#Three Pools Mirroring the Moon Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jun)
Islands/Peninsulas
Night Attractions
Address:
Xihu Santan Yinyue, Xihu District, Hangzhou
Opening times:
Opens at 08:00-17:00Open
Recommended sightseeing time:
0.5-1 hour
Phone:
0571-87977767
Three pools mirroring the moon! If you have watched Chinese movies you will definitely recognize this symbol. Also, take a look at one yuan bill... They are there!
Whatever, mentioning this name refers to the lonely island Sanyingzhou located in the middle of West Lake where you could be brought by numerous boats starting from different points around the West Lake.
The island itself is also interesting. Small piece of solid ground offers to walk through its narrow paths and take memorable pictures.
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MaxS
Have you ever noticed the picture at the back of 1 yuan cash? Yeah, it is a real place located in the xihu area. It is called three pools mirroring the moon. To get here, you have to take the boat to go to the small island, then you can walk around this beautiful island and see it. During summer and autumn there are lotus and other beautiful flowers all over the ponds, which are very picturesque. #happynewyear #beautifulhangzhou
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Quinissa
"The Pavilion of Mutual Affection", the epitome of romantic sunset at the heart of West Lake.
Greetings~ I am Pig Liver Noodles 🐷
💁🏻♀️A native of Hangzhou, plus a certified tour guide and photographer.
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Away from the hustle and bustle of the crowd,
Witness a sunset at the heart of West Lake~
Will you join me?
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Watching the sunset at Three Pools Mirroring the Moon,
Only a few are privy to this secret~
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🚤Boat Dock: Navigate to "Park One"
🎫Island Admission Fee: 50 for the boat ride, 70 for the boat ride + island admission
✅Lake Tour Highlights: Leifeng Pagoda, Three Pools Mirroring the Moon
💁🏻♀️Friendly Reminder: The last boat leaves the island at 5:30
📷Prime Photo Spot: Keep walking once you're on the island, all the way to the end.
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Alright,
Off you go~
To witness the most enchanting sunset at the heart of West Lake 🌄
Leahbg
99% of people in Hangzhou will miss the most beautiful sunset of Santanyin Moon
No one can resist the most beautiful sunset of Santanyin Moon, right?
| Hangzhou West Lake Xiaoyingzhou Island Santanyin Moon
⏰| 8:00-17:00
🚤| There are 4⃣️ piers to take a boat to the island, 8:00-16:30
🎫| Santanyin Moon 20, round-trip boat ticket 35, you can choose any pier to disembark, about 10 minutes one way
Wayfarer-Wanderlust
Hangzhou Tourism | Easy Version West Lake One-Day Tour Route!
Hangzhou's tourist route is very simple! Several tourist spots are gathered together, and you can choose bus / Didi / bicycle 🚲 between the spots.
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🤚Complete West Lake Route Map 1
If you only stay in Hangzhou for half a day, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery around the West Lake; if you stay in Hangzhou for a day, you can add Lingyin Temple, Faxi Temple, Leifeng Tower and so on.
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1️⃣Hangzhou / West Lake One-Day Tour (Different Routes)
❶ Lingyin Temple-Faxi Temple-Leifeng Tower / Jingci Temple-Huagang Guanyu Wharf-Santan Yin Yue Island-Zhongshan Park Wharf-Xileng Bridge
❷ One Park Wharf-Santan Yin Yue Island-Huagang Guanyu Wharf-Leifeng Tower-Sudi-Baidi
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2️⃣West Lake Cruise
The price includes the island ticket + island ticket + island ticket
①70 luxury cruise: one / two parks, youth palace, five parks wharf island price
②55 leisure ticket: Qianwang Temple, Hangzhou meal, Huagang Guanyu, Zhongshan Park Wharf island price
As for the island, any wharf can be, the price difference is only different from the island wharf
You can take a "one yuan banknote" on Santan Yin Yue Island
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3️⃣West Lake Sightseeing Car
The sightseeing car has different materials and different prices!
There are 40 / person and 80 / person around the lake, but the section charge is 10 / person and 20 / person
①Leifeng Tower-Yue Temple: This line is mainly along Sudi, the scenery is still very beautiful
②Leifeng Tower-Youth Palace: This passes through two sections, you don't need to stop at Yue Temple, along Sudi and Baidi, enjoy the beautiful scenery!
