Tuisi Garden, Jiangsu, China
4.5 (52 reviews) Wednesday: 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM Spent Ranking #25 in Suzhou Points of Interest & Landmarks • Gardens
The Most Beautiful Garden
Visited a lot of gardens in Suzhou, all of them are different. This is in my eye the most beautiful, in fact this is my second time to Tongli, mostly for visiting this particular garden again. It's smaller compared to most gardens, compact but yet not cramped in design & layout, very clever design. Every angle or direction you look, there is a different view. Also, it's less crowded than the gardens that are in Suzhou city. Tips: 1. Go very early before the tour buses/ crowd arrive, I was always the first tourist there during my few nights stay in Tongli. 2. Take a rest when it's crowded, there are benches upstairs in the garden, best part, its with view to the pond! The crowd will be gone very soon as most tourists only spend a maximum of 30 minutes in a garden. 3. Worth to stay in Tongli for a night or 2 if like quite town, if you have time. Fun: Not sure how many found a hidden stairway camouflaged as a little stone hill.
Address
Tongli Town, Wujiang District, Suzhou 215200 China
Working hours
Monday : 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Tuesday : 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Wednesday : 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Thursday : 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Friday : 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Saturday : 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Sunday : 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Current local date and time now
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 12:42
User Ratings
4.5 based on (52 reviews)
Reviews
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5d_titzova 5:00 PM Dec 11, 2014
Tongli Tuisi Garden
Tuisi Garden (700 m2) in water town Tongli is a classical private Garden of late Qing Dynasty. The host of Garden dan been an officer in Anhui Province and came back build Garden in 1885-1887. Design in Garden was invited by local painter Yuang Long. Half area of the elegant Garden are covered with water. Nice building are close to water so that looks like building are floating on water. 2000 UNESCO. Opening hours 8 - 17.
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4drdw 5:00 PM Feb 20, 2014
Small, but good enough
Compared to those in Suzhou downtown gardens, it’s small. But it has most of characteristics of a SZ garden. Most importantly, it is not as crowded as those in SZ ,so one can take photos without many tourists in frame. So if one has a limited time, one can just visit Tongli to see both water town and garden.
