Humble Administrator's Garden: Located atNo. 178, Northeast Street of Loumen, it is the largest and most famous garden in Suzhou. The Humble Administrator's Garden was built in the Ming Dynasty, and Wang was the first owner of the Garden. During Jiajing and Zhengde years, he lived in the official residence to supervise the empire. Dissatisfied with his official career in his later years, he dismissed from office and returned to his hometown. He bought land to build a garden and named it Humble Administrator's Garden by borrowing the meaning of "My Humble Administrator's Garden" in "Idle Residence Fu". The main attractions in the park are: Lan Xuetang, Furong Pavilion, Xiangxiang Pavilion, Kuangjian Pavilion, Yuanxiangtang, Xiaocanglang, Liuting Pavilion and Fucui Pavilion.
Transportation: Take lines 1, 2 and 5, get off at Humble Administrator's Garden Station 2 and 3, and walk eastward 100 meters.
Admission: peak season (3.1-5.31; 9.1-11.30) 70 yuan; Low season (6.1-8.31; 12. 1-2.29) 50 yuan. Free Rhododendron Festival and Lotus Festival are held in two peak seasons respectively.
Opening hours: 8: 15- 17: 30.
Lion Forest: Located at No.23 Garden Road in the northeast of the city, it was built by Zen Master Tian Ru, a monk in the Yuan Dynasty, in memory of his teacher, monk Zhongfeng. Lion Forest has the largest existing ancient rockery group in China. There are many exquisite rockeries on the lake, which are beautiful and dance like lions. They are called "Rockery Kingdom" and "Eighteen Scenes of Taoyuan". The highest peak in the garden is Lion Peak, and there are other famous peaks such as Han Hui and Tuyue. These buildings include Li Xue Hall, Sleeping Cloud Room, Bai Xuan and Mei Wen Pavilion.
Reminder: You can travel with Suzhou Folk Museum and Coin Museum. One hundred meters north along Garden Road is Humble Administrator's Garden.
Transportation: Take the 1, 2 and 5 lines, and take the 2, 3, 4, 40, 70 1 lines.
Admission: peak season (3.1-5.31; 9.1-11.30) 30 yuan; Low season (6.1-8.31; 12. 1-2.29) 20 yuan.
Tiger Hill: It is the landmark landscape of Suzhou, and is known as "the first scene in Wuzhong". Suzhou was the capital of Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period, and He Lv, the king of Wu, was buried in Tiger Hill after his death. When Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, was a secretariat in Suzhou, he dug mountains to divert water and built dikes for seven miles to make the scenery of Tiger Hill more beautiful. Su Shi, a poet in the Song Dynasty, once said, "It is a pity not to visit Suzhou Tiger Hill." When evaluating the characteristics of Tiger Hill, the ancients once put forward the theory of "Nine Suits", arguing that Tiger Hill should be suitable for the moon, snow, rain, smoke, Yichun Xiao, summer, autumn, falling trees and sunset.
The main landscapes in the park are: the world-famous leaning tower-Tiger Hill, "the third spring in the world", Broken Beam Hall, Cold Spring, Sword Trial Stone, Sword Pond, Cuiyong Mountain Villa, Wanjing Mountain Villa and so on.
Transportation: Take bus 1, bus 2, and bus 8, bus 49.
Admission: peak season (3.1-5.31; 9.1-11.30) 60 yuan; Low season (6.1-8.31; 12. 1-2.29) 40 yuan. The flower show and the temple fair are held in two peak seasons respectively.
Lingering Garden: One of the four famous gardens in China, it was founded in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. Qingganlong was acquired by Liu Shu in the late Qing Dynasty, and was renamed Hanbi Villa after expansion, which was called "Liuyuan". In the early years of Guangxu, Sheng Kang, an official, bought this garden, absorbed the strengths of various gardens in Suzhou, rebuilt it and renamed it Liuyuan.
Lingering Garden is divided into four scenic spots: China, East, West and North. The scenic spots are connected by an arc corridor more than 700 meters long. There are more than 300 calligraphy and stone carvings of famous artists in the past dynasties embedded in the two walls of the promenade, which is called "Lingering Garden Fa Tie". Under the veranda, there are glistening walls and leaking windows, and the pattern is exquisite. Looking from the flower wall, the pavilion in the mountain pool looms among the flowers and trees, like a picture scroll of painters, which has a unique interest.
