The west lake evolved from a shallow bay through which the Qiantang River flowed into the East China Sea. It covers an area of 6.78 square kilometers. The average depth is 2.27 meters. Three sides of the lake are surrounded by verdant mountains and one side of it prosperous city. The beauty of the West Lake lies in the harmonious combination of humanistic and natural scenery. After a large-scale reconstruction, the current West Lake has recovered the panorama over 300 years before when it reached the most prosperous period in history, combining delicacy, elegance and wild natural interest in harmony.

Covering an area of 300 acres, it is a famous Chinese theme park of Song Culture. There are lots of activities and performances of folk customs. Eternal Legend of Songcheng is a full length singing and dancing performance as well as a classical program of night tour of Hangzhou.

It is the only national museum in China that takes tea as the only theme. It displays various aspects of tea culture such as tea history, famous teas, tea events, tea sets and tea customs. The display of the bewildering variety of historical relics has portrayed the developing track of the thousands of years old tea culture of China.

It used to be the site of production and trade of silk in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Now it is a walking street mixed with culture, tourism and business and the largest silk wholesale and retail market in China.

Hefang Street is an epitome of the history and culture of Hangzhou and reveals that when the Southern Song took Hangzhou as its capital, there was temporary prosperity in the street. There are more than 100 shops mainly involved in teahouses, drug stores, silk, baked goods, food, curios, calligraphy and paintings and other noted shops such as Hu Qing Yu Tang, Wanlong Ham Workshop and Wangxingji Fans.

In this street there are some top grade leisure places like the West Lake Xintiandi. Now it has over 100 shops including bars, cafes, tea houses and galleries. The most attractive place is the gallery of arts and culture represented by China Academy of Art and Pan Tianshou's Memorial Hall.

The shopping street connects to the Wulin Square in the north and intersection of Jiefang Road in the south. It is the primary shopping street where there are lots of brand outlets, shopping stores, and mall.

The park covers an area of 3,000 acres, and adopts the layout of the Zhouyi Eight Diagrams, combining three cultures Ru, Shi, Dao into the Eight Diagrams, with the 2,000-meter culture gallery crossing the whole park reflects, which exhibits the unique attractiveness of the classical Oriental Culture.

Qiantang River Tide is well known in the world for its high, Changing, billowy and breathtaking waves. Each day, there are two small tides in the daytime tide and in the evening respectively. From the first to the fifth and from the sixteenth to the twentieth of the lunar month, you may see large tides. Especially, the tides around the eighteenth of August of the lunar calendar are the largest. Tide of Qiantang River viewing village is the best place to view "Qiantang River Tide", where China International Viewing Tide Festival has been held successfully for several times.