蘇州も素敵な水郷の町ですが、小さな水郷の町朱家角もおすすめです。一時期はここに引っ越そうかとしたほど好きな街です。上海からはバス(普安路×延安路から、12元)で50分くらいで着きます。上海体育館からも往復で80元（朱家角入場料込み）のバスがでていますが朝10時までしかないので要注意です。細い路地ばかりで橋も多いので車は入れないし、昔ながらの中国風情が満喫できます。最近はおしゃれなお店も増えてます。意外と広くて端から端まで歩くと結構時間かかります。
ゲストハウスなどもいくつかあるので一泊するのもお勧めです。昼は観光客が多いのですが夜は本当に静かで映画でみる古い中国みたいな感じです。私が泊まった事があるUMA HOSTELも古い家をおしゃれに改造してあっていい感じです。朱家角はどうだかわかりませんが万博のため上海はホテルが値上がりしてるので予約の際に前もって確認する事をお勧めします。
Suzhou is a wonderful watertown but I also recommended small water town “ZhuJiaJiao”. I really love this town, even I once tried to move to here. There’s a bus stop to ZhuJiaJiao (PuAn Road x YanAn Road,12RMB) and it takes about 50 minutes. You can also take bus in Shanghai gymnasium, it’s 80 RMB by round trip (including ZhuJiaJiao admission fee), but after 10am there’s no bus from Shanghai gymnasium, so please be careful. Since there are many small street and many bridges, no car can go inside, so you can enjoy Old Chinese atmosphere. And many fashionable shops are opening recently. This town is much larger than imagined, it takes quite long time to walk from the edge to the edge.
Staying there for one night is also recommended because there are some guesthouses, etc. Though there are a lot of tourists in daytime, it’s completly quiet at night, the feeling is like you are in old China movie. “UMA HOSTEL” where I have stayed once is a old rennovated fashionable house, staying here is also nice. Because of the Expo, price of hotels in Shanghai is rising. So I recommend to confirm the price when you book the hotel.
