Spring Dawn at Su Causeway Hangzhou

The 3 km long Su Causeway is named after the famous personality who constructed it -the poet Su Dongpo of the Northern Song Dynasty, who was a onetime governor of Hangzhou. Su Dongpo achieved the remarkable task of dredging up West Lake and then created Su Causeway with the silt from the dredging. Su Causeway is now a beautiful tourist attraction of Hangzhou. It looks magnificent at different points of the year, but it surpasses itself in beauty when spring comes to Hangzhou.

Location

Su Causeway in Hangzhou, China is located in the beautiful West Lake Scenic Area.

Access

Take a bus and get off at either Su Causeway or Flowery Pond. Alternatively you can get off at Yue Fei’s temple or Quyuan Garden, to get to the northern end of Su Causeway. You can also take a West Lake travel boat to Flowery Pond.

Timing

Visit this place all through the day and night!

Entry

Anyone can enter free of charge!

Features of Su Causeway, Hangzhou

These are some of the features of Su Causeway that make it a major tourist attraction of Hangzhou:

- Connecting the North Mountain to the South Mountain, Su Causeway has a most picturesque location just above the lake.
Su Causeway steals your heart with its different looks not only at different points of the year, but also in different weathers and at different points of the day. The causeway dazzles with the rows of magnolia, hibiscus and cherry planted all along its length. Especially in spring, when rosy dawn creeps over the causeway and the flowers are all in bloom, the perfectly serene beauty of the Spring Dawn at Su Causeway will enchant you entirely!

- You can view Su Causeway from different angles from the six arch bridges spanning it from south to north. Reflecting Ripples Bridge, Hill-View Bridge, Crossing-the-Rainbow Bridge and other bridges with equally beautiful names add to the causeway’s beauty.

Welcome spring with the glorious spring dawn at Su Causeway, Hangzhou!