PreeChina · Sight Guide
5 sights within 85 km of Shanghai. Pick the ones you want and PreeChina can build a private, custom or tailor-made tour around them.
At a Glance
Price
Per person, in US dollars. The price covers the guide, the ground service, and the transport, meals and tickets in the itinerary, and it falls as the group grows. What a price includes and leaves out.
| Travelers | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day trip | USD 305 | USD 220 | USD 185 | USD 175 | USD 160 | USD 155 | USD 145 | USD 135 |
Premium hotels and first-class rail raise the price: the selectors on Private Tours show by how much. The final price is confirmed in writing before anything is booked.
Why These Sights
5 historic architecture sights lie within 85 km of central Shanghai, from Yu Garden at 1.7 km to Lingering Garden at 84 km. They are: Yu Garden, Qinglong Pagoda, Master of Nets Garden, Humble Administrator's Garden, Lingering Garden.
This page lists the sights and how far each one sits from the city centre. It does not set a length for the trip: your private itinerary decides which sights to combine, the order and the number of days.
The Shanghai city guide covers the city itself.
Map
The gold marker is central Shanghai. Numbers run from the closest sight to the farthest.
Sight by Sight
1.7 km from central Shanghai, straight line
A 400-year-old Ming garden enclosed by Shanghai's towers, holding one of the three Taihu stones that people count the finest in the lower Yangtze, and once a rebel headquarters.
29 km from central Shanghai, straight line
A relic of Qinglong Town from the Tang and Song dynasties. Qinglong was the earliest overseas-trade port in the Shanghai area. Excavations found large amounts of export porcelain and Tang temple foundations, dating from centuries before the founding of Shanghai county.
80 km from central Shanghai, straight line
A tiny 8-mu garden considered the "perfection of small gardens", the model for the Ming Dynasty courtyard in New York's Metropolitan Museum, with evening Kunqu opera performances.
81 km from central Shanghai, straight line
Begun in 1509, and by convention listed first among the four great classical gardens of China. Seventy-eight mu of garden wrap around water. Borrowed scenery works here by counting a view outside the wall as part of the garden.
84 km from central Shanghai, straight line
A textbook case of Chinese garden space design: a narrow dark corridor opens into a bright courtyard, and a 6.5-meter Song Dynasty lake stone survived the emperor's ill-fated rock-collecting fleet.
Distances
| # | Sight | Type | Straight line |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yu Garden | Heritage Site | 1.7 km |
| 2 | Qinglong Pagoda | Pagoda | 29 km |
| 3 | Master of Nets Garden | Heritage Site | 80 km |
| 4 | Humble Administrator's Garden | UNESCO Site | 81 km |
| 5 | Lingering Garden | Heritage Site | 84 km |
Straight-line distances from the centre of Shanghai. Road and rail distances are longer.
Independent Travel
Arranging these 5 stops yourself keeps the budget lower. It also means booking each one and the transfers between them. Compare a private tour with independent travel, or ask PreeChina to plan it.
Custom Tour
This route is a starting point: 1 day and 5 stops. PreeChina plans it as a private, tailor-made trip and changes the stops, the days and the pace to your group.
Questions
This page lists 5, all within 85 km of central Shanghai in a straight line.
Yu Garden, at 1.7 km from the centre in a straight line.
84 km in a straight line. The road distance is longer.
It depends on which sights you combine. Your private itinerary sets the number of days, the order and the pace with you.
Anyone who wants a full day at one place. The route moves between 5 stops, so the visit at each is shorter.
Explore More
This route is in Shanghai. The province page lists its city guides, themes, museums and other routes.
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