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Hongkou, Shanghai — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Hongkou is a district of Shanghai in the city's northern urban core, a museum-dense ward on the Huangpu bank.
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Where to stay in Hongkou
The practical side of choosing where to sleep.
Hongkou keeps its beds within reach of its museums. The district sits in the northern urban core of Shanghai, so a room here can put the Rockbund Art Museum, the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, or the Lu Xun quarter a short walk from your door. Pick your patch by mood.
Each corner of Hongkou leans a different way, from the riverfront galleries down at the Huangpu edge to the quieter memorial streets in the north.
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The Rockbund riverfront
Rooms beside the Rockbund Art Museum open onto Hongkou's Huangpu-facing quarter, where restored waterfront blocks put contemporary galleries and the river promenade a level walk apart.Find hotels in The Rockbund riverfrontTravellers pairing the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum with the Monument to the People's Heroes on foot within Hongkou.Around the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum
Staying near the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum sets you inside the old Tilanqiao streets, the wartime shelter quarter where the museum and the Monument to the People's Heroes anchor the district's memory.Find hotels in Around the Shanghai Jewish Refugees MuseumYou want the Shanghai Lu Xun Museum and its surrounding park lanes as the walkable heart of your stay.The Lu Xun quarter
A room by the Shanghai Lu Xun Museum drops you among the tree-lined lanes and the park that carry the writer's name, with the district's literary corner spread around it.Find hotels in The Lu Xun quarterHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
Things to do in and around Shanghai
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Museums & Galleries
3- Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum
- Shanghai Railway Museum
- Shanghai Postal Museum
Castles & Historic Sites
1- Monument to the People's Heroes
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About Hongkou
What are the main landmarks in Hongkou?
The district crowds its draws together. Within Hongkou you can reach the Rockbund Art Museum, the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, and the Shanghai Lu Xun Museum, while the Shanghai Postal Museum, the Shanghai Railway Museum, and the Memorial Hall of the 4th National Congress of the Communist Party of China gather the district's civic and transport history within a few streets of Shanghai's northern core. The Monument to the People's Heroes rounds it out.
What is the history of Hongkou?
Hongkou carries the memory of arrivals. This part of Shanghai's northern core sheltered thousands of Jewish refugees in the Tilanqiao streets during the war, a story the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum now keeps, and the writer Lu Xun spent his last years in the same lanes that the Shanghai Lu Xun Museum records. The district remembers both.
Where is Hongkou?
Hongkou lines the northern core of Shanghai. This inner district holds a subtropical, humid pocket of the city, its streets running from the Huangpu bank up toward Baoshan, with Yangpu on the east and Jing'an on the west.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Hongkou?
The Rockbund riverfront: You want the Rockbund Art Museum and the Huangpu riverside within a short stroll of your Hongkou base.. Around the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum: Travellers pairing the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum with the Monument to the People's Heroes on foot within Hongkou.. The Lu Xun quarter: You want the Shanghai Lu Xun Museum and its surrounding park lanes as the walkable heart of your stay..
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Updated October 2026