Transportation: Take the 1 and 2 lines, and take the 1 1 road.
Admission: peak season (3.1-5.31; 9.1-11.30) 40 yuan; Low season (6.1-8.31; 12. 1-2.29) 30 yuan. During the peak season, the performance of Wu Biao Lan Xun is provided free of charge.
Opening hours: 7: 30- 17: 00.
Saionji: Xiatang Street, located outside Jinmen, Suzhou, not far from the west side of Liuyuan Garden, is the general name of Fayuan Temple and Xiyuan Release Pond in Zhuang Jie.
The temple was built in the first year of Yuan Dynasty (1264- 1294), and its real name is Guiyuan Temple. There are four major buildings: the Heavenly King Hall, the Ursa Major Hall, the Five Hundred Arhats Hall, the Guanyin Hall, and the Tibetan Scripture Building. Among them, Luohantang has outstanding characteristics. In the center of the main hall, there is a goddess of mercy with a height of 13, carved from a whole camphor tree. Not far from it, there is a special Buddha statue with four different faces on each side, which is said to represent four famous Buddhist mountains and their main gods, namely Manjusri Bodhisattva of Wutai Mountain, Bodhisattva of Jiuhua Mountain, Bodhisattva of Emei Mountain and Guanyin Bodhisattva of Putuo Mountain. There are potbellied statues of Maitreya Buddha, Hanshan and Picked Up, Guan Gong and Wei Tuo in the temple, among which the most famous ones are "Jigong" and "Jigong", which are amazing and can be called masterpieces.
The release pond in Xiyuan is also very charming. There are many fish and turtles in the pond, most of which were released by Buddhists. Among them, five-color carp can be compared with Yuquan in Hangzhou. There is also a giant salamander in the pool, which is over 300 years old. It only appears in hot weather.
Transportation: Take lines 1, 2 and 3, and take bus 6, 10,1,17.
Admission: 25 yuan.
Hanshan Temple: Located on the edge of Qiaofeng outside Gusu City, it was built in the Six Dynasties and has a history of 1400 years. During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, it was renamed Hanshan Temple. The main buildings in the temple are: Daxiong Hall, Xiandian (Piandian Hall), Tibetan Scripture Building, Monument Gallery, Bell Tower, Fengjiang Building, etc. There is a bronze bell on the right side of the Hall of Ursa Major given by a Japanese friend, which was cast by a group of craftsmen such as Kobayashi Cheng Yi in 1906. This clock consists of two pieces, one in Guanshan Temple in Japan and the other in Hanshan Temple, and it has been well preserved so far.
Reminder: You can visit nearby scenic spots, such as Qiao Feng and Tielingguan.
Transportation: Take bus No.3, No.3, No.6, No.9, 17, No.21and No.31and get off at Qiao Feng Station.
Admission: 15 yuan/person, exhibition hall 5 yuan/person, joint ticket 20 yuan/person, bell tower 5 yuan (3 times).
Wang Garden: Located at Kuanjiatou Lane, Daichengqiao Road 1 1, it is a typical house garden in Qing Dynasty. It turns out that during the Southern Song Dynasty (1174-1189), the official assistant minister Shi was dismissed and built a house. He claimed to be in thousands of books, and named the garden "Wanjuantang" and "Yuyuan Garden". During the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, Song Zongyuan, a teenager of Guanglu Temple, built a villa in the former site of Wanjuantang, formerly known as Wangyuan, as a place for his mother to raise relatives. "Net" refers to fishermen and fishermen. The park covers an area of 5,400 square meters and consists of three parts: the mansion in the east, the main garden in the middle and the inner garden in the west. The main landscapes in the park are: sedan chair hall, hall, ladder room, moon pavilion, temple spring courtyard and so on. 198 1 Xuan Ming, the courtyard of China, built in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was designed and built based on the "Dianchun" courtyard of the park.
The most special place in Master Wang's garden is the night garden. Folk art programs such as Kunqu Opera, Pingtan, Jiangnan Sizhu, Guzheng and Flute were staged in different halls in the park. Because the performance has the characteristics of southern China, and the environment is a famous Suzhou garden night scene, it helps tourists to understand the culture of Wudi to a certain extent, so it is very popular with tourists at home and abroad.
