How to arrange a 2-3 day trip to Suzhou?

Day 1 Journey to the West of the City

1. After arriving in Suzhou in the morning, you can choose one of three classic attractions.

1. Tiger Hill: 5A Scenic Area

Jianchi, Leaning Tower, Luyu: The Third Spring in the World

After that, you can walk the entire Shantang Street. 3.5km

2. Hanshan Temple: 4A Scenic Spot

One of the three major temples in Suzhou, Zen/Pure Land Sect, Fengqiao Night Mooring is here

You can visit it later Walk to Shantang Street, 2.5km

3. Xiyuan Jiezhuang Lv Temple: 4A Scenic Spot

One of the three major temples in Suzhou, the Lv Sect, and one of the four major Luohan Halls in the country

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Afterwards, you can walk to Shantang Street, 1.4km

2. Lunch options

If you choose a temple, you can have vegetarian noodles or vegetarian dishes in the temple for lunch.

If you choose Huqiu, you can go to the Transportation Technical School restaurant (Suzhou cuisine 40per) if it’s cheap, or Guanyunlou (Suzhou cuisine 100per) if it’s more expensive.

3. Afternoon itinerary

Take a taxi, bus or walk.

1. Art garden, minimalist private garden, 10per travel highlights

Visit Shantang Street.

Built by Bai Juyi, you can take a boat, it is similar to Jinli in Chengdu

2. For dim sum, you can choose Rongyang Building on Shantang Street

(It is very 80s anyway A shop with an old-school feel, dim sum 15 per)

3. Take a taxi or bus

If you want to have more fun, you can choose the Master of the Nets Garden (4A scenic spot) Night Garden , less crowded, night gardens, highlights of the four famous gardens

Kun Opera, 100per, limited time 19:30-22:00

4. If you are not interested in gardens anymore, You can go to the Nanmen Ferry Terminal in the evening.

5. Take a taxi or bus

It is recommended that the hotel be near the Humble Administrator’s Garden, because you will get up early tomorrow.

Day 2 trip to the east of the city

Today is all walking

1. Morning itinerary

6:30 Tour to the Humble Administrator’s Garden (5A Scenic spots) Early morning charter (with a tour guide) Highlights of the trip.

188 yuan per

Limited time is 6:30-7:30, but you don’t need to leave the park at 7:30, you can continue shopping.

You need to make an appointment in advance via WeChat, and the total number of people at each time will not exceed 15, which can ensure the feeling of being a garden master.

See here for details ->Enter the Humble Administrator’s Garden privately 1 hour in advance

7:30 Breakfast at Wumen Family House 30per or hotel breakfast

9:30 Suzhou Museum (free)

The building itself is worth seeing, it was built by I.M. Pei.

There are regular theme exhibitions.

Wen Zhengming planted wisteria and played with Prince Zhong of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

10:30 Pingjiang Road (free)

It is similar to Kuanzhai Alley, Xiaotong Alley in Chengdu and Nanluogu Alley in Beijing.

There are fewer people in the morning, which is more fun.

You can take a detour to the Kunqu Opera Museum and Pingtan Museum. (The Kunqu Opera Museum is currently under maintenance, 2015, reminder in March)

2. Lunch options

Lunch near Guanqian Street at 12 o'clock.

The following are available:

Suzhou noodles, 15 yuan per:

Tongde Xingfengzhen Big Pork Noodles in Jiayu Fang (Old Suzhou Ten Bowl Noodles , A Bite of China 2, 3 meals)

Manhao Ge Sujiao Noodles in Jingxiang (New Broadcasting and Television Station Suzhou Ten Bowls of Noodles)

The delicious fried fish noodles on Northwest Street (far away , the old Suzhou 10-bowl noodles)

Northwestern Street Yuxingji has two yellow noodles (further away, the New Broadcasting and Television Station Suzhou 10-bowl noodles)

Dumb pan-fried fish, 12 yuan per ( Need to queue)

Suzhou cuisine, 80 yuan per:

Eunuch Lane? Songhelou (personally think it is more delicious than Deyuelou, but now it is available all over the country, so be sure to eat it) Order braised pork)

Eunuch Nong? Deyuelou (A Bite of China 2 Heart Biography)

Wumen Family (Ieoh Ming Pei’s old house, garden) (reservation required)

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In the afternoon, I went shopping to buy some specialties and prepared to go back. 3. Specialties worth buying

Huang Tianyuan’s rice cakes

Cooked dishes recommended by Lu Gao

Jinjin brand dried tofu (don’t buy other brands)

Xiangcheng Sesame Cake

If you have extra time, you can listen to Suzhou Pingtan at Guangyu Bookstore on Guanqian Street, which costs about 10 yuan per person.

After that, take the subway, bus or taxi to the train station and bus station and go home.

Extended information:

Suzhou is located in East China, southeastern Jiangsu, and the middle of the Yangtze River Delta. It is an important part of the Yangtze River urban agglomeration, bordering Shanghai to the east, Jiaxing and Baoding to the west. Taihu Lake, adjacent to the Yangtze River in the north, is located between 119°55′～121°20′ east longitude and 30°47′～32°02′ north latitude.

The city's terrain is low and flat, with plains accounting for 54.8% of the total area, an altitude of about 4 meters, and hills accounting for 2.7% of the total area.

Suzhou has a subtropical monsoon oceanic climate with four distinct seasons and abundant rainfall. It grows rice, wheat, and rapeseed, and produces cotton, sericulture, and forest fruits. Its specialty products include Biluochun tea, Yangtze saury, Taihu whitebait, and Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs.

Suzhou is one of the first batch of national historical and cultural cities with a history of nearly 2,500 years. It is one of the birthplaces of Wu culture and one of the "Four Gatherings in the World" in the Qing Dynasty. It has the reputation of "Paradise on Earth". Representatives of China's private gardens - Suzhou Classical Gardens and the Suzhou Section of the China Grand Canal are listed as World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO.