Yu Garden & the Old City
The round old walled city south of the Bund: Yu Garden, the City God Temple, and the bazaar quarter that grew up around them.
The classical-China fix: a Ming-dynasty garden, a working Taoist temple and lane-house streets inside the round old walled city, a 15-minute walk south of the Bund.
Peak tourist-trap density — the bazaar around the garden is a themed shopping mall with tourist pricing; know what you are queueing for before you queue.
Places here
Shanghai City God Temple
TempleThe working Taoist temple at the heart of the old town, dedicated to Shanghai's city gods. Small, incense-filled and genuinely active — a 30-minute visit that anchors the Yuyuan bazaar area, whose street name (城隍庙) locals use for the whole neighborhood.
Yu Garden
GardenA dense Ming-dynasty classical garden of rockeries, ponds and zigzag corridors hidden inside the old walled town — the ticketed garden itself, not to be confused with the free shopping bazaar that surrounds it and borrows its name.