2 days · Shanghai
City Highlights
14 stops2 route days
Mapped route
Two days across Shanghai
Real routesLocal transitChinese detailsPDF ready
Plan China WithLocal Confidence
Discover locally selected places, turn them into realistic day-by-day routes, and keep the Chinese names, addresses, and practical travel tools you need —all in one English-first planner.
Browse for free. Sign in only when you want to save places.
- locally selected places
- 560+
- destinations across China
- 11
- curated routes
- 6
11 destinations · 560+ places
Where will you go in China?
Open a city to browse locally selected places with English names, Chinese addresses, and practical travel tools.
Sample journey
See how Formscape plans a China trip
Real route geometry, locally selected places, and day-by-day scheduling—built around your interests and pace.
My journey
Day 1 · City Center Rush
- 1
09:00
WalkYu Garden
豫园
- 2
11:30
WalkNanjing Road East (Nanjing Dong Lu)
南京路步行街
- 3
13:00
WalkThe Press
申报馆咖啡
- 4
15:00
MetroThe Bund
外滩
- 5
16:30
WalkOriental Pearl Ring Skybridge
东方明珠广播电视塔环岛
- 6
19:00
DriveOld Shanghai No. 8 Restaurant
东方明珠老上海8号餐厅
- 7
21:30
The Bvlgari Bar
上海宝格丽酒店47层酒吧
China Travel Guides
Know what to expect before you arrive
Practical guides to maps, payments, transportation, local apps, Chinese addresses, and itinerary planning—so fewer things feel unfamiliar once you land.
Maps and navigation
Does Google Maps Work in China?
A practical guide to using Google Maps, Apple Maps, AMap, and Chinese destination details during a mainland China trip.
Read GuideTrip setupBest China Travel Apps
A task-by-task China travel app setup covering payments, rides, maps, trains, translation, and offline backups.
Read GuideShanghai itineraryShanghai 3-Day Itinerary
A real three-day Shanghai route using the same stops, Chinese place details, and neighborhood structure as the Formscape Travel product.
Read GuideBehind Formscape Travel
Built from travel friction we experienced firsthand
Formscape Travel began with a practical problem: helping someone new to China explore confidently without juggling unfamiliar apps, inconsistent translations, and scattered local information.
The product combines the local knowledge of a Chinese architect and designer who has lived and worked across China, the US, and the UK with the firsthand questions of a non-Chinese software engineer experiencing China. That perspective shapes what we include: useful places, realistic routes, and practical details chosen for genuine travel value—not virality.
- Local knowledge
- Recommendations consider neighborhood flow and real visitor friction.
- International perspective
- Built around questions non-Chinese-speaking travellers actually encounter.
- Practical over viral
- A place earns its spot by being useful, not merely popular.
60-Day China Trip Pass
One payment for planning and travelling
Use the complete toolkit while preparing your itinerary, then keep your plans and practical travel tools available throughout a typical 1–3 week China trip.
$14.99one-time
Valid for 60 days from purchase. No subscription or automatic renewal.
Free
- Browse locally selected places
- Use the English-first China travel map
- Build basic routes and trip lists
- Save up to 10 places
Trip Pass
- Create AI-assisted itineraries
- Save unlimited places and trips
- Export polished itinerary PDFs
- Access premium Travel Cards and on-trip tools
Upgrade when you need the full trip toolkit.