Explore Shanghai’s colonial underworld on a gangster tour through the most famous streets. Learn the art of chopstick pickpocketing, how to cheat at blackjack, and how to shoot like a criminal kingpin!
About this activity
- Free cancellation
- Cancel up to 24 hours in advance to receive a full refund
- Mobile ticketing
- Use your phone or print your voucher
- Duration 2 hours
- Check availability to see starting times.
- Instant confirmation
- Wheelchair accessible
Experience
Highlights
- Explore the gangster underworld of Shanghai on a private tour
- See where one of the richest opium dealers in Shanghai once lived
- Admire the house where one of Shanghai’s wealthiest banking families lived and find out how dog food brought a bloody end to it’s empire
- Visit the luxurious mansion presented to Shanghai's most powerful criminal mastermind
- See the clubhouse in which “Big Eared” Du stored his opium and find out how he avoided arrest
- See where the Chinese customs officer once lived, and discover why he was such a thorn in the side of “Big Eared” Du
- Visit the mansion that was built by a Dutch con-man who got away with daylight robbery
- See where the White Russians used to live and work
- Stroll past the former home of Chiang Kai Shek and find out just how corrupt he really was
Full description
This private 2-hour tour of Shanghai takes you on a journey into its notorious gangster underbelly. You will learn about the crime lords who once ruled the city like kings, from “Big Eared” Du with his lucky monkey heads, to “Pockmarked” Huang and his police car drug distribution.
Guests on the Gangster Tour will have exclusive access to a set of colonial costumes and accessories provided by Newman Tours to get them in the mood.
After meeting your guide, you will be taken around the French Concession as it was in the 1930s and told the darkest tales and deepest secrets behind the lives of Shanghai's most powerful gangsters and leading criminal families.
Visit famous haunts and hidden corners, including a property that once belonged to one of the world’s most influential families.
Find out how to cheat at Black Jack and Craps and learn how colonial Shanghai’s casinos ensured that they always came out on top.
If hanging round criminal estates and learning how to cheat still hasn’t got your heart pumping, then how about shooting some guns? If you are game, as an optional extra, you will be taken to a shooting range to participate in a “Cops and Robbers” shooting competition.
Includes
- Native English-speaking tour guide
- All admission fees
- Transportation to and from start and end point of tour (this can be arranged as an additional service in your choice of taxi or private vehicle upon request)
- Tax invoices (available for an additional 15% of the total cost of the tour)
- Additional fees
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Date
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Meeting point
Outside exit 3 of Changshu Road Metro Station (lines 7 & 1) near the junction between Huaihai Road and Changshu Road.
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- Newman Tours reserves the right to cancel tours by informing confirmed attendees at least 3 hours in advance.
- We reserve the right to start our tours on time and will not wait for guests more than 10 minutes after the scheduled start time of their tours. Children under 16 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
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- We reserve the right to refuse people the right to attend and if necessary remove them from their tours if they are intoxicated, aggressive or offensive.
- Newman Tours reserves the right to alter the listed content of tours as a result of bad weather or location inaccessibility; in doing so, we will try to ensure that equally high quality alternative content is provided.
