Shanghai - Featured Destinations

Shanghai Map and Guide

Welcome to this map and guide of Shanghai in China. This map shows a growing collection of 360 panoramas and virtual tours taken around Shanghai by various panoramic photographers. Simply select a pin on the map to begin exploring. View this map as either a street map, terrain map or as a satellite image of India. Select the 'Earth' option to view it using the Google Earth plugin.

About Shanghai

Shanghai is the largest city in China and one of the largest metropolitan areas on earth. It is home to about 20 million people on the mouth of the Yangtze River, a major economic engine in China, and home to the largest container port on earth. Shanghai started out as a small fishing village. Its prominence grew after the 1842 Treaty of Nanking when it opened to foreign trade. Shanghai is also an important tourist destination, bringing millions of visitors a year into China both for the sights of interest within the city itself as well as those nearby. Shanghai also has a large domestic airport taking travellers deeper into China. Naturally, Shanghai has hotels, hostels, appartments and other accommodation to suit all budgets, and is full of restaurants and shops.

Shanghai Highlights

Below are just a few of the attraction highlights in and around Shanghai of interest for the visitor:

• Yuyuan Garden - the largest ancient garden broken into six different areas and buildings built in Ming and Qing styles. The Grand Rockery is world famous, and nearby is the City God Temple of Shanghai. Yuyuan Gardens originated in 1559.
• The Bund - also called 'Waitan' or 'Zongshan Lu', an area on the eastern bank of Huangpu River, rich in architecture from the 1920's. Important buildings here include the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation former HQ, Peace Hotel and Bank of China and The Bund also contains a growing number of boutique shops.
• Pudong - full of 20th century sky scrapers, modern architecture, the People's Square and fantastic shopping along Nanjing Road.
• Jade Temple - the most famous Buddhist temple in Shanghai, it contains tow White Jade Buddhas were brought here from Burma in the nineteenth century and impressive images of the Heavenly Kings.
• Longhua Gongyuan Park - contains a seven-story pagoda temple built in 977.
• Shanghai Museum - reputedly one of the best museums in China, located on the south side of People's Square.

Near to Shanghai

• Confucius Temple of Jiading Description - 13th century in Jiading about 19km northwest of Shanghai
• Dianshan Hu Lake - covering an area of 60sq.km stretching about 31 miles west of Shanghai
• Xingshengjiano si Ta Pagoda (Four-cornered Pagoda Description) - known locally as Fang Ta this 9-storey pagoda dates from the 11th century. It stands in Songjiang, some 30km southwest of Shanghai
• Garden of Natural Beauty Description - known locally as Guyi Yuan, this garden covers 16 acres and was laid out in the 16th century in Nanxiang, a small village 8km northwest of Shanghai

Further Afield

• Huangshan Mountain - Famous for dramatic, jagged peaks, 'sea of clouds' and stunning sunsets. Includes Yellow Mountain, about 400km west of Shanghai.

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