Hangzhou Nightlife

Nightlife in Hangzhou is very rich and colorful but with some contradiction: nightlife in Weijia Wu and Longjing Village is quite leisure with playing cards; Coffee houses beside West Lake lakeside is often sit around by visitors deeply attracted by West Lake scenery; Nanshan Bars Street is always bustling in night, and even stays busily all night. It really depends on your choice how to relax yourself. The ideal method to live through a wonderful night is to spend the night with your beloved walking across the shoreline of Hangzhou's West Lake or riding a boat at leisure in its water in the moonlight. In a world, night life in this city will exactly become a memorable time in your life.

It's universally said that purchasing in Hong Kong is "shopping" while it's "sweeping goods" in Hangzhou. The reason for this saying is that discount in department stores and name brand stores of Hangzhou is obviously lower than that in Hong Kong. Therefore, Hangzhou is the favorite place to girls high on buying cheap goods.

Most people visiting in Hangzhou has not only been satisfied with purchasing local specialties like lotus root starch, silk parasol and tea-leaves, they gradually tend to those fashionable goods, for example, many beautiful girls usually enjoy themselves so much as to forget to leave streets like Wulin Street, Holly Fashion Market, Hangzhou Silk City.

Main marketplaces mainly focus in Wulin Business Circle Hubin Business Circle. And the major megastores in Wulin Square include Hangzhou Tower, Hangzhou Department Store and In Time. A variety of commodities in Hubin Business Circle can meet consumers' requirements up to luxurious groups and down to ordinary people. Hangzhou's time-honored stores are listed as following: Du Jinsheng Silk Brocade, Wang's Fans, Zhang's Scissors and Dragon Well Tea and Rong Bao Zhai.

Besides, there are some characteristic shopping streets like Qinghe Street, Women Dress Street in Wulin Road, Xinyi Block and International Shopping Malls in Hubin Road.

Enjoying Performances
"The Romance of the Song Dynasty"
"The Romance of the Song Dynasty" is the landmark performance of Hangzhou. It's consisted of the prologue Light of Liangzhu and four scenes: Dinner in Song Palace, Shining Spears and Armored Horses, Beautiful Xizi- Beautiful legend and the world Meets Here Together. The performance, designed basing on old Chinese idiom and myth, harmonizes international chorus and acrobatics into a body; combining with hi-tech means to create a dreamful artistic effect. Its strong visual impact is highly praised to be on a par with Paris Moulin Rouge or American Las Vegas. You can enjoy fully color laser show which can not be seen in any domestic showplace: more than 1,000 PAR lights are composed to be magic lamp array; top smoke fog machine creates strong a dreamy or misty effect; a circular viewing screen of over 100meters makes you enchanted in the dreamful fairyland.

Besides, there are other performances, for example, Impressions of the West Lake. This performance is designed combining the beautiful scenery of West Lake and colorful lamplight; truly show the charming beauty of West Lake in front of the honored visitors.

Location: Songcheng Grand Theater
Ticket：  RMB220
Showtime ：18：30—19：30 20：00—21：00
Booking Tel：0571—87321785
Routes：Y 5、Y 4、K 504、308.

Bar Hopping
Hangzhou, a city full of both tranquility and bustle, is also famous for its multi-modeled bars. According to incompletely figures, there are more than 2.000 bars in Hangzhou city. Bar hopping here has long become one part of people's life. After one day's work or sight-seeing, sitting and chattering with friends in the comfortable bar is really a happy time. There are some well known bars in this city, like Medusa Western-style Bar, SOS Storm Bar, SOHO Bar, and Traveler Bar etc.

Recreation spots
Nanshan Road
Nanshan Road, to the south of West Lake Scene, locates in the central area of the old city district in Hangzhou. This road is separated into several parts: "Nanshan Affection" , "Nanshan Surprise", "Nanshan Art Circle", "Nanshan Savor" and "Nanshan Leisure". The road used to be a famous only for the name of Bar Street. It is now well known for many delicacies assembled here, becoming a perfect place to eyes and taste. Famous delicacies are as West Lake Jade Park, West Lake Spring, and Curvaceous Town and so on; bars like Travellers Bar, You to Bar, G+ and Fire Phoenix Bar are all welcome in the whole city.
Route: K516, bus No.12/K12, bus No.4/K4.

Norway Forest Bar
Norway Forest, a classical music bar, is established with elegant environment and unique style, mainly themed with heavy brown. There is the crowded bar in the first floor, with wide open-air performance stage and leisure& entertainment district outside the bar. It is comparative quiet on the second floor, where is suitable for business consultation or chatting. With an excellent singer as its boss, the bar is obvious different from other normal bars: here you can hear the most beautiful and hearty music, play the most dynamic dances and enjoy the coolest music show. In a word, entertaining in Norway Forest will absolutely lead you to enjoy the power and prestige of King.

Location: opposite to Hangzhou Zoo
Routes: K291, J1, J5, J9, Y5, Y7, buses No.315 & 514 &527
 

Pedestrian Street in Hubin Road
Located near the West Lake Scene, Hubin Pedestrian Street is the hall and facade Hangzhou city. Here're full of designer-label stores in this street. Various fashionable stores fully show extraordinary novelty and fashion atmosphere, and many design style here won a number of international architectural design awards. Strolling in these colorful stores, visitors can enjoy the delightful feeling of living in a fashion world and they often can get some branded goods by very low price. Not far from those fashionable stores, there's the West Lake Music Fountain, showed in every 30 minutes. Decorated with the surrounding colorful lamplight and the Glittering- lighted West Lake, the music fountain show superinduces much romantic atmosphere to Hangzhou City.