🤡Choose a sightseeing car according to your own island and island wharf, and the scenic spots you want to check in
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4️⃣Leifeng Tower + Jingci Temple
①Leifeng Tower 40, you can overlook the panoramic view of West Lake
②Jingci Temple 10, you can take the same kind of very popular Leifeng Tower photos online
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5️⃣Lingyin Temple + Faxi Temple
①Feilai Peak 45 + Lingyin Temple 30, you must enter Feilai Peak before entering Lingyin Temple
②Faxi Temple 10, you can take the same kind of very popular photos online
There is a small sightseeing car between Lingyin Temple and Faxi Temple, 10 / person
It is recommended to go to Lingyin Temple first and then to Faxi Temple, so you can take the bus back to West Lake or Yintai from Faxi Temple, when there are many people, you can't squeeze the bus at Lingyin Temple 🥲
🤠If you really can't squeeze, you can try a bicycle
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6️⃣Xileng Bridge
The most beautiful corner of West Lake, you can wait for a 1314 bus 📸
You can take a Didi to Lingyin Temple from Gushan Park on the side of Xileng Bridge, it's not cheap when there are many people...
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7️⃣Note
The tourist route can be followed or reversed
If you stay in Hangzhou for a day and return on the same day, leave enough time when calculating the time!
There are many people in Hangzhou, and the bus is still very congested
DEBORAH HART
I found the origin of the character 'Hang', and you can also watch the most beautiful sunset
I found the origin of the character 'Hang', and you can also watch the most beautiful sunset.
Surprisingly, I found the origin of the character 'Hang' in Hangzhou here, and you can also watch the most beautiful sunset.
The right half of the Hangzhou logo, the character 'Kang', implies one of Hangzhou's famous attractions, 'Three Pools Mirroring the Moon'. Also known as Xiaoyingzhou, as one of the ten sceneries of West Lake, it is known as 'the best scenery of West Lake'.
The origin of 'Three Pools Mirroring the Moon' is also extremely elegant. Three stone towers are like three gourds growing on the sparkling water. And there are five evenly distributed small round holes. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people light candles in the round holes of the stone towers, paste the holes with thin paper, and many small moons will be reflected in the water.
Mia Sinclair
Hangzhou 2 days 1 night blood-spitting arrangement, stayed!!
Accommodation: It is recommended to stay near West Lake Yintai, close to West Lake, convenient transportation, and there are many delicious foods.
Route arrangement:
Day1
Faxi Temple--Lingyin Temple--Southern Song Imperial Street--Fifteen Kuixiang
🌈Faxi Temple
Tickets: 🈚️
You can take the 1314 bus to the "Upper Tianzhu" station
🌈Lingyin Temple
Tickets: Lingyin Temple is included in Feilai Peak, so you need to buy a ticket for Feilai Peak to enter. After entering, you need to buy another ticket to go to Lingyin Temple
🌈Southern Song Imperial Street
Day2 West Lake tour around the lake--Wulin Night Market
🌈West Lake route arrangement: Three Pools Mirroring the Moon--Flower Harbor Watching Fish--Su Causeway--Quyuan Fenghe--Xiling Bridge--Bai Causeway--Broken Bridge Remaining Snow
West Lake is very large, it is recommended to ride a bicycle or rent a sightseeing car.
🌈Wulin Night Market
Wulin Night Market is the most exquisite night market I have ever visited. It is very lively inside, but it is not as noisy as other night markets, full of barbecue smoke, and it is very comfortable to stroll around here.
The dinner was at a barbecue restaurant on Wulin Night Market, called Le House Barbecue. The store is quite large, with a theme of local tyrants, which is very interesting. It's quite cozy to eat barbecue inside. The dishes are good, I will continue to eat!
Hangzhou·Zhejiang
DigitalJinx
Hangzhou, Wuzhen, Suzhou, Shanghai
Day1✔️Hangzhou
📍Itinerary: West Lake cruise - Three Pools Mirroring the Moon - Leifeng Pagoda - Su Causeway
After putting down the luggage, go to West Lake, arrive at West Lake Pier at about 3:30.
