Xinchang
新场
Pudong's living water town: a flat, free stroll along the canal-side old street of 新场大街 — residents and working shops, a century-old teahouse, a Ming stone archway and the reported film sets of Lust, Caution — the quiet counterpoint to Qibao and Zhujiajiao.
Xinchang Ancient Town (新场古镇) sits in the south of Pudong, about 30 km from central Shanghai — a working water town of residents, small shops and canals that has never fully become a tourist set. The heart of the area is 新场大街, the old street that runs north-south beside the town river (市河): the north archway at 北栅口, the stone-arch Hongfu Bridge, the century-old First Floor Teahouse (第一楼茶园), the Ming-era Three-Generations Second-Rank Archway (三世二品坊) at the 牌楼东路 junction, the Chinese-Western Zhang family house (张氏宅第) and the Nanshan Temple (南山寺) at the street's south end. The streets are reported free, the walking is flat, and the town's unpolished everyday life is the point — the reported film crews of Lust, Caution and Ip Man chose it for that frame. Access is the practical note: Metro Line 16 to 新场站 plus a short local bus or ride-hail hop brings the town within reach without a car.
