Best Traditional Chinese Shanghai: Bund + Pudong Skyline + Yu Garden 1559 + Nanjing Road + Xintiandi + Shanghai Tower 632 m & Shanghai Deep Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: China travel | Asia destinations Best Traditional Chinese Shanghai: The Bund 52 Buildings, Pudong Skyline with Shanghai Tower 632 m, Yu Garden 1559 Ming Classical Garden, Nanjing Road 5.5 km, Xintiandi Shikumen and Shanghai Deep Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Shanghai is China's financial capital and the world's fourth-most-visited city, a 26.32-million metro-area giant spread across 6,340 square kilometres of the Yangtze River Delta, and it offers one of travel's most extreme one-hundred-year architectural contrasts: stand on The Bund at sunset, look west, and you see fifty-two stone Art Deco and Beaux-Arts buildings from 1880 to 1937; turn around, look east across the Huangpu River, and you face Pudong with Shanghai Tower (632 metres, second-tallest in the world since 2015), Shanghai World Financial Center (492 metres, 2008), Jin Mao Tower (421 metres, 1999) and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower (468 metres, 1995). The Bund is a free 1.5 kilometre wal...