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Shanghai Ghetto, Shanghai — Area Guide & Where to Stay
The Shanghai Ghetto is a historic quarter of Shanghai around Tilanqiao, where Jewish refugees settled and the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum stands.
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Where to stay in Shanghai Ghetto
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The Shanghai Ghetto is a historic residential quarter, not a hotel district. Rooms here are scarce. Its lanes run through the Tilanqiao area of Hongkou, lined with old row houses and shophouses rather than lodgings, so most visitors base themselves in central Shanghai and travel out to walk it.
Stay nearby for the memory streets around Changyang Road. The Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum anchors the walk.
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What are the main landmarks in Shanghai Ghetto?
The district's landmarks trace its wartime story and its neighbourhood life. The Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum on Changyang Road holds the former Ohel Moishe Synagogue at its heart. A short walk away sit the Shanghai Lu Xun Museum, devoted to the writer Lu Xun, and the China Tobacco Museum.
Older memory runs deep here. Across the Huangpu, the Oriental Pearl Tower rises over the far bank in clear view of the ghetto's rooftops.
What is the history of Shanghai Ghetto?
The Shanghai Ghetto took its lasting shape in the years around 1945. Japanese occupation authorities confined thousands of stateless Jewish refugees to a restricted sector in the Tilanqiao area of Hongkou, and the crowded lanes off Changyang Road became their home through the war. The refugees stayed.
When the war ended most left, yet the synagogue that became the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum kept their story, and the quarter around it still carries the marks of those years.
Where is Shanghai Ghetto?
The Shanghai Ghetto sits in the Tilanqiao area of Hongkou, on the near bank of the Huangpu across from the Oriental Pearl Tower.
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Updated July 2026