18 October 2026
Add them. Do not swap them in for the country.
Hangzhou and Suzhou are additions. They are not substitutes for a first trip.
Hangzhou is on the first-trip list in fifth place because the train is short and the lake is a real half-day. It is not there so that a first-timer can skip every other city.
Suzhou is the same kind of addition and does not have its own place page yet. Until it does, treat it as a day from Shanghai, not as a missing rank we forgot.
- Related pageThe guide this note sits next to