covering an area of 30,000 square meters, its Shikumen buildings with sixty thousand square meters building area keeps the bricks and tiles at that time, which makes travelers there enter into As if into the time tunnel and back in the 1920s. However, the inner compound of every building is tailor-made according to the way of life, modern city life rhythm and emotional world of the modern city people in 21 century, being the international galleries, boutiques, theme restaurants, cafe and bar.

Xintiandi

Outside the door is the amorous feelings of shikumen lanes, inside the door however is completely the modern way of life, just one step beyond, makes you feel like across the universe of time. Colorful street performances, and innovating fashionable activities bring new rich move feeling of modern fashion style to become the leader of modern trend. The Xintiandi in Shanghai has successfully rewrote the history of shikumen and injected new vitality to the shikumen that has been the historical relics.

Xintiandi

In daytime, you will see a lot of Chinese and Foreign tourists go to xintiandi for sightseeing and photo-taking, at night, here is filled with romantic European charm. Because of the outline of history and culture and the modernization of internal space and also the international management content, the Xintiandi makes middle aged and elderly people recollects the good old days there, the young people feel it fashionable, the foreigners feel it “Chinese” and the Chinese feel it foreign. It has been a best choice for leisure time there.

The Bund

Located in the bank of the Huangpu River in the Huangpu area of the Shanghai city, the Bund is the attractive sightseeing in Shanghai, with its surrounding Landmark landscape including the Oriental Pearl Tower, Jin Mao Tower etc. in the other side of the Huangpu River, which makes it the must-see and must-arrive scenic spot for every travelers there.

The Bund

Featuring the total length of 1.5 kilometers, with its south starting from the Yanan east road, north to the Garden Bridge of Shanghai in the Suzhou River, east facing the Huangpu River and west gathering the World Financial Center and Foreign Trade Agency in the old Shanghai period which are made up with 52 different style of the classical revival buildings characterized by Gothic, Romanesque, Baroque, Chinese and western style, the Bund is called the Universal Expo of Architectures. It has been changing a lot because of those new-built skyscrapers in its back: the famous Bank of China Tower, Peace Hotel, Custom House, HSBC Building there recreates the “Far East Former Wall Street”. Though those buildings were not designed by the same architect, nor designed in the same period, their architectural color is basic unity, and the overall contour processing astonishing coordination. No matter you appreciate them from a long distance or walking along them, you can sense the energetic and vigorous, natural and graceful and showy momentum there.

The Bund

The streetscape made up by the bund river, long beach, green belts and the grandeur of the buildings is the most characteristics of the landscape in Shanghai. It has been listed as one of the ten now scenery in 90s in the year of 1995. The Bund, in the morning is the best place for people’s fitness, in the daytime, is the busy tourist attraction, at night, is the heaven and earth for couples in love.

Travel information: 1)Opening time: 24 hours; 2)Ticket price: free; 3)Ways to got there: take the No. 868, 921, 37, 55, 65, 33 and 123 city public buses; 4) Best time to visit: spring time and autumn time, March to May and September to October. 5) Duration suggestion: 1 hour.

Yuyuan Garden

Being a famous attraction in Shanghai, the Yuyuan garden is near the Fuyou road in its north, Anren road in its east and also links together with the Old Chenghuang Temple and Yuyuan Tourist Mart in its southwest. There are so many ancient buildings and architectures inside it including pavilions, rockeries and ponds, which are characterized by exquisite design, delicate overall arrangement, quiet and beautiful style and dainty and exquisite, reflecting the southern landscape architectural art style of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Located in the Huangpu area, the Yuyuan Garden is the private garden during the Ming Dynasty built in 1559, which fully demonstrates the style of Chinese classical garden architecture and design. It is a a pearl in jiangnan gardens and has been place of sightseeing for numerous travelers from home and abroad. It was open to public in the year of 1961.

Yuyuan Garden

Enjoying the reputation of “ City Forest”, and also having the legend of “ Under a Famous in Southeast China:, the Yuyuan Garden is Shanghai’s famous jiangnan classical gardens featuring 400 years history and it has been the national key cultural relics protection units. The Yuyuan Garden what we called nowadays, generally include several busy streets, and the symbol of the Yuyuan Garden: Bridge of Nine Turnings, Mid-Lake Pavilion, Chenghuang Temple etc. There are many famous restaurants nearby, including Nanxiang Steamed Bun Restaurant which is famous for the small steamed bun and Shanghai old restaurant and so on.

Travel tips: 1) Opening time: 9:00 a.m.-17:00 p.m. 2) Ticket price: 40 RMB/adult in the peak season during 1st April to 30th August and 1st September to 30th November and 30 RMB/ adult in the slack season. 3) Best time to visit: spring time as you can view the beauty of the flowers in full bloom. 4) Playing time suggestion: 2-3 hours. 5) How to get there: take the No. 11, 26, 64, 66, 920, 926, 929 and 930 city public buses. 6) Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival time: 18:00-22:00 for every night during lunar New Year’s Day to the eighteenth day.