Famous Neighborhoods & Spots

Shanghai's mile-long Huangpu riverfront promenade, lined with 1920s-30s colonial-era banks and hotels facing the futuristic Pudong skyline directly across the water.

A maze of Shikumen (stone-gate house) lane houses in the former French Concession, packed with independent boutiques, galleries, cafes, and bars down narrow alleyways.

An upscale pedestrian district of renovated Shikumen lane houses turned into boutiques and restaurants, built around the Site of the First CPC National Congress.

The former French Concession's leafy, plane-tree-lined streets, centered on curved Wukang Road and its landmark 1924 Normandie Apartments, dense with old villas and cafes.

Mainland China's busiest shopping street lit up after dark, its neon signs and LED billboards drawing huge nightly crowds along the pedestrian stretch to the Bund.