The West Lake Universe merges nature’s beauty with fashionable elements, history with modern. It is an international leisure area of world-famous restaurants, retail stores, cultures and entertainments. Starbucks, Chamate and Haagen-Dazs have entered the place and set up their shops here. 147 Nanshan Road Bus 4, Y1 and Y9
Liangzhu Culture Museum It is a museum to exhibit Liangzhu Culture – a prehistoric culture of 5300-4200 years ago at Taihu Lake Drainage Basin. About 400 pieces of ware are being exhibited. The first hall shows the content and range of the culture, the second one displays fine jade articles, and the third one is […]
Eat the delicious food Historical and Cultural Strip. Hefang Street Hefang Street, or Qinghefang, is a historical and cultural strip and an epitome of Hangzhou’s past. It witnessed a good many teahouses, drug stores and silk stores established in the Southern Song Dynasty. Today some old and reputable businesses still exite, such as Hu Qing […]
Music Fountain The large dancing music fountain is 126m long at Hubin. It exhibits great momentum when spraying water. It changes its position high above the ground and dance with music of China and other countries. It maiks the West Lake more beautiful at night. K7, Y9, Y1 Gushing Time (Every Show lasts 15 minutes), […]
Jiangchu Dragon Boat Race The race can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty of a few hundred years ago. When it comes to the Dragon Boat Festival every year, dragon boats, big or small, will collect at Shentankou Village, Jiangcun, to compete against each other. In the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Qian Long named the […]
Museum of Guanyao Kiln of Southern Song Dynasty The Guanyao Kiln (the official kiln) of the Southern Song Dynasty tops the five major official kilns of China. It is the first museum on the theme of ceramics which was built on the original site. It focuses on the Guanyao Kiln of the Southern Song Dynasty, […]
China Grand Canal Museum China Grand Canal Museum is a large themed museum on the Grand Canal Culture. It is divided into the Preface Hall and four other exhibition halls, namely “he Construction and Evolution of the Grand Canal”, “he Utilization of the Grand Canal”, “he Cities along the Grand Canal ” and “he Canal […]
Former Residence of Yu Qian Yu Qian (1398-1457) was a well-known strategist, statesman and national hero of the Ming Dynasty in China. Today, “Zhongsu Hall” (the hall of loyalty and solemnity) and “Sixian Pavilion”(the pavilion to memorize the man of virtue) and the ancient well are reconstructed. The former relics to display the life of […]
The China Int’l West Lake Wedding Ceremony Dahongying The China Int’l The China Int’l West Lake Wedding Ceremony Dahongying will see its ninth tenth this year. Beginning in 1999, it has been added to the West Lake Expo as a program. The West Lake Wedding Ceremony 2008 includes three chapters, namely the Romantic Tip, the […]
The West Lake Pedestrian Festival is a symbol that means the Hangzhou way of leisure and boy building and a vehicle that carries tourists to the further understanding of the West Lake. It has been a Sino-Japanese exchange program since 2004, where the participants, Chinese and Japanese, walk around the West Lake. Japanese tourists can […]