Canglang Pavilion: The oldest garden in Suzhou, which was originally the billiard hall of Wang Guangling in wuyue in the Five Dynasties. Canglang Pavilion is famous for its quietness and simplicity. It combines the rockery in the park with the pool water outside the park. There is a cloister between the rockery and the pool water, and there is a flower window on the wall of the cloister, which communicates with the water outside the mountain through the leakage of the scenery. It is said that there are 108 kinds of flower windows in the whole garden, which are typical Suzhou garden flower windows with diverse patterns and exquisite structure.
Canglang Pavilion is engraved with the word "Canglang Pavilion" written by Yu Yue, a master of park studies in the Qing Dynasty, and is located at the highest place in the fake Shandong. The architectural style is simple and the structural form is very harmonious with the whole garden atmosphere. On the stone pillars on both sides, there is a pair of stone couplets: "The breeze and the bright moon are priceless, and there is love near the water and distant mountains."
Yiyuan Garden: Located in the middle section of Renmin Road in the city center, it is a private garden built by Gu Wenbin, a rich gentleman in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty. The eastern half was originally the former residence of the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, and the western half was expanded by Gu. The east and the west are separated by a corridor, and the wall of the corridor is decorated with flower windows. From the flower window, the landscape on the east and west sides is particularly deep and tortuous.
Transportation: take 1 and 4 lines, and take 1, 8, 9, 20, 2 1, 38, 46, 68,10/,102,/.
Admission: 15 yuan, free for licensed soldiers.
Panmen: Located in the southwest corner of Suzhou ancient city wall, there are the famous "Three Scenes of Panmen" Ruiguang Pagoda, Wumen Bridge and Panmen Building.
The existing Ruiguang Pagoda is a brick pagoda in the Northern Song Dynasty, with a height of 43.2 meters, 7 floors and 8 sides, consisting of an outer wall, a cloister and a tower center. Precious cultural relics have been found many times in the Ruiguang Tower. 1963 Two wooden buddhas were found on the tower wall on the first floor, and a stone Buddha was taken out from the tower center on the third floor, as well as some cultural relics such as brick carvings and inscriptions during the Xiangfu period in Dazhong. 1978, more than *** 100 volumes of relic architecture, Guanyin, Tathagata bronze statue, woodcut printing and blue paper gold book were found in the third-floor tower brick niche, which were cultural relics from the Five Dynasties to the Northern Song Dynasty.
Transportation: Take Line 2 and Line 5, and get off at Panmen Scenic Spot Station on Line 7, 30, 70 1. 200 meters west of Taihua Commercial Building on Renmin Road, you can also reach Panmen Scenic Area.
Admission: 25 yuan, free pingtan performance.
Opening hours: 8: 00- 16: 45.
Entertainment:
Suzhou Amusement Park, known as "Oriental Disney", has high-tech characteristics of international modern amusement and profound cultural connotation. In it, you can not only appreciate the colorful and gorgeous European and American elegance, but also feel the natural and rich oriental sentiment. The essence of Chinese and western cultures is like a breeze, refreshing.
After several years of renovation, Guanqian Street and Shiquan Street in Suzhou have become modern commercial streets integrating entertainment, catering, sightseeing and shopping, and now they are the must-see places for domestic and foreign tourists to visit Suzhou.
Catering:
The famous Soviet-style specialty dishes are sweet and sour mandarin fish, shark's fin in clear soup, sesame oil eel paste, watermelon chicken, whole chicken with mother oil, Taihu water shield soup, emerald shrimp bucket, stewed lotus and so on. Suzhou snacks are also world famous. Dried bean curd with honey sauce, pine nut sugar, rose melon seeds, shrimp paste, jujube paste sesame cake, lard rice cake, etc. They are all well-known delicacies and must be tasted.
"Deyuelou" and "Songhelou" are old-fashioned Soviet-style restaurants; "Old Suzhou Tea Restaurant" is famous for its traditional Subang cuisine. "Zhu Hongxing Noodle Restaurant" and "Green Poplar Wonton" are inexpensive and suitable for mass consumption. The main food streets in Suzhou are eunuch lane, shiquan street, bachelor street, Jiayufang, Fenghuang street, Ganjiang road and Shilu Jinmen Shangshi food street.
