Abstract: Improving the quality of urban waterfront areas is of great significance to the construction of Shanghai into a global city. However, the existing waterfront quality evaluation studies are mainly based on the active interaction between human and nature, while the research on the passive interaction perspective of human and natural environment based on visual perception has not been systematically carried out. Based on the streetscape analysis technology, the visual landscape comfort evaluation system for waterfront space is constructed to evaluate the level of visual landscape comfort along Huangpu River and Suzhou Creek in Shanghai. This research finds that the spatial variation of the visual landscape comfort of Huangpu River and Suzhou Creek in Shanghai waterfront space is significant, and the continuity of linear waterfront space needs to be improved. In this way, it is expected to provide technical support for the high-quality development and refined management and control of cities.