The ULTIMATE Nanjing Travel Guide (Top 10 things to do) China 🇨🇳

1. Yuhuatai Memorial Park of Revolutionary Martyrs (雨花台烈士陵园)
is a park and tourist site in the Yuhuatai District of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. The name Yuhuatai comes from yu (rain), hua (flower), tai (platform). A prominent feature of the park is a statue of nine figures. The statue commemorates the Chinese Communist Party members killed by the Kuomintang.
2. Lao Men Dong (老门东) to experience the local living style
Lao Men Dong is the core of southern Nanjing. Like Xintiandi in Shanghai, it is one of the city's most successful urban restoration projects. On the ground floor of former residential buildings, you will find lots of tea houses, local venders, design shops, folk artists, boutique hotels, bars, international restaurants and old former residences of celebrities. A museum complex locates here as well which is redeveloped from former Nanjing Colorful Fabric Factory. It includes Nanjing Painting and Calligraphy Academy, Jinling Art Museum, and Museum of Southern Nanjing Memory, where you can better understand Nanjing local culture.
3. Librairie Avant-Garde (Mount Wutai Branch)
is a bookstore opened by Qian Xiaohua in 2004, now regarded as the most representative bookstore in Nanjing, China. It has become a cultural icon of the city, and because of the adjacency to Nanjing University and the popularity among students, it is dubbed as "the second library of Nanjing University". The bookshop is hidden in a former government parking lot underneath Wutaishan Stadium, which has been used as a bomb shelter. Covering 3780 sq meter, it provides a large volume of social science and humanities books that have been recognized by the literati and history, ranging from literature, history, philosophy, movie, music, photography, dance, drama, architecture, art, cartoon and advertisement to social science, business and journalism, while excluding reference work and other practical books.
4. Deji Plaza 德基广场 is located in the heart of Nanjing city. The shopping centre aims to be a world-class shopping mall based Nanjing. The Plaza provides a platform to congregate international luxury brand flagship stores, and the design of Deji Plaza combines modern and natural elements, creating an optimal, unique and high end shopping environment. Aedas Graphics also completed the signage design throughout the shopping mall.
5. Kexiang Shopping Market科巷菜市場