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Skip the tour bus. A few free hours with a local who shares what you are into — electronics, food, skylines, mornings — and a city that finally makes sense.
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A few hours, one local
Every experience below is one-on-one and free while we pilot — two or three hours built around one thing done properly rather than six things glimpsed from a coach window.
Free during the pilot — your buddy’s time costs nothing, and what you eat or ride you pay at local prices.
Most booked华强北The world's largest electronics market, walked with someone who knows where to go.
Free
per person
东门老街Food & night marketWhere Shenzhen's past meets its vibrant nightlife.
福田Views & city lightsUp the hill for the sunset, down into the CBD for the lights.
口岸Arrival & logisticsCross the border and get a working phone, a working wallet and a real lunch.
大排档Late night & drinking foodThe meal Shenzhen has at eleven at night, on plastic stools, with your hands.
早茶Mornings & marketsWhat twelve million people actually eat before work, plus the market it comes from.
What a buddy actually does
Not a licence, not a coach, not a flag on a stick. A person who lives here and takes the awkward parts off your plate.
Menus, stalls, counters, taxi drivers. Spoken for you in the moment, not typed into an app afterwards.
Alipay and WeChat Pay set up and tested on your phone, because almost nothing here takes a foreign card.
Metro QR codes, the right exit, and a ride called and explained to the driver at the end of the night.
Your buddy asks the real price in the room. Nothing you buy passes through us and we take no cut of it.
Tell them at hour two that you would rather do something else, and the rest of the day changes. Try that on a coach.
Booking costs nothing during the pilot — no card, no deposit. If we cannot confirm your day, we tell you straight away, and nothing was ever charged.
The map
Shenzhen is too big to “see” in a day. Pick the part that matches what you came for.
How it works
01Choose an experience, or say what you are into and let your buddy build the day around it.
02Open days are listed live. Request one for free — 2 or 3 hours — and we confirm within three business days.
03Message beforehand, meet at the point you agreed, and explore. Leave a review afterward.
Visiting Shenzhen
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Reviews
Every review on this site will come from a completed booking. We do not write them ourselves and we do not buy them. Book a day during the pilot, and the first words here could be yours — good or bad.
The journal
Long-form guides to the parts of this city that are genuinely confusing.
2026-09-14
Before the skyline there was Dongmen — pagoda roofs, snack streets, market floors. A walk through the old downtown, at the hour it wakes up.
Read more2026-09-03
Daylight is when Shenzhen works. At night the towers run light shows, the late tables fill up, and the markets keep going. An evening, done properly.
Read more2026-08-18
Nobody's grandmother is from Shenzhen. That is the best thing about eating here — the whole country cooks in one city. Where to start, dish by dish.
Read moreMoments
Every picture on this site was taken by us, in this city.
From a friend
Free to join during the pilot. Takes under a minute.