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Shanghai

People's Republic of China · 8 quests

History

2 quests
Old Millfun, Shanghai🇨🇳 Shanghai
Old Millfun
Concrete once housed the city's largest slaughterhouse
Yu Garden, Shanghai🇨🇳 Shanghai
Yu Garden
A walled garden turns stone into hills

Nature

2 quests
Century Park, Shanghai🇨🇳 Shanghai
Century Park
A forest and a folk village share one park
Chenshan Botanical Garden, Shanghai🇨🇳 Shanghai
Chenshan Botanical Garden
Plants climb the walls of a deep quarry

Art

2 quests
Glass Museum, Shanghai🇨🇳 Shanghai
Glass Museum
An old glass factory now holds unexpected art
M50, Shanghai🇨🇳 Shanghai
M50
More than a hundred artists open their studios

Sport

2 quests
Qizhong Arena, Shanghai🇨🇳 Shanghai
Qizhong Arena
Eight steel petals slide apart above it
Shanghai Stadium, Shanghai🇨🇳 Shanghai
Shanghai Stadium
Its home team changed after ten years

People's Republic of China

Photo quests in Shanghai

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Shanghai holds eight quests across four categories, with no single one of them defining the place: Art, History, Nature and Sport are level at two quests each.

Two of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other six are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers five of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. History here means places where something happened and the ground still shows it, which is also where the famous version and the standing version most often part company. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Shanghai quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The two quests in Shanghai the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Shanghai

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Shanghai

How many photo quests are there in Shanghai?
8, across four of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are History (2), Nature (2) and Art (2). Nothing in Food, Beach and Party here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Old Millfun, Century Park and Glass Museum.
What is there to do in Shanghai beyond the obvious?
2 of the 8 quests in Shanghai are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Shanghai holds two at tier 1, one at tier 2 and five at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Glass Museum and M50, which fall under Art.
Can you do all the Shanghai quests on one trip?
Not as one walk. The outermost of the 8 is 32 km from the middle of the Shanghai list, which makes this a region rather than a neighbourhood: several are a day out in their own right and are worth planning as such rather than fitted in.
Which Shanghai quests can you do for free?
6 of the 8 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 8 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Shanghai means two quests: Glass Museum and M50.
How do I prove I visited a place in Shanghai?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Shanghai is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Old Millfun fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you.