C-Drama Route Planner: Build Your China Itinerary

Most China trip planners start from a city. This China drama route planner starts from the dramas you have actually watched. Tick the shows you have seen, say how many days you have, and the planner turns them into a day-by-day route — the filming locations in a sensible travel order, with how to reach each one, what your passport changes, and a printable summary you can take with you.

What this is: a route builder, not a booking engine. It sequences the destinations we have already researched (15 dramas, 17 places across 12 provinces) and hands you the practical guide for each stop. It does not sell tickets and it does not make up transport times it cannot source.

Build your route

Step 1 — tick every drama you have watched. Step 2 — set how many days you can travel. The planner then builds the shortest sensible order for those locations and gives each one a share of your days.

1 · Dramas you have watched

2 · Days available

Build my route Reset

Pick at least one drama, then press Build my route.

Not sure which dramas to tick? Take the two-minute drama-city quiz first — seven questions match you to one of twelve cities, and it hands you straight back here with a place to build a route around.

How the China drama route planner builds your route

There is no black box. The planner does three things, and you can see all of them:

• It maps dramas to places. Each show in our filming-location map is linked to the destinations we have actually researched. Tick The Untamed and you get Hengdian and Duyun; tick Blossoms Shanghai and you get Shanghai.
• It orders the stops. The destinations are placed in a travel order that keeps neighbouring provinces together and avoids doubling back, rather than in the order you happened to tick them.
• It shares your days out. Every stop has a realistic minimum and maximum time, taken from its guide. The planner gives each stop its minimum, then distributes the days you have left up to each stop's maximum.

What it deliberately does not do: invent transport times, quote prices it cannot date, or sell you anything. For every practical claim, it links you to the guide that carries the dated source.

Common questions

Do I need to subscribe to use the planner?

No. Building a route, reading it on screen and following the links is free. The email is only asked for if you want to print or save the route as a PDF — and one email address is all we ask for.

How many days do I need?

It depends entirely on which stops you pick. A single-city drama such as Blossoms Shanghai needs about three days; a spread-out show such as Joy of Life can take a fortnight once you include the studios, the mountains and the travel between them. The planner warns you when your chosen stops need more days than you have.

Can I visit these places without a tour?

Yes. Every destination in the planner is independently visitable with public transport or a taxi, which is the whole point of our guides. Where a site genuinely needs a car, the guide says so.

Is the route the only correct order?

No — it is a sensible default. If you are arriving in a particular city, or meeting a flight, use the stop guides to resequence. The order is there to stop you zig-zagging across the country, not to overrule your own plans.