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Shenzhen Itinerary Planner
Pick your days and interests — get a ready-to-copy Shenzhen tech tourist plan in seconds. Built from 5 day-by-day templates hand-written by working local guides. No signup, no email required, and you can edit the output freely.
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2 Days in Shenzhen
Built around self-driving cars (robotaxis), drone delivery & evtol — with the Nanshan tech corridor as the anchor and realistic travel time between districts.
Day 1 — Nanshan tech core
- 10:00
Inside Shenzhen Technology tour
Robotaxi + drone delivery + four flagships. 2.5 hours.
Book Inside Shenzhen Technology - 13:00
Lunch at OCT Harbour
Cantonese or Japanese near the tech tour endpoint.
- 14:30
Shekou waterfront + Sea World
Reform-era fishing village turned expat waterfront.
- 17:00
Sunset at Talent Park
Golden hour on the bay, with dinner at a bayside restaurant.
Day 2 — Huaqiangbei deep dive
- 10:00
Metro to Huaqiangbei
Start near Huaqiangbei Metro Station.
- 10:30
Huaqiangbei electronics market
Explore the markets by interest: components, gadgets, accessories and repairs.
Book the Huaqiangbei tour - 12:30
Lunch at a Futian food court
Regional Chinese food. MIXUE for cheap cold drinks.
- 14:00
SEG component hunt
With a BOM, dedicate two hours to SEG floors 3–5. Otherwise walk to Shenzhen Book City.
- 17:00
Ping An Finance Centre
Observation deck views over Futian and the bay.
How This Planner Works
Shenzhen is the hardware capital of the world, with over 17 million residents spread across 2,000 km² — far too much to see in a single visit. This planner exists because the single most common question we get from first-time visitors is not “where should I go” but “in what order, across what days?”
We have hand-built 5 templates covering the most common visit lengths (1, 2, 3, and 5 days) and the interest combinations we see most often on tour bookings and inbound emails. When you pick days and interests above, we match you to the best template. The output always includes time slots, site descriptions, and where applicable, which of our private tours fits into that slot (with DIY alternatives called out).
What Each Day Looks Like
A standard tech-tourist day in Shenzhen is organized around Nanshan (for robotaxis, drones, Chinese EVs, robotics, and Huawei) or Huaqiangbei (for the electronics market). Both districts are ~30 minutes apart on the metro. A full Nanshan tech day takes 4–6 hours including lunch; a full Huaqiangbei day takes 3–5 hours. We almost always recommend not combining both on the same day unless you are on a 1-day tight schedule.
Evenings are for the Houhai light show (free, 20:00 nightly), Shenzhen Bay park, or dinner in Coco Park. The Ping An Finance Centre observation deck is ¥250 per adult and worth one evening if the weather is clear. Our 5-day template also includes a Hong Kong day trip and a Dapeng beach day.
Where to Stay
For tech-heavy itineraries, stay in Nanshan — specifically around Houhai, Shekou, or the Shenzhen Bay Innovation zone. You will be within 15 minutes of the robotaxi pickup zone, the drone delivery pickup cabinets, and the Xiaomi EV and robotics stops. For Huaqiangbei-heavy itineraries, stay in Futian around Convention Center Station or Coco Park — you can walk to Huaqiangbei in 20 minutes and to the Ping An observation deck in 10.
See our Shenzhen arrival checklist for what to prepare before your flight lands — visa, SIM card, payment apps — and our tech travel glossary for plain-English definitions of every term in the itineraries above.