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1–2 each weekAll routes
Behind Wukang Road: A Detour from Urumqi Road
The plane-tree quarter without the Instagram crowds
The Bund: stories behind 22 buildings
The must-do route, with a real story per building
Bund Source to Shiliupu: the full waterfront
From the northern church to the southern docks in one walk
Suzhou River North Bank: From Butterfly Bay to Guangfuli
The waterside of factories, flour mills and dockworkers
Hengshan–Fenyang–Baoqing: consulates and the conservatory
Music drifts out of the old villas' windows
Inside the Old City: The Real Shanghai Behind Yu Garden
Another Shanghai, 500 metres past the Yu Garden tourists
Deep Hengfu: Gao'an–Kangping–Yuqing
No shops, just villas — where locals walk their dogs
Yangpu Riverside: From the Hemp Warehouse to the Municipal Power Plant
The first electricity in China was generated here
Tianzifang: shikumen, commercialised
How an old shikumen lane became a tourist market
Xinhua Road Lanes: Twenty Houses in the 'Foreign Lane'
What's left of a 1930s expat enclave
Bugaoli–Jianguo West: shikumen as it was
Pair with Tianzifang to see what shikumen looked like before
Tilanqiao: Two Blocks of the Jewish Refugee Quarter
The 1943 ark — the streets still stand
Nanchang–Sinan: Another Diagonal Through the Plane-tree Quarter
The French Concession, half as crowded as Wukang Road
Duolun & Tian'ai Road: The League of Left-Wing Writers, Plus a Love-Letter Lane
The streets Lu Xun walked, finished with a lane of love letters
Yuyuan Road: from Jing'an Temple to Zhongshan Park
The western plane-tree belt — highest density of old villas
Longhua–Tushanwan: late-Qing churches and translators
Where China's first generation of overseas students set out