Shanghai’s 5-Kilometer “Nanjing Road” is World’s Longest Shopping Street

For the traveller or tourist who is keen to shop and partake in the modern Shanghainese shopping lifestyle, the answer is a visit to Nanjing Road. I suggest multiple visits since this shopping street is 5-kilometers very long!

I personally do not go shopping when I am travelling. I do buy stuff during my travels but they are always a by-product of my travel activities. Shopping is not a destination and travel activity. But I am always curious about shopping streets of cities. I want to see what it looks like, what kind of stores are there, what they offer, perhaps there is a café on the corner street that I can sit and have a drink whilst I watch people go about with their shopping?

Such as when I was in Copenhagen, I sat on this nice cafe restaurant on a corner of Stroget, which is the longest shopping street in Denmark and just watched people. I even managed to meet a local Dane where we had an interesting discussion about life.

Nevertheless, I was curious about the Shanghainese shopping lifestyle so I visited Nanjing Road.

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