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Bund Sightseeing Tunnel
A 647m voyage with entertainment from budget effects, garish lighting and surreal props, the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel is a transport mode that guarantees to get you to Pǔdōng in an altered state. Stepping from the trains at the terminus, visitors are visibly nonplussed, their disbelief surpassed only by those with return tickets. A combined ticket includes the excellent China Sex Culture Museum and other attractions Pǔdōng-side.
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Dajing Pavilion
Dating from 1815, this pavilion contains the only preserved section of the 5km-long city walls which were erected in 1553 but felled in 1912. A Chinese-language only exhibition on the history of the Old Town is on the ground floor along with an interesting scale model depicting the walled district during the reign of Qing emperor Tongzhi.
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Lu Xun Former Residence
Lu Xun buffs will adore ferreting around this simple three-floor domicile on lovely Shanyin Rd, where an English-speaking guide can fill you in on all the bits and bobs, including a clock displaying the exact time of Lu Xun's death and a painting hanging on the wall of the writer's son, Zhou Haiying, as a baby.
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Lu Xun Park
Especially gorgeous in spring and summer when the trees are in blossom, Lu Xun Park is one of the city's most pleasant parks, with elderly Chinese practising taichior ballroom dancing, and even the occasional retired opera singer giving a free performance. The English corner on Sunday mornings is one of the largest in all of Shanghai and a good place to chat to locals in English. You can take boats out onto the small lake.
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Lujiazui Development Showroom
This exhibition of photos, folk life and recent development in Pǔdōng, on the edge of Lujiazui Park, is mildly diverting but it's the historic building itself - unique in a forest of skyscrapers - that stands out. Built in 1914-17 as the residence of a rich merchant, Chen Guichun, it has both a main hall and interior courtyard. It's easily viewed from the outside.
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Riverside Promenade
Hands down the best stroll in Pǔdōng, the sections of promenade alongside Riverside Ave on the eastern bank of the river offer splendid views to the Bund across the way and choicely positioned cafés looking out over the water.
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Shanghai Exhibition Centre
The hulking great monolith of the Shanghai Exhibition Centre can be seen from West Nanjing Rd. It was built as the Palace of Sino-Soviet Friendship, a friendship that soon turned to ideological rivalry and even the brink of war in the 1960s. Architectural buffs will appreciate its monumentality and unsubtle, bold Bolshevik strokes - there was a time when Pǔdōng was set to look like this.
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Song Qingling's Former Residence
Built in the 1920s by a Greek shipping magnate, this building became home to the wife of Dr Sun Yatsen from 1948 to 1963. Size up two of her black limousines (one a gift from Stalin) in the garage and pad about the house, eyeing its period furnishings.
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Sun Yatsen's Former Residence
China is awash with Sun Yatsen (Sun Zhongshan) memorabilia and this is one of several former dwellings nationwide. Sun lived here on Rue Molière for six years from 1918 to 1924, supported by overseas Chinese funds. The entry price gets you a brief tour of the house in English.
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Zhou Enlai's Former Residence
In 1946 Zhou Enlai, the urbane and much-loved (although some swear he was even more sly than Mao) first premier of the People's Republic of China, lived in this Spanish villa. Zhou was then head of the Communist Party's Shanghai office, and spent much of his time giving press conferences and dodging Kuomintang agents who spied on him from across the road.
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