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Come midweek — Shanghai empties into Hangzhou at the weekend

Panda · China · 7 Sept 2026

Trains from Shanghai Hongqiao take 45 to 60 minutes, which is why the lake is a Shanghai suburb every Saturday. Midweek the same walk is a different city.

Book the train a day or two ahead in season; your passport is the ticket, so go through the foreign-passport lane at the gates rather than the automatic ones. Hangzhou East is on the metro, about twenty minutes from the lake.

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