City God Temple (Chenghuangmiao)

One hundred years ago, as more and more pilgrims came to worship in the temple, many peddlers began to open shops near the City God Temple. Slowly, a popular, old-fashioned market came about. Today, around the temple and in a circumference of one-third of a mile there are more than one hundred small shops and restaurants. It is not only an ideal shopping place for Shanghai residents--they can find things unobtainable elsewhere and they dine at their favorite restaurants, but also an 'Must' tourist and shopping center where visitors loitering among a cluster of shops, restaurants and recreation facilities invariably find themselves making a tour of discovery of local folklore and Ming and Qing architecture.

Today's City God Temple Bazaar is composed of specialty stores selling traditional Chinese arts and crafts, medicine and souvenirs. Over a hundred small stores stand side by side, beautifully laid with a large collection of commodities, each with its own unique feature and alive with shoppers, keeping the style of traditional Chinese town streets.