You have to visit Longhua Temple for its Pagoda, which is really gorgeous! Besides, it is the oldest temple in Shanghai city, with a spacious courtyard built in the of traditional Buddhist symmetrical style, in accordance with the Chinese concept of beauty. We explored it following the scheme on the reverse of the ticket. We wouldn’t know the names of... More

Longhua Temple is quiet, serene and reverent. The Jade Budda Temple is more well known but because of this, Longhua doesn't have half as many tourists and is much more spiritual. We arrived in the late afternoon as the monks were doing their evening chants. There were only a handful of other tourists wandering around and it was wonderful. Although... More

Instead of fireworks on water, here the people celebrate our New Years eve (Dec 31st) every year by coming here to burn incence and pray for good fortune for the year ahead while the bell is rung. The part we didn't expect was an absolutely chaos night that a New Years Eve should be. People lighting fire crackers, and fireworks... More

My wife and I stayed in Shanghai and visited the temple. It is active and there were some people worshipping. I would advise visiting with a tour guide to understand everything in each building. We liked it better than Jade Budda.