Hangzhou Nightlife
As a modern metropolis, the nightlife of Hangzhou is vigorous and fascinating. After daytime excursions to lakes and mountains in Hangzhou, tourists can get wholly relaxed at night. If you prefer a quiet and relaxing night, you may choose to walk along the lake shoreline which is dotted with benches accompanied by dweeping willow trees.
Hangzhou is like a melting pot which assimilates various cultures from various countries including some foreign countries. And as the typical representative of its rich culture, pubs & bars here are enchanting and fascinating to many tourists. There are many kinds of pubs, bars and teahouses to the tastes of different tourists, mainly clustered in Nanshan Road and Hubin Road.
We sum up some top things to do at night in Hangzhou. And we also do hope to receive your version of Hangzhou nightlfie after your Hangzhou tour.
Top 1: Night Stroll along the lake shoreline of West Lake
West Lake is at its best when it is brilliantly lit in the evening on weekends or public holidays. People are intoxicated by the neon-lit boats plying on the lake, the firy pagodas, the illuminated mountains, the starry causeways and dream-like lakeshores. You will have a lot of photography opportunity and at the same time you should prepare for possible crowds and people watch due to a lot of foot traffic.
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Check out: Illuminated West Lake in Hangzhou and Night View of West Lake in Hangzhou
Hangzhou ‘s West Lake dominates the psyche of the locals, even the whole nation of China and the Chinese around the world as well. West Lake epitomes the Chinese classic gardening, now a mix of traditional Chinese landscape and modern urban cityscape.
Top 2: West Lake Musical Fountains in Hangzhou
Water splashing from the lake surface and beautiful songs and music dancing with the splashing water, the well-known musical water fountain in Hangzhou.
Experts says that there over 400 small fountains of this musical fountains with nozzles sending beautiful patterns of water which are choreographed to music.
Each water musical fountains show takes about 15 minutes with over 14 songs or music.
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Check out: Musical Fountains in Hangzhou
Weekday (Monday to Friday): 10:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 18:00, 18:30, 19:00, 19:30
Weekend (Saturday and Sunday) 10:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 18:00, 18:30, 19:00, 19:30, 20:00, 20:3
The west bank of West Lake has an official Chinese name – 湖傧 (Hubin, or lakeside). Hubin or the lakeside comprises six parks, namely First Park, Second Park, Third Park, Fourth Park, Fifth Park and Sixth Park.
The popular West Lake Musical Water fountain is located in the third park of Hubin (Lakeside).
Top 3： Hangzhou’s Best Bars & Nightclubs
If you are a bar or pub lover, Hangzhou will not let you down. Just like each major city has its own unique streets of pub, as a world famous leisure city, Hangzhou is not lagged behind in this regard. Among the numerous bar and pub streets in Hangzhou, Nanshan Lu (or Nanshan Road) Bar Street is one of the best in terms of location, architecture, quality and taste.
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Check out: Hangzhou’s Best Bars & Nightclubs
Among the numerous bar and pub streets in Hangzhou, Nanshan Lu (or Nanshan Road) Bar Street is one of the best in terms of location, architecture, quality and taste. Some of the bars and nightclubs on Nanshan Road Bar Street are high-level villas built during the 1920s featuring western architecture.
Top 4: Wushan Night Market in Hangzhou
If you’d like to kill 1-2 hour at night on your Hangzhou tour Wushan Night Market is one of your best choices. Wushan Night Market is mainly located on the north-south Huixing Road (惠兴路) which meets the east-west Renhe Road (仁和路) on the north for a T junction and Youdian Road (邮电) on the south again for a T road. So you may enter the night market (Huixing Road 惠兴路) from Renhe Road and Youdian Road.
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Check out： Wushan Night Market in Hangzhou
Wushan Night Market, as its name suggests, a temporary market, only exists at nightfall. Connected stalls are lined up along the roads, busy and bustling. Just get yourself lost in the crowd for 1-2 hour and hunt for the best deals. Don’t forget to haggle hard.
Top 5. Evening Shopping at Pedestrian Streets in Hangzhou
In China, some major cities have nice carefree shopping streets teemed with exciting lights, shopping and entertainment such Beijing Wangfujing Pedestrian Street, Shanghai Nanjing Road, Chengdu Kuan zhai Xiang Zi, Chongqing Ciqi Kou , Lanzhou Zhangye Street etc.
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Check out: Pedestrian Streets in Hangzhou
Hangzhou is no exception. Hangzhou has several walking only streets including Hefang Street (also named Qinghefang Street) and Zhongshan Road ( also named “the Royal Street of the Southern Song Dynasty”.
Top 6: Night View of Grand Canal Hangzhou
We’d like to share with you the pictures of the night view and scenes of Grand Canal Hangzhou. A night walking tour along the illuminated shorelines of the waterway allows you to see the perfect fusion of the past and present, antiquity and modernity in Hangzhou.
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Check out: Night View of Grand Canal Hangzhou
If time permits on your Hangzhou tour, packing and wearing a pair of comfortable shoes, have a walking tour of Grand Canal Hangzhou either in daytime or in the evening, your perfect way to mix with the locals, to see Hangzhou, and know China.
Top 7: Impression West Lake
If you are interested in Hangzhou culture, Impression West Lake is highly recommended. Impression West Lake-a unique metropolitan outdoor performance in a natural stage setting, is the most beautiful metropolitan theater with natural mountains and water as its backdrop.
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Check out: Impression West Lake
Directed by Zhang Yimou, the content of the performance would be circled firmly to the word “water” in order to incarnate the essence and lingering charm of the West Lake.
Top 8: Song City at night
As you know, Hangzhou Song City is the firs and largest park with a theme of Song Dynasty culture, where tourists can learn about the daily life of a Song Dynasty resident. However, the park at night offers you another different flavor. Song city under the prismy lighting is so noisy with huge crowd of people. All kinds of stores imitated the Southern Song Dynasty are open, such as weaving workshop, stithy, money house (bank), and so on.
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It really matches with the aim of the park—Only one day time, give you back Millennium affection. You will feel you are in the time tunnel.
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