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Nanshan's skyline lit up at night across Shenzhen Bay, the towers mirrored in still water

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See Shenzhen with someone who gets you.

Skip the tour bus. Spend two or three free hours with a local who is into the same things you are: electronics, food, skylines, early mornings.

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  • 华强北 Huaqiangbei
  • 东门 Dongmen
  • 蛇口 Shekou
  • 福田 Futian
  • 南山 Nanshan
  • 罗湖 Luohu
  • 莲花山 Lianhuashan
  • 大排档 Dàpáidàng
  • 深圳湾 Shenzhen Bay
  • 龙岗 Longgang
  • 宝安 Bao'an
  • 龙华 Longhua

A few hours, one local

Two or three hours, your pick.

Every experience below is just you (and a friend, if you like) and a local, free while we pilot. Most run 2 or 3 hours, your pick; Talent Park and Shekou run 2. Each one is 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.

The lit entrance of Huaqiang Electronic World at night, above the Huaqiangbei metro entrance
Most booked华强北
Electronics & makers2 or 3 hoursPrivate · 1–2 people

Huaqiangbei Deep Dive

The world's largest electronics market, walked with someone who knows where to go.

  • 0:00Meet your buddy
  • 0:20Into the malls
  • 1:00The gadget challenge
  • …+4 more stops

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What a buddy actually does

The friction, handled.

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.

How to get local help in Shenzhen

  • Translation, live

    Menus, stalls, counters, taxi drivers. Spoken for you in the moment, not typed into an app afterwards.

  • Payments that work

    Alipay and WeChat Pay set up and tested on your phone, because almost nothing here takes a foreign card.

  • Getting around

    Metro QR codes, the right exit, and a ride called and explained to the driver at the end of the night.

  • Local prices

    Your buddy asks the real price in the room. Nothing you buy passes through us and we take no cut of it.

  • A plan that bends

    Tell them at hour two that you would rather do something else, and the rest of the day changes. Try that on a coach.

  • Free, honestly

    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

Six districts, six different cities.

Shenzhen is too big to “see” in a day. Pick the part that matches what you came for.

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  1. 01Nanshan南山
  2. 02Futian福田
  3. 03Luohu罗湖
  4. 04Bao'an宝安
  5. 05Longhua龙华
  6. 06Longgang龙岗

How it works

Three small steps.

  1. Sourdough rounds and baguettes on a Shenzhen bakery counter
    01

    Pick your experience

    Choose an experience, or say what you are into and let your buddy build the day around it.

  2. Clip-top jars of kumquats and plums preserved in syrup
    02

    Pick your day

    Open days are listed live. Request one for free — 2 or 3 hours — and we confirm within three business days.

  3. Shenzhen towers lit blue at night, seen from street level
    03

    Meet and go

    Message beforehand, meet at the point you agreed, and explore. Leave a review afterward.

A Shenzhen night market stall laid with trays of skewered insects

Visiting Shenzhen

For travelers

  • Skip the language barrier — match by shared languages
  • Go where the locals actually go
  • Just you, or you and a friend. Never a group tour
A shared table of chicken rice, noodles and fried tofu skin in Shenzhen

Live in Shenzhen

For locals

  • Meet people from around the world
  • Show people the places you actually like
  • Pick the days, topics, and pace that work for you

Reviews

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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

Read before you come.

Long-form guides to the parts of this city that are genuinely confusing.

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Moments

Our own photographs, not stock.

Every photo in our gallery was taken by us, in this city.

  • The lit entrance of Huaqiang Electronic World at night, its LED-clad facade and screens above the Huaqiangbei metro entrance.
  • A tapered skyscraper lit white from base to spire at night, seen past a raised pedestrian walkway and a grass bank.
  • The Nanshan skyline at night across the lake in Shenzhen Talent Park, a footbridge lit bright blue along the water and the towers reflected beneath it, framed by dark tree branches.
  • A Futian CBD street at night: towers lit red and blue, a faceted glass skybridge between two buildings, a facade of coloured light panels, and a taxi on the wet road below.
  • The Shenzhen Bay waterfront promenade on a clear day: a wooden-topped railing runs along green water, with hills across the bay under a blue sky.
  • The white Minghua ship lit up at night above the Sea World plaza in Shekou, with palm trees, restaurant signs and people strolling across the square.
  • Three high-rise towers at night, two of them ribbed with blue vertical lighting, framed by dark tree branches from street level.
  • A night market stall laid with trays of skewered insects — scorpions, silkworm pupae and grasshoppers — beside a bilingual price board.
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From a friend

SplitWhom — split shared expenses with friends

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