Transportation:
Several bus stations in the south, north and west of Suzhou have high-speed trains to Shanghai every day, with the most buses in the North Station, which runs every 20 minutes on average. The fare is 26-30 yuan, and the travel time is about 1 hour 20 minutes. Shanghai has Hengfeng Road, Hutai Road, Xujiahui Hongqiao Road, Pudong Bailianjing and other places. It is recommended to ask clearly when purchasing tickets and choose a station near the destination.
Taxi: Starting price 10 yuan (3km). After 3 kilometers, the unit price per kilometer is 1.8 yuan, and after 5 kilometers, 50% idle driving fee will be charged. The 5-minute waiting time is free. If it exceeds 5 minutes, every 5 minutes is equivalent to 1 km. After 23: 00, the fare (starting price) will rise by 30%. Some scenic spots in Suzhou are in the alley, so the car can't reach the door directly. At this time, tricycle is the best means of transportation. The starting price of tricycles is 2 yuan, with an additional 2 yuan per kilometer, and 5 yuan per person per hour when chartered.
Suzhou has many scenic spots. Riding a bicycle through the streets and alleys, visiting the ancient times and exploring the secluded places, you will definitely indulge in the artistic conception of "a small bridge with flowing water". There are many car rental agencies in Pingmen Bridge on the east side of the railway station. The approximate price is: 2 yuan within 4 hours, 3 yuan within 5-6 hours, and 5 yuan for one day. I need an ID card and a deposit.
Accommodation:
In go on road trip, there are many luxury villas near Tianping Mountain and along Taihu Lake, and the prices are also cheap. Generally, the rent for a double-decker villa is around 400-600 yuan per day.
Of course, for those tourists who want to save money, it is quite easy to find a clean and cheap hostel. You can find 100 yuan "standard rooms" everywhere in the streets of the city. For example, the sports bureau guest house on Wu 30 Road is more comfortable.
Shopping:
Suzhou embroidery is the first tourist souvenir when shopping in Suzhou. Suzhou embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Sichuan embroidery and Guangdong embroidery are also called the four famous embroideries in China. Suzhou Biluochun Tea is one of the top ten famous teas in China, and it is a good gift for relatives and friends. There are also Suzhou Jin Song, Taohuawu woodcut New Year pictures and Su Fan, all of which are local specialties. In addition, Suzhou dried bean curd is also a famous local specialty snack, so you might as well buy some to share with your family.
Guanqian Street in Suzhou is a famous commercial pedestrian street integrating entertainment, catering and sightseeing. There are sightseeing buses (1 yuan/person) running on the street. Shitou Road outside Nagato and Huaihai Street in the new district are also famous business districts. In addition, Shiquan Street is a tourist souvenir street, Pishi Street is a flower and bird market, and Huqiu Road and Railway Station are wedding dresses and photographic equipment streets, all of which are good places for shopping.
"China Pearl City" in Hejiawan, Tang Wei Town is a large pearl trading center, which can be reached directly by taking bus No.83 or 12 and bus No.84 at Suzhou Railway Station.
Travel tips:
Signature dishes: Pufei soup, white sauce, abalone, shrimp and sweet and sour mandarin fish watermelon chicken.
Specialty: Biluochun Tea, Caizhizhai Candy, Jin Song Su-style Cake, Su-style Candy, Su Xiu Taicang Rousong Taihu Silverfish Taohuawu Woodcut New Year Pictures.
Reminder: Most scenic spots in Suzhou are closed before 17: 30, and holidays are no exception. If it is a self-help tour, you should pay special attention to this and arrange your time reasonably.
Suzhou Tourism Festival:
Xishan Taihu Plum Blossom Festival March 1- 10
Tiger Hill Flower Show from March to May
Rhododendron Festival in Humble Administrator's Garden from March to June
April's Jiaozhi Watertown Costume Culture Festival
Fairy Temple Fair in Nanhao Street in May
July-August Humble Administrator's Garden Lotus Festival
Huqiu Temple Fair September -65438+ 10
China Silk Tourism Festival from September 20th to 25th.
Suzhou Tianping Hongfeng Festival 165438+ October
Hanshan Temple listens to the bell on New Year's Eve from 23: 00 on February 3 1 Sunday.