Shanghai Detour is a bilingual orientation tool. It offers a city map, provides an extended overview of commercial galleries, museums, non-profit showrooms and independent exhibitions; it informs visitors about the program and additionally includes a comprehensive listing of upcoming exhibition opening events.

One-stop shopping that includes fabrics for all styles, purposes, and occasions. You can find silks (Chinese, Shantung, and Thai), linen, leather, cashmere, wool, and lace.  You can also get anything made by skillful tailors. Open Daily 10am – 6pm

Xintiandi is a car-free shopping, eating and entertainment district.  Most of the cafes and restaurants feature both indoor and outdoor seating.  It is composed of an area of restored traditional shikumen (“stone gate”) houses on narrow alleys, some adjoining houses which now serve as retail space.

Taikang Lu is an arts and crafts enclave that has risen from a renovated residential area. It is known for small craft stores, coffee shops, trendy art, and small streets.

The Shanghai Museum is a museum of ancient Chinese art and boasts the cities most impressive visiting collections, situated in the People’s Square.  Daily 9am-5pm. Last entry 4pm

This Exhibition Hall displays Shanghai’s urban planning and development. Exhibitions include models of planning, recent developments and Shanghai’s history. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a huge scale model of the city of Shanghai, showing all existing and approved buildings. Mon-Thu: 9am- 5pm (last entrance 4pm) Fri-Sun: 9am- 6pm (last entrance 5pm)

Founded in 1882, The Jade Buddha Temple is an active Chan (Zen) Buddhist monastery, but the real emphasis is squarely on tourism; namely the temple’s two white jade Buddhas. The temple houses a seated Buddha (1.95 meters tall, 3 tons), and a smaller reclining Buddha.  ¥15 entrance fee. 11:00am-1:00pm;   5:30pm-8:00pm

The former financial center of Asia circa 1920, the Bund is home to historic buildings of Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classical, Beaux-Arts, and Art Deco architecture. Contrast the historic buildings with the views of ultra-modern Pudong across the Huangpu river, and it makes for a fantastic glimpse of old and new Shanghai.