Hongkou
Hongkou is a district of Shanghai, forming part of the northern urban core.
Hongkou is a district of Shanghai, forming part of the northern urban core. It has a land area of 23.48 km2 (9.07 sq mi) and a population of 757,498 as of 2020. The district borders Yangpu to the east, Pudong to the southeast, Huangpu to the southwest, Jing'an to the west and Baoshan to the north.
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Getting to Hongkou
- Airports
- Shanghai Hongqiao (SHA), 16 km · Shanghai Pudong (PVG), 34 km · Sunan Shuofang (WUX), 103 km
- Wuxi → Hongkou119 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · ¥50–70
- Hangzhou → Hongkou166 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · ¥70–90
- Ningbo → Hongkou153 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · ¥85–110
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Hongkou
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hongkou. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere is no bridge for pedestrians to cross, so if coming from the west side of the Huangpu River, your options are metro, taxi, ferry, sightseeing tunnel or bus.
- Get inThe cheapest way is to take the ferry from the Bund, near Yan'an Donglu, at the price of ¥2.
From Wikivoyage: Shanghai/Pudong, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Hongkou – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Hongkou
Hongkou is 2 km from Zhabei, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.