Wuzhen Travel Guide, Transportation, Food and Accommodation

Wuzhen is a famous tourist attraction, attracting a large number of tourists every year. The transportation here is convenient, and you can take planes, trains and buses. Be sure to book accommodation and transportation before traveling during the peak tourist season to avoid affecting your travel experience. How to get to Wuzhen

Flight: If you take a plane, you can fly to Xiaoshan International Airport. There is a bus directly to Wuzhen at the airport. The bus starts leaving at 10 am, about every hour, and the last bus leaves at 6 pm. The whole journey takes about an hour and a half.

Train/High-speed Rail: Get off at Tongxiang Railway Station. After getting off, take bus K282 from the bus station of the train station and get off at Wuzhen Station. Then transfer to Bus K353 and get off at Wuzhen Middle School Station. You can get there near the east entrance of Xizha, or take bus K282 at Wuzhen New Station and transfer to K337 bus and get off at Wuzhen Old Middle School Station. If it is night, you can take the night bus K282 and transfer to K353 at the Egg Market Station and get off at Wuzhen Middle School Station. The whole journey takes about two and a half hours.

Long-distance buses: There are also special buses departing from Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi and other surrounding cities to Wuzhen. After arriving at Wuzhen Bus Station, you can take a bus to Dongzha or Xizha. If you take bus k353 and get off at Wuzhen Middle School Station or take bus k337 and get off at Wuzhen Old Middle School, you can reach the vicinity of Xizha. Or you can take bus K350 or 350 and get off at Wuzhen Dongzha. In the evening, you can take the K231 night bus and get off at Fengxian Xincun Station, but the walking distance after getting off this bus is relatively long.

Self-driving: There are several expressways that can reach Wuzhen - S11 Zhajia Expressway, S12 Shenjiahu Expressway, S13 Shenjiahuhang Expressway, G50 Shanghai-Chongqing Expressway, G60 Shanghai-Kunming Expressway (from Shanghai to Tongxiang Exit, Take the Tudian exit from Hangzhou). There are paid parking lots in Dongzha and Xizha. The Dongzha parking lot is located on Ziye Road in Wuzhen. It is relatively small and parking is not allowed at night. There are four parking lots in Xizha, respectively at the east gate, south gate and north gate of Xizha (the north gate is the exit, and the east and south gates are the entrance) and on the west side of the Wuzhen Middle School staff dormitory. However, the parking lot on the west side of the staff dormitory is only open to the public during Golden Week. What kind of food is there in Wuzhen?

Dongzha Food

Dongzha is relatively small, and there are relatively few places to eat. In addition to home-cooked meals in B&Bs, you can also eat in restaurants or small restaurants. Eat at the stall. If you want to eat in a restaurant, there is an old restaurant called Fengyuan Restaurant in the scenic area, which is a designated tourist restaurant here.

Fengyuan Restaurant is a water pavilion restaurant built in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, just to the west of Dongzha Caishen Bay. This shop mainly sells traditional local dishes such as white water fish with chopped pepper, braised mutton, steamed taro with soy sauce meat, garlic with chopped pepper, steamed snails with beef louvers, Fengyuan Dingsheng cake, etc.

Xizha Food

Since Xizha is much larger than Dongzha in area, Xizha will have more space to accommodate more food. Only the officially recommended restaurants in Wuzhen are those marked on the picture. Where to stay in Wuzhen

Accommodations in Dongzha are mainly B&Bs run by locals. They are self-employed and not under the unified management of the scenic spot, and the prices are cheaper than those in Xizha. If you book a room in advance, the landlord can take you to the scenic spot without buying tickets for Dongzha Scenic Area. However, all scenic spots in Dongzha require ticket inspection. In other words, if you do not buy tickets, the landlord will take you to Dongzha. You cannot visit the interior of various scenic spots in Dongzha.

Accommodation places in Xizha include various B&Bs, hotels, youth hostels, budget hotels and resort hotels. Since they are under the unified management of the scenic spot, the prices are more expensive, and sometimes reservations cannot be made in advance. situation. But relatively speaking, all aspects will be more secure under the unified management of the scenic spot. And if you have a room card in Xizha Scenic Area, you can enter and exit Xizha Scenic Area multiple times.

It is worth noting that the Xizha Visitor Center will provide luggage storage and transportation services, that is, tourists can store their luggage at the Visitor Center first. If you live in Xizha, the Visitor Service Center will be responsible for storing the luggage. Delivered to guest room. However, the tourist service center in Dongzha only provides luggage storage services. Generally speaking, it will be more economical and more affordable if you live in Dongzha. If you live in Xizha, you will enjoy more comprehensive services, and it will be more convenient to see the night view of Xizha.

There are also places to stay outside Dongzha and Xizha, and the price will be cheaper than staying in the scenic area.

However, as Wuzhen is a famous tourist area, there are usually many tourists. If you want to avoid the peak passenger flow for taking photos or playing, you must make good time in the early morning and evening. But if you live outside the scenic area, there is no way to enter the scenic area in advance. If you live inside the scenic area, you can go out and play at any time.