Buy West Lake cruise + Three Pools Mirroring the Moon island admission ticket in advance, no need to pick up the ticket, directly scan the code to board the ship, Three Pools Mirroring the Moon island is not very big, 1 hour is enough, there are different island piers on the island, leading to different attractions, after visiting, go to the small pier going to Huagang Island, take a boat to Leifeng Pagoda.
After getting off the boat, walk for seven or eight minutes to Leifeng Pagoda, visit the old site on the first floor of the tower, take the elevator directly to the top floor, look outside after looking inside, come down one floor at a time, there is a telescope on the fourth floor, you can watch the close-up of West Lake in the distance.
After coming out of Leifeng Pagoda, I wanted to go to Nansong Imperial Street for a stroll and then have a meal. The driver was very enthusiastic to chat, saying that he was also a fellow from the Northeast 🤣🤣, he said that Nansong Imperial Street and Hefang Street are all fooling outsiders, Hangbang cuisine is not authentic, the authentic one is to go to Grandma's Home, there is one not far from West Lake Yintai Store, seeing that the driver was very honest, so I changed my course to go there, on the way the driver talked a lot, and then talked about silk, saying that Hangzhou people do not go to beauty salons, they use silk four-piece sets at home, beauty and skin care, and they do not have rheumatism 🤣🤣, and said that the brand of Wanshili is good, it happens to be on sale now, when he parked at the end, he dropped me off at the intersection, which happens to be the store of Wanshili......
Day2✔️ Pray for blessings at Faxi Temple in Shangtianzhu - Hangzhou West Lake Scenic Area - Meijiawu - Yunqi Bamboo Path
Call a car directly to Faxi Temple at 8:30 in the morning
📍Faxi Temple
Hangzhou temple visit
Buy "Shangtianzhu Faxi Temple" at the entrance of the temple, they will give three sticks of incense
Amulet: Can be purchased at the "Dharma Circulation Office" at the entrance, there are fewer styles in the temple, you can also buy outside the temple.
📍Meijiawu - Yunqi Bamboo Path
After coming out of Faxi Temple, go to Meijiawu, go to the opposite Ligengtang to eat, ordered 2 cups of Mingqian Longjing to taste, do not know tea, but also feel pretty good️, ordered a portion of dried bamboo shoots and another vegetable dish can't remember the name, the dried bamboo shoots are quite delicious 😋😋
After eating, you can see a large tea garden along the road, go inside to take pictures or chat with the tea picking aunt, you can walk all the way to Yunqi Bamboo Path by stopping and going.
James Taylor
Hangzhou West Lake Scenic Area
The West Lake is based on the basic pattern of one mountain, two towers, three islands, three embankments, and five lakes. The famous West Lake Ten Scenic Spots are dotted among them, with nature and humanities complementing each other, and it's breathtakingly beautiful.
The Three Pools Mirroring the Moon landscape, which appears on the back of the one yuan RMB banknote, also reflects the special status of West Lake among China's scenic spots.
You can walk, take a boat, ride an electric car, drive or cycle to tour the West Lake.
📍Tour route: Broken Bridge and Remaining Snow - Bai Causeway - Pinghu Qiuyue - Xiling Seal Engravers' Society - Quyuan Fenghe - Su Causeway Spring Dawn (overlooking 'Twin Peaks Piercing the Clouds', Three Pools Mirroring the Moon) - Huagang Guanyu - Leifeng Pagoda at Sunset (climb Leifeng Pagoda, if you don't climb the tower you can go directly to Jingci Temple to enjoy the view) - Nanping Evening Bell (Jingci Temple) - Long Bridge - Liulang Wenying - Jixian Pavilion
🌈Attraction introduction
1. Broken Bridge: Located in the middle of the Su Causeway, it is one of the most famous attractions of West Lake. It is said that in ancient times, there was a complete bridge connected to the shore on the bridge, but it was later destroyed, leaving only a broken bridge surface. The Broken Bridge is the subject of the poem 'Lin'an Residence' by the poet Su Dongpo, so it is also called 'Broken Bridge Remnant Snow'.
