As a new member of transportation, Hangzhou metro is popular in the people who live along the metro line and tourists. Go to work, go to play, people find taking a metro is a convenient way to move in the city. However, useful things can be interesting. You can take metro as a express delivery for send you directly to a weekend place.

By: Wantao Lin 131105238 Class 4

Let’s follow me to take this express train.

1. Xianghu Station: You can take subway to this station, and go to Xiang Lake, which is called West Lake’s sisters lake. West Lake is more in water, while water, mountains, trees and bridges collocated together in Xiang Lake. Nothing would be better than it. You can walk, or take a bicycle, along the road, the road is not wide, and with lake on the left and mountains on the right. Just wander, maybe you will come across a bridge, or slide into a side path, and to find a new view, like a surprise. Nothing would be better. Compared with West Lake, Xiang Lake is more crude and natural, and is quieter. You can also go to amusement park, such as Hangzhou amusement park or Hangzhou World Leisure Expo Garden. They are close in that area. The gardens are so big that you can play in it whole day long.

Fee: Xiang Lake, good things are free, it’s no entrance tickets.

Route: To Xianghu, you can take bus No.344 to Yuefenglou Station or No.405 to Yaoliwu Station and walk for a while. To Hangzhou World Leisure Expo Garden, you can take bus No.714 to Xishan tunnel station.

 

2. Xixing Station: It’s near the Xixing Ancient Town. Just as many ancient towns, Xixing Ancient Towns has wonderful old buildings and a specific atmosphere, but it was more quiet and pure. What’s more, this town is the end of The Grand Canal from Beijing to Hangzhou, it bear too much weight of Hangzhou’s history.

Fee: it’s no entrance tickets.

Route: After you get out of the metro station, you are in the town.

 

3. Ding’ an Station& Longxiangqiao Station: Shopping, shopping, and shopping! You will find this theme after you get out to the ground. It’s a good place to go shopping. There are many shopping malls such as Intime department store, Jiebai commercial and other shops. You can shop there as you want. Another choice is Hefang Street, it has different shopping experience from above. In the evening, it’s a good idea to hang about the Wushan night market. Except shopping, you can visit Fenghuang Temple. What’s more, Longxiang Bridge Station is not far from the West Lake, you can go to the west lake in few minutes.

 

4. West Lake Culture Square Station: Near the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, there located the West Lake Culture Square. The square is circular, in the middle is opening, half of it is around by the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. In a bridge on the Grand Canal, there was an amazing sculpture. The sculpture is long and is lied on the ground, be carved with a long groove, it’s obvious that the grove shape the shape of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. The groove is not simple, in the groove it can be seen the typical scenery of the canal’s bank from Hangzhou to Beijing. It’s elaborate so it may catch your eyes. If visit museums are high on your agenda, you can’t miss it. Zhejiang Museum of natural history, Zhejiang province science and Technology Museum, Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Zhejiang culture and Art Center and so on, are exciting with hearing such many name? You can get to all this easily in this station. They are on the West Lake Culture Square.
More: Tips: Museums are free, but pay attention to their open time.

 

5. Gaosha Road Station: Gaosha road is the heaven of cates. Full of many kinds of restaurants, Gaosha Road contents you various requirement of foods. Rice or noodles, western or eastern, southern or northern, and some special kind of foods can be found there. If you get off the subway at this station, just prepare your empty stomach and open your mouth to eat.

 

 6. Linping Station: Linping Park is where you can go. Linping Park is not an open area in the flat ground. It is on the Linping Mountain. On one side of a narrow road, the word LINPING PARK is not conspicuous, as there grows trees around. Walk up the footstep that behind the trees, and you will see an open lawn suddenly. The melody of absolute music flows with every step of your foot. Because many voice boxes disturbuted in plants all around the park. Not only the music played, you can also hear the voice of nature, for example, the birds singing, or the leaves in trees making sounds when winds blowing. The most impressing thing is that trees with its branches and leaves separate the sky from you, that means you look up and you will see trees but not directly sky when you are walking in the paths. Sometimes you are in a piece of lawn, it’s like a green cloud move away and you can see the sky. If you back to walk in the paths, you are under the green cloud again, which is full of the smell of nature. You also can find joy in Jiangnan Culture Museum, getting knowledge of jiangnan culture.

More: Route: Take bus No.763 to Linping park station.

 

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