Shanghai World Financial CenterShanghai World Financial Center · photo: GG001213, CC0

Self-guided walking tour of Shanghai

60 sights · China

Tell us what you like and how much time you have, and you get a walking route past the best sights of Shanghai, with a map and thumbs-up from other visitors. Free, no account needed.

Plan your walk through Shanghai

The route planner itself is in Dutch for now; the map and the route work the same.

What is there to see?

3-hour walk past the highlights of Shanghai

9 stops · 2.5 km · a loop from the centre with time to look around at each stop. Want to go inside somewhere? Set a longer stay in the route planner.

  1. Photo: Baycrest, CC BY-SA 2.5
    🚶 4 min walkPeople's Square
  2. Photo: Pyzhou, GFDL
    🚶 1 min walkShanghai Museum
  3. Photo: Bruno Corpet, CC BY-SA 3.0
    🚶 7 min walkShanghai Grand Theatre
  4. Photo: Baycrest, CC BY-SA 2.5
    🚶 3 min walkTomorrow Square
  5. Photo: Art Museum Photographer, CC BY-SA 3.0
    🚶 3 min walkShanghai Art Museum
  6. 🚶 3 min walkMuseum of Contemporary Art Shanghai
  7. Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0
    🚶 1 min walkPeople's Park
  8. Photo: Baycrest, CC BY-SA 2.5
    🚶 6 min walkShimao International Plaza
  9. Photo: Mätes II, CC BY-SA 3.0
    🚶 3 min walkShanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center
Walk this route (with map)

More well-known sights in Shanghai

  1. Shanghai World Financial Center
  2. Shanghai Tower
  3. Oriental Pearl Tower
  4. Jin Mao Tower
  5. Yu Garden
  6. Saint Ignatius Cathedral
  7. Mercedes-Benz Arena
  8. China Art Museum
  9. Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
  10. Sinar Mas Center
  11. Xiaotaoyuan Mosque
  12. Waibaidu Bridge
  13. Old City of Shanghai
  14. Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum
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