A thousand-year canal town an hour from the Bund, with a boat through the bridge arches
A private car out of the city and a slow afternoon in a canal town: garden, temple, stone street, then a sculling boat with nobody else in it.
Anyone expecting the Venice of the brochures — Zhujiajiao is a lived-in town with shops, not a film set.
The boat seats six. Groups larger than that go in two boats, one behind the other, which is not the same experience.
Private car and guide collect you from any hotel inside Shanghai’s Outer Ring; start time can be moved
Local time (GMT+8). As a private tour, order and start time can be adjusted.
Lobby of any hotel inside the Outer Ring; about an hour by road
Enter past Fangsheng Bridge — five arches over the Cao Port river, built in 1571 and the town’s emblem
Kezhi is a private garden mixing Jiangnan pavilions with a Western clock tower; Yuanjin is the town’s oldest temple, built against the canal
Braised pork bundles, river fish and grandmother’s zongzi; Beida Street has the densest choice
One of the best-preserved old streets in Shanghai, then a boat through the arches — six to a boat, included
About an hour; ask for a drop at Hongqiao or anywhere central
这条路线的起点与终点都在上海。多数旅客从Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station抵达——接送集合点离出口只有一小段出租车或地铁的距离，行程结束后也来得及坐晚上的火车。如果你从别的城市过来，可以先查直达高铁，以及首班与末班的时间。
The private car removes all the transfers, and children love the boat. The streets are flat enough for a stroller.
跟團遊每人 $135，或私家團每車 $256 起（含司機與導遊）。跟團價包含司機、導遊與門票；私家團價則是整臺車的價格，不論人數多寡。
行程從 09:00 到 16:30——從接送到下車約 7.5 小時，含車程。若你當晚要趕火車或飛機，請把票訂在 18:00 之後。
Your hotel in central Shanghai。司機與導遊會在那裡與你會合；確切地點於出發前一天確認。
Private car and driver, Shanghai transfers、Mandarin-speaking guide throughout、Sculling boat, one boat for up to six。
Lunch、Six-site combi ticket ¥60 (optional)。
兩天。我們不接受當天或隔天的預訂，因為車輛、導遊與門票都必須提前安排。行程前 7 天以上取消免費；之後依序為20%（6–3天）與60%（2–1天），當天則完全不退款。
A big old town you can walk into for free — no ticket gate around the historic core, and the metro drops you right there. Canals, little bridges and whitewashed houses: the classic Jiangnan scene. The stretch around Fangsheng Bridge has the widest views and feels grandest. It is heavily commercialised — shops and farmhouse restaurants everywhere, and busy with visitors.
Very easy to reach on the metro. The best of it is North Street, Fangsheng Bridge and Kezhi Garden — a proper water town of bridges, white walls and dark tiles, boats drifting past and plenty of snacks. The place is beautifully lit at night as well.
Pleasant overall: part of it is genuinely old, part of it is modern commercial. Best enjoyed when it is not crowded. The shops do repeat the same things though — a bit more variety would make it better.
