20 Tips to Avoid Pitfalls When Visiting Suzhou in March
1️⃣ It's currently 2-15°C in Suzhou🌡️, with significant temperature differences between day and night due to the late spring cold. Remember to bring warm clothes🧥
2️⃣ For Suzhou gardens, besides the Humble Administrator's Garden, you can also visit the Couple's Retreat Garden and the Master of Nets Garden this season. The plum and magnolia blossoms are just right🌸
3️⃣ If it's your first time taking a night tour🌃 of the gardens, I recommend the Master of Nets Garden, which features live Kunqu opera performances.
4️⃣ You must book the Suzhou Museum in advance!! It's currently by timed reservation, at least 2 days ahead!🕐
5️⃣ The Suzhou Museum is closed on Mondays, and entry stops at 4 pm. Opening hours are from 9 am to 5 pm🕐
6️⃣ Pingjiang Road is next to the Humble Administrator's Garden, a hotspot for gourmet food🍜. To be honest, the bamboo tube milk tea is just for good photos.
7️⃣ On Pingjiang Road, you can take a ride on a sculling oared boat for 40r/person💰, with the trip lasting about half an hour🕐. I recommend going at dusk when the lights and shadows of the oars create the most romantic atmosphere.
8️⃣ Teacher Wu Liangying's Suzhou Pingtan can be found at the 'Pipa Language Pingtan Teahouse' on Pingjiang Road, with 5 shows in the afternoon and 3 in the evening. You need to queue on-site to choose the showtime and seats. If you're in a hurry, I suggest going early to book⚠️
9️⃣ Next to the 'Suzhou' log on Pingjiang Road is the Seven Percent Sweet. You can directly navigate there🧭
1️⃣0️⃣ For night views🌃 on Shantang Street, it's best to arrive around 5 pm🕐, as dusk is the most beautiful.
1️⃣1️⃣ Shantang Street is free, and it's a 3-minute walk🕐 from Exit 3 of Shantang Street on Subway🚇 Line 2.
1️⃣2️⃣ Suzhou doesn't have an airport🈚️. Suzhou Station is in the city center, closest to the Humble Administrator's Garden, Suzhou Museum, and Pingjiang Road.
1️⃣3️⃣ The ancient towns around Suzhou are a bit far from the city center, but Mudu Ancient Town and Tongli Ancient Town are accessible by subway🚇.
1️⃣4️⃣ If you're visiting the ancient towns, I suggest setting aside a whole day🕐. You can stay in the town and I recommend taking a covered boat🚢.
1️⃣5️⃣ When visiting Suzhou, I recommend cycling. Buy a 'Suzhou Hand-drawn Cycling Map' to experience the local atmosphere🎆.
1️⃣6️⃣ If you want to eat vegetarian noodle dishes in Suzhou, I recommend going to Xiyuan Temple, with prices at 10/15r💰 per bowl.
1️⃣7️⃣ For a proper meal🍜, I suggest going to Qian Yuman. A nostalgic restaurant near Shantang Street, it's a rising hotspot with must-try dishes:
✅ Signature Bamboo Net Duck
✅ Tri-color Shrimp Tofu
✅ Grandma's Braised Egg and Pork Knuckle
✅ Peach Blossom Ten Miles Wine
1️⃣8️⃣ Eslite Bookstore📖 is at Jinji Lake and has Suzhou's most beautiful staircase.
1️⃣9️⃣ For Suzhou cuisine🍜, I recommend going to the Shuangta Market, a popular food market with lots of delicious and affordable options.
2️⃣0️⃣ For travel, I recommend using the subway🚇, especially on weekends and holidays when Suzhou can really get congested.
Ctrip is on-site to buy, ticket prices are favorable, satisfaction is very, very satisfied, it is worthwhile to travel. Happy New Year, everyone is rich. The garden is connected from the old street, and it takes half an hour to three quarters of an hour. There are tour groups on basic holidays to listen to the tour guide. If you have Hanfu or something to shoot travel photography in it, it is beautiful. The whole garden basically represents the characteristics of Suzhou gardens, because it was during the Chinese New Year, and the famous Humble Administrator's Garden was specially avoided. Anyway, just find a garden to stroll around, relax, the scenery here is also very good, the key tickets are cheap. Save the ticket money for a sudden, sugar water, milk tea, coffee, and drink. The whole yard is well maintained and worthy of being selected to the Mingyuan of historical and cultural heritage in 2000. The old street next door is too famous now... It takes a long time to queue for something to eat. I really hope it is not so hot. I sigh again that there are so many people in China.
Pillow wave double hidden place, Pingjiang Coupling Garden love. On the fourth day of Suzhou, after visiting the Humble Administrator's Garden early in the morning, I entered Pingjiang Road from the north exit, all the way from north to south, after watching Dai Wangshu's clove lane writing "Rain Lane", turn left in another alley, along the river to the east, to the south gate of the Coupling Garden. Compared with the Humble Administrator's Garden, the Coupling Garden is a bit less noisy and a little more quiet. There are fewer tourists here, but there is only a pair of young men and women wearing Hanfu doing travel photography. It is said that because the Coupling Garden symbolizes love, it has become a must-choice place for couples and wedding photos. Because there are few tourists, you can really take a leisurely stroll in the courtyard, and slowly stop to enjoy its pillow waves, the old house with curtains, the city curve grass hall, and the double mountains. And there is enough time and space to read those profound connections. I personally like these pictures: also Xuanzhai's "I am looking for a companion book in my leisure, and I can't sleep the most peacefully outside my body." Xuan Yin's double mountain "Free to the city, as if between the mountains and rivers." Chengqu Caotang's "Worshiping Stone Tingtao is full of fir pine, open the door to see the rain and a plantain sound." Of course, "Couple Garden live in Jiacoup, City Quzhu Poetry City." It is also the footnote and portrait of the entire Couple Garden. There is also an interesting thing, there are several rooms on the second floor of the garden, and there is a sign of "Marriage Registry". Young men and women who want to fall in love can register marriage in the couple garden, and it is really interesting to determine that the goodness of a hundred years is really interesting.
Before going to Suzhou, I made a guide and said that the gardens don’t have to go. The photos of the Coupling Garden on Xiaohongshu are very artistic. The result may be that it is fake on May 1st and it is noon. There are a lot of people. It has disappeared all of a sudden. Some of the photos of Jimei are actually stepped on the fake stone, so there are not many photos that can be taken. But some of the layouts are also very nice
It is very beautiful, it is a little small, the moral is good, there are many beautiful women who come to take wedding photos, and you can also apply for marriage licenses, and the environment is clean.
The three-way park faces the river and along the street, the total area of the park is about 8,000 square meters. The layout of the park is centered on the four-way hall of the house, and the two-way park and the house are connected by heavy buildings. It is divided into three parts: the middle hall, the west flower hall and the east garden. [7] The East Garden is large, covering an area of about 4 mu, with the layout mainly of mountains and the characteristics of the pool. There are three small courtyards in the southeast corner, which are always called "Chengqu Caotang". The West Garden is small in size, with the study "woven curtain old house" as the center, separated into two small courtyards before and after, the front yard has lake rock rockery, the backyard has lake rock flower bed, and the garden has a library. The landscape in the park "Yellowstone rockery" is built before the Chengqu Caotang building hall.