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NANJING ROAD WEST
Nanjing Road West is well known for its luxury shopping and latte
sipping opportunities, but there's much more to be discovered here:
this long street is surrounded by a rich mix of religious buildings,
grand mansions and neighbourhood lanes.
DISTANCE:
5km (3 miles)
TIME:
A full day
START:
Junction of Nanjing Road and Taixing Road
END:
Hengshan Moller Villa
POINTS TO NOTE:
Take the metro (line 2) to Nanjing Road West sta-
tion, or a taxi to the start point. Avoid the weekend crowds. This walk
is mostly outdoors, so save it for a dry day.
Nanjing Road's westernmost flank dominates the Jing An area. Much has changed since the
time it was called Bubbling Well Road and a 1930s guidebook claimed it was 'one of the sev-
en most interesting streets in the world'. Nowadays, the faded grandeur of its early 20th-cen-
tury buildings yields to café society, where Shanghai's smart set flock to sip lattes and slurp on
sundaes, before heading for the designer malls that form the bustling heart of this shopping
district.
