The Bund & East Nanjing Road
Shanghai's front door: the riverside promenade facing the Pudong skyline, and the East Nanjing Road pedestrian street running inland from it.
First-timers: the postcard riverfront, the colonial-era skyline and the neon shopping street, all in one continuous walk.
It is never quiet — this is the most crowded strip in the city, holiday crowd-control queues are real, and restaurants along it price for tourists.
Places here
East Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street
ShoppingThe neon-lit pedestrian shopping street running from People's Square to the Bund — a 1.2 km river of people, department stores and heritage shopfronts. Worth walking once at night for the spectacle, even if you buy nothing.
The Bund
LandmarkShanghai's signature riverside promenade: a 1.5 km sweep of 1920s bank-and-trading-house facades on one side, the full Pudong skyline across the water on the other. It's free, always open, and the single view that explains the whole city.