03 Girls' Solo Trip to Suzhou/One-Day Non-Backtracking Itinerary Guide

🚦Transportation Tips ✈️Flight: Suzhou has no airport. Fly to Shanghai Hongqiao or Pudong Airport first, then transfer to high-speed rail or bus. 🚄High-Speed Rail: Suzhou Station is downtown; Suzhou Industrial Park Station is near Jinji Lake and the Gate of the Orient. 🚇Metro: Use the "Su e Xing" APP for 🎫tickets. Lines 1, 2, and 4 reach Humble Administrator’s Garden, Pingjiang Road, and Guanqian Street. 🚌Bus: Get the Suzhou Public Transport e-Card on Alipay to ride. 🚋Water Bus: Board at South Square Pier of Suzhou Railway Station for a 9.9r or 19.9r ride to Shantang Street or Humble Administrator’s Garden. 📝Itinerary Route Suzhou Station → Humble Administrator’s Garden → Suzhou Museum → Lion Grove Garden → Pingjiang Road → Ou Garden → Jinji Lake → Gate of the Orient → Qili Shantang 📙Attraction Highlights 📍Humble Administrator’s Garden Centered around water, featuring exquisite pavilions, towers, and rockeries. 📍Suzhou Museum Designed by I.M. Pei, blending Jiangnan watertown aesthetics with modern geometry. 📍Pingjiang Road Stroll this ancient street to admire canals, whitewashed walls, and black-tiled roofs—quintessential Jiangnan charm. 📍Qili Shantang Take an evening boat ride along the ancient canal, soaking in the lit-up waterfront scenery. 📍Lion Grove Garden One of China’s Four Great Gardens, famed for its labyrinthine rockeries resembling dancing lions. 📍Gate of the Orient A Suzhou landmark nicknamed "The Pants Building." Great for photos by Jinji Lake. 🍜Food Streets ✅Pingjiang Road: Crab roe noodles, plum blossom cakes, Suzhou-style mung bean soup, sweet congee, gorgon fruit syrup, osmanthus cakes. ✅Guanqian Street ✅Shuangta Market ✅Shantang Street 🥘Must-Try Eats 🉑Qi’s Lake Fisherman’s Kitchen A 15-year-old Yangcheng Lake institution! Their home-raised crabs (30+ years) are rich in roe. Try "June yellows" (May-Aug) or fatty autumn crabs. ~90r/person. 🉑Qian Yuman·Old Suzhou Flavors (Shantang Street Branch) Must-orders: squirrel-shaped mandarin fish, braised pork trotters with mountain eggs, and their signature homemade rice wine. Arrive early—it’s packed! 🉑Suzhou Cuisine: Squirrel mandarin fish, sizzling eel paste, braised pork belly. 🉑Noodles: Suzhou broth noodles, Fengzhen noodles. At Su Yaxing Noodle House: try "three shrimp" noodles and their famed squirrel fish. Also: sticky taro mochi, refreshing green rice balls, matcha tofu ice jelly. 🏠Accommodation 📍Suzhou Luxian Designer Hotel Centrally located near Beisita Metro Station (Line 4), within walking distance to Suzhou Museum, Humble Administrator’s Garden, Lion Grove, and Pingjiang Road. #Suzhou #SuzhouTravel #SuzhouGuide #PingjiangRoad #SuzhouGardens #QiliShantang #SuzhouFood #SuzhouMuseum #HumbleAdministratorsGarden #PingjiangRoadFood #SuzhouDayTrip #SuzhouOneDayGuide #SuzhouAttractions #SuzhouHiddenGems #ShantangStreet #JiangZheHuGetaway #SuzhouTravelTips