Suzhou Two-Day Tour Guide
Suzhou | Two-Day Tour Guide
I originally planned to play in Suzhou for three days, but then I added Wuzhen and Hangzhou to my itinerary, shortening the time to two days. After playing, I found that the time was enough.
Stay: Guanqian Street Transportation: Taxi, Subway (Suzhou e-travel app)
Day1️⃣ Pingjiang Road️ Jinji Lake️ The Gate of the Orient️ Guanqian Street
Set off at 4 pm, first went to Pingjiang Road for two and a half hours, ate Meiyuexuan plum blossom cake and chicken feet corner. Going to Pingjiang Road after four o'clock in the afternoon feels just right, the sunlight is not dazzling, and you can also take pictures with golden hair.
Then take a taxi to the Jinji Lake big frame, which is a bit far from this place and other attractions. Arrange it on the first night, and you can see the sunset at night. You can also see the Gate of the Orient.
When it gets dark, take the subway to the east gate. Many people squat on the ground to check in and take pictures.
Then take a taxi to Guanqian Street, eat Dongwu Sujinji, his Suzhou-style mung bean soup is great, it is a huge relief from the heat with a mint flavor.
Finally, walk back to the hotel, ordered takeout from Xinzhenyuan because it was already after nine o'clock when I returned to the hotel, I didn't want to queue up, and some Xinzhenyuan stores close at 9 pm. Ordered small wontons, egg yolk paper skin shumai, pan-fried buns. The shumai was a bit greasy, but the pan-fried buns were delicious.
Day2️⃣ Humble Administrator's Garden️ Suzhou Museum (this museum)️ Xiyuan Temple️ Lingering Garden️ Shantang Street
The Humble Administrator's Garden and the Suzhou Museum are next to each other, so it's very convenient to walk together. The Suzhou Museum is free, make an appointment in advance on the official WeChat account. I booked the earliest 9 am to 10 am. But I didn't want to waste time, so I went to the Humble Administrator's Garden first, which opens at 7:30 am, played a round, and found the timing was just right, not too tiring either.
The ticket for the Humble Administrator's Garden is 70 yuan. We arrived at 7:40. Because it's not a holiday, there weren't many people early, and it wasn't too hot. It's really beautiful step by step. After strolling for 2 hours, it was just 9:30 for shopping, and then caught up with the museum opening. When we came out, there were more people. So I suggest going early.
Started visiting the Suzhou Museum at 9:40, it's so beautiful, the architecture is very distinctive. If you're tired, you can rest at the koi pond in the middle, the breeze is very cool. Visited the museum for 1.5 hours, came out at 11:00.
Then took a taxi to Xiyuan Temple, the ticket is 15 yuan, strolled for 2 hours. It is said that Xiyuan Temple is also the Cat Temple. Arrived at Xiyuan Temple at 11:30, just in time for lunch. Ate vegetarian buns and vegetarian noodles, both were delicious. After dinner, strolled around, there really are a lot of little cats and pigeons. The cats are not afraid of people at all, many people are feeding the cats cat sticks. After visiting Xiyuan Temple, it was almost 13:30.
The next stop was walking to the Lingering Garden, the ticket is 45 yuan. Arrived at the Lingering Garden at 13:50, strolled until 15:10. It's not as big as the Humble Administrator's Garden, but the scenery is also nice, very photogenic.
The last stop was Shantang Street. It's not big but crowded. Ate Jiang Laozao. We arrived early, and were waiting for the lights all evening. The lights didn't come on until 18:47 because the lighting time is different every day, so we could only squat. But it was also quite beautiful.
Ate dinner at Hongxinlou, the Suzhou-style dishes were quite good. Back at the hotel, I ordered Grandma's mung bean soup, which didn't taste as good as Sujinji.
The next morning, I took the bus to Wuzhen. The Suzhou two-day tour ended perfectly.
🔴 One of Suzhou City's "cultural business cards". It is located at the intersection of Pingjiang Road and Renmin Road. It is a region that integrates business, culture and history. 🔵 Guanqian Street, similar to Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street in Shanghai, is also a bit like Shanghai's Chenghuang Temple. It integrates snacks, meals, shopping, and local specialties. You can stay for a day for eating and shopping!
Guanqian Street is a famous commercial street in Suzhou, named because of the Xuanmiao view in the street. Guanqian Street is a pedestrian street. There are many old Suzhou restaurants and shops on the street, and there are also decent shopping malls here. The street is wide and not very crowded. The eunuch next to it is also a place where various snacks are gathered. To Suzhou, you must go to Guanqian Street for a stroll.
Guanqian Street is located in the center of Suzhou Ancient City, covering an area of 0.52 square kilometers, with prosperous business in the region, famous shops, and many monuments. It has an irreplaceable central role in the modern city construction pattern of Suzhou "East Yuanxi District, the ancient city is in the middle, one and two wings". Xuanmiaoguan is located in the center of Guanqian Street, founded in Xianning, Xijin, in the second year (276), the first name is Zhenqing Taoist Temple. Yuan Chengzong Yuanzhen Yuanyuan Year (1295), began to be called Xuanmiaoguan. Xuanmiaoguan has 10 scenes such as Zhengshanmen, Sanqing Palace, Temple of Wealth, Wenchang Palace, "Miao Yitongyuan", Tongdian Temple, Yunmu Ancient Well, Dingding Stone Railroad, One step Three Bridges, No-word Monument, Laozi like Monument. Guanqian Street is named for its location in front of "Xuanmiao View". Its name has been more than 150 years of history, has been to gather Daoxiang Village, Gantaixiang, Huangtianyuan and other famous and characteristic 100-year-old shops are famous in the world; the food street located in Bifengfang - eunuch is known as Subang cuisine in the south of the Yangtze River. Suzhou Guanqian Street gathers snacks from all over the place, and Huang Tianyuan next to Xuanmiao View has special snacks: cakes, mint cakes, rose pine cakes, lard rice cakes, various cakes, green rice dumplings, crab powder cages, wine cakes, sugar rice cakes, dried tofu, plum cakes, seagull cakes, etc.
Suzhou Guanqian Street is composed of six functional partitions, each partition has one to two core facilities such as comprehensive malls as "core", and a series of auxiliary facilities such as professional shops as "wings" to form a "core with wings" layout.
Guanqian Street has a small building volume, forming a low building outline, and the architectural color is mainly black, white and gray. The main street of Guanqian Street is distributed with shopping malls and time-honored shops. The catering industry is mainly concentrated in the eunuch area, and the entertainment and leisure places are mainly concentrated in the Qiao Sikong Lane area.