Shanghai Trip Overview
This tour provides a great opportunity to explore must-see attractions and historical streets. With a private guide, we will learn about culture and history of Shanghai and enjoy scenery along the Huangpu River. The itinerary includes Fuxing Park, Sun Yat-sen’s Former Residence, Sinan Mansions, Jing’an Temple, Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre, China Art Museum, Duolun Road, Luxun Park and the Bund. According to your preference, your guide will recommend some delicious local foods to eat.
1. Get in touch with the everyday people and experience local lifestyle in Fuxing Park
2. Admire SHIKUMEN style old houses and bronze statues of the eminent writers along Duolun Road
3. Wander in the Bund to see the 26 various buildings of different architectural styles and modern skyscrapers
4. Enjoy the masterpieces of China’s modern and contemporary artists at China Art Museum
5. Make the most of limited time with convenient hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional Info
Duration: 7 to 8 hours
Starts: Shanghai, China
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Shanghai, Shanghai, China
This tour provides a great opportunity to explore must-see attractions and historical streets. With a private guide, we will learn about culture and history of Shanghai and enjoy scenery along the Huangpu River. The itinerary includes Fuxing Park, Sun Yat-sen’s Former Residence, Sinan Mansions, Jing’an Temple, Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre, China Art Museum, Duolun Road, Luxun Park and the Bund. According to your preference, your guide will recommend some delicious local foods to eat.
1. Get in touch with the everyday people and experience local lifestyle in Fuxing Park
2. Admire SHIKUMEN style old houses and bronze statues of the eminent writers along Duolun Road
3. Wander in the Bund to see the 26 various buildings of different architectural styles and modern skyscrapers
4. Enjoy the masterpieces of China’s modern and contemporary artists at China Art Museum
5. Make the most of limited time with convenient hotel pickup and drop-off
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Fuxing Park, No.2 Gaolan Road, Shanghai China
Your tour guide will meet you at your hotel at 09:00 a.m.. Then, we will transfer to Fuxing Park and start the highlight tour.
Fuxing Park, also called Gujiazhai Park. It is a unique park in Shanghai that maintains the French classic style, which is characterized by plaids and patterns. Now stays popular both for senior’s exercises in the morning. We will experience the colorful life of retirees.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Shanghai Museum of Sun Yat-sen’s Former Residence, No.7 Xiangshan Road, Shanghai China
The Former Residence of Sun Yat-sen is a two-storey European-style building. Sun Yat-sen, also named Sun Wen, is the great forerunner of the Chinese democratic revolution, the founder of the Republic of China and the respected contributor to Chinese modern history.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Sinan Mansions, Lane507 Fuxing Middle Road, Shanghai 200000 China
As a nice leisure and entertainment place, Sinan Road is a famous French-style road in Former French Concession Shanghai. There are about twenty garden houses on both sides of the street that are representative of almost all the residential styles of Shanghai in the early 20th century. There are boutique hotels, apartment hotels and enterprise mansions. Moreover, there are a variety of restaurants, bars, coffee houses, tea houses, as well as a large number of clubs, convention centers, showrooms, cultural salons, designer shops and recreational parks. Stroll down this clean and romantic one-way street and enjoy the shade of the plane trees on both sides of the road. You can feel the peace in the middle of the crowded Shanghai.
Then, we will visit Jing’an Temple.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Jing’an Temple, Jing’an Temple, Shanghai
Jing’an Temple is one of the most famous temples in Shanghai which is located at West Nanjing Road, the flourishing downtown area of Shanghai.
Jing’an Temple is a good place to escape the hustle and bustle of crowds in downtown Shanghai. In the meantime, you can enjoy the marvellous painting and calligraphy by Yangzhou’s Eight Eccentric Painters in the Exhibition Hall of Buddhist Relics. An important display of this temple is the bronze bell which was made in the Ming Dynasty.
Then, we will transfer to Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre and appreciate original propaganda posters from the 1940s to 1990s.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre, 726 Yan An Xi Rd Rm K 7F East Tower, Hua Min Han Zhen International, Shanghai 200050 China
This is a private museum dedicated to collecting and displaying posters. It contains over 6,000 collections of original propaganda posters from the 1940s to 1990s. It covers chairman Mao’s time and shows the political movements that were taking place during the New China era. It was founded by Mr. Yang Pei Ming who started collecting the posters as a hobby in 1995.
Then, we will transfer to the site of the Shanghai Expo 2010, a park that offers a variety of exhibits about Chinese culture.
According to your preference, your guide will recommend a place to eat, which could be a small local eatery or elegant cuisine restaurant.
In the afternoon, we will visit China Art Museum to enjoy the masterpieces of China’s modern and contemporary artists.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: China Art Museum, No.161 Shangnan Road, Shanghai China
The museum was transformed from the China Pavilion of the Expo 2010 Shanghai, an upside-down red pyramid. A visit is worth it just for the extravagant building and its vistas of the city. It is dedicated to demonstrate the masterpieces of a number of China’s modern and contemporary artists. Works on display span modern and contemporary periods, and there are numerous temporary exhibitions, including touring shows from abroad.
The stunning highlight of the museum is the multimedia replica of the famous painting ‘Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival one thousand years ago, which vividly shows the life of all social sectors at that time.
Then, we will walk along Duolun Road to visit life size bronze statues of the eminent writers and Luxun Park.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Shanghai Duolun Road Cultural Celebrities Street, Duolun Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai 200081 China
Duolun Road, previously known as Darroch Road after a British missionary, is a tiny part of Shanghai that will transport you to a bygone era when Chinese literati and social elites were fashionable and making waves in the country’s fabric in their many ways. This is a pedestrian street today and was home to many famous writers, artists, poets and social workersthrough the 1900s. The likes of Ding Ling, Rou Shi, Mao Dun and many others lived in different parts of this street and area.
Hong De Tang Church
This church is a grand structure on this street. Being a rare architectural structure, maybe the only one of its kind in the city, this attracts lots of attention from passers-by. The Christian church is built with Chinese architectural styles. If you are lucky, you may catch a wedding shoot underway here.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Lu Xun Memorial and Gravesite, No.2288 Sichuan North Road, Shanghai 200000 China
It Originally named Hongkou Park. 1956 is Luxuns 75th birthday, and it is also the memorial day of Luxuns 20th years death. So the goverment moved Luxuns tomb here and set a statue in memory of Luxun. The Luxun Memorial Hall was set in the same year. All these made the park become a place of memory.
The park is renamed because of the Luxun Memorial Hall and Luxun Tomb. The area Luxun Tomb is about 1600 square meters. There are words written by Mao Zedong on the tombstone: the tomb of Luxun. There stands a bronze statue of Luxun in the grass in front of the tomb. It makes all the people feel respectful.
Then, we will transfer to the Bund and admire the 26 various buildings of different architectural styles along the Bund.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: The Bund, The Bund, Shanghai
The Bund is a famous waterfront on the west bank of Huangpu River and regarded as the symbol of Shanghai. Here, the charm of Shanghai as a bustling metropolis combining the century-old history and flourishing future is fully presented, making the Bund Shanghai a must-see attraction. We will see the 26 various buildings of different architectural styles at the Bund. Such as Peace Hotel(Heping Fandian), Shanghai Customs House and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank. We will appreciate skyscrapers across the Huangpu River.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: The Bund City Sculptures, Jinling Dong Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai 200001 China
We will see the Bund City Sculptures, Monument to the People’s Heroes, Huangpu Park and Waibaidu Bridge.
Afterwards, enjoy comfortable transfer back to your hotel. Wrap your memories and say good-bye in your hotel.
Duration: 30 minutes
