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Pudong
District in Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Pudong

Pudong is a district of Shanghai located east of the Huangpu, the river which flows through central Shanghai.

Plan a trip to Pudong→From Wuxi

The name Pudong was originally applied to the Huangpu's east bank, directly across from the west bank or Puxi, the historic city center. It now refers to the broader Pudong New Area, a state-level new area which extends all the way to the East China Sea.

Get in

Getting to Pudong

There 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. The cheapest way is to take the ferry from the Bund, near Yan'an Donglu, at the price of ¥2. Using the metro costs only a bit more. Many lines of the Shanghai metro serve Pudong. Four of them meet at Century Avenue Station: Line 2.

See

Worth seeing

Many of the sights of Pudong are the large buildings of Lujiazui, all built since 1990. As of mid-2017 the area has three buildings on Wikipedia's list of the world's 50 tallest, including two in the top ten. Counting the Pearl Tower — which does not make that list because it does not have floors all the way up — there are four buildings over 400 m, a quarter mile high.

  1. 01
    Oriental Pearl TV Tower
  2. 02
    Jinmao Tower
  3. 03
    Shanghai Tower

    At 632 m (2,073 ft) high and 128 stories it is China's tallest building and the second tallest in the world as of mid-2018.

  4. 04
    Shanghai World Financial Center
  5. 05
    Shanghai Ocean Aquarium
  6. 06
    Century Park
Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    International Convention Center
  2. 02
    Shanghai Free-Trade Zone

    An area with reduced requirements for foreign businesses wanting access to the mainland China market.

  3. 03
    Shanghai Disneyland
Eat

Where to eat

Canton (in the Intercontinental Hotel). For authentic dim sum and many other Cantonese specialties. Danieli's, St. Regis, 889 Dongfang Lu,. A fine Italian restaurant, this place offers fresh, seasonal home made dishes. The five course set menu is excellent value, while the wines can be pricey. Staff are perfectly groomed and attentive to customers. The Grill, Grand Hyatt, 88 Shiji Dadao,.

How locals move

Getting around Pudong the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see file page), Wikimedia Commons.