2. Yue Fei Temple: The temple is divided into a temple area and a tomb area. The temple area is a group of buildings that worship Yue Fei and tell the story of Yue Fei, with the Zhonglie Shrine as the core building. The tomb area is the tomb of Yue Fei and his son. The most well-known is the kneeling statue of Qin Hui and his wife. The tomb area is for people to come here to remember the hero and spit on the criminal.
3. Quyuan Fenghe: It was a workshop for brewing official wine at Hongchun Bridge during the Southern Song Dynasty. It was famous throughout the country for making Qu wine with the stream water of Jinsha Gully. It is an ocean of maple leaves! Quyuan Fenghe is highly recommended. This is definitely a place to enjoy maple leaves. You can see the unique charm of Jiangnan gardens, which is interesting with the red maple leaves. In this quaint pavilion, it feels like being in Kyoto, feeling a strong Zen.
4. Huagang Guanyu: During the Southern Song Dynasty, the eunuch Lu Yunsheng built a private garden 'Lu Garden' in the Huagang area. In this garden, a large pool was specially dug to raise a variety of 'imported fish', attracting many literati and ink guests, so there was 'Huagang Guanyu'.
5. Three Pools Mirroring the Moon: Look at the back of the one yuan RMB banknote, and you can see the 'First Scenic Spot of West Lake' - Three Pools Mirroring the Moon. As the most standard landscape of West Lake, the specific location is now Xiaoyingzhou, the only small island in West Lake that can be visited. It is a good place to enjoy the moon on Mid-Autumn Festival. It is said that on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a thin paper is pasted on the hole, and the light of the candle shines through the paper, which is no different from the real moonlight.
6. Leifeng Pagoda: Located on Beishan Road on the north shore of West Lake, it is one of the landmark buildings of Hangzhou. Climbing to the top of the tower, you can overlook the magnificent scenery of the entire West Lake, and you can also enjoy the light show at night.
7. Liulang Wenying: It is the scenery of the 'Jujing Garden', the imperial garden of the Southern Song Dynasty, and now it is a small scenic spot in the lakeside area of West Lake. The park is named for its verdant willow color and melodious oriole singing. Now walking along the embankment along the lake for a kilometer, passing by weeping willows, lion willows, drunk willows and other willows along the way, you can still feel the vitality.
Tour experience:
The West Lake tour boats vary in size and price, usually seating 5-10 people, it's best to find people to share a boat. There are one-way and round-trip routes, it's best to ask clearly before departure.
⚠️Precautions:
The roads around West Lake implement odd and even number restrictions and high-displacement vehicle restrictions from 08:30 to 17:00 on weekends and holidays.
📍Address: No. 1 Longjing Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province
🎫Ticket: Free
⌛️Opening hours: All day
🚘Travel strategy
【Subway】Take subway line 1 to Longxiangqiao Station, and walk about 400 meters from the station to West Lake.
【Bus】Take K4, Tour 2 to Sudi Station, or take 28, 15 to Yuquan Station, or 27, 7 to Yuefen Station, and walk to it.
HALLE PERKINS
West Lake, there are many attractions that can be recalled.
Look at the West Lake in this rainy day, watching the West Lake in the sunset, no matter when, the taste is different.
Especially like the three pools of the moon.
Santan Yinyue is one of the ten scenic spots in the West Lake. It is known as the first victory in the West Lake. The Santan Yinyue is the largest island in the West Lake. The scenery is beautiful and the scenery is quiet. The landscape of You Santan is very famous both at home and abroad. The main attractions are "opening net pavilion", "leisure table", "Pianxian", "Ying Cui Xuan", "Flower and Bird Hall", "My Heart, Yinting Pavilion", "Quqiao", "Nine Lions" and so on.
On the shore, Jin Gui Po, the willow green flower, is in harmony with the architecture of the carved picture. It has an island with a lake, a lake in the island, a garden in the garden, and a variety of changes in the art of Jiangnan Water Garden. The back side of the RMB one-dollar banknotes adopts the grand view of the Three Pools and the Moon, which shows that the Three Pools and the Moons also play an extremely important role in the scenic spots in China.