Liangzhu is located on the outskirts of Hangzhou, not far from the furthest reaches of the metro system. Initially when we planned our visit we were only aware of the museum, and had simply planned to visit that. But not long before our visit we were made aware of tours of the actual archaeological site, with the option to book online. We weren't sure about paying 80 yuan to see what we thought would be a standard archaeological site with virtually nothing to see, and anyway it probably wanted us to pay using Alipay or something similar that we didn't have, so we skipped booking.

It was a lovely sunny day when we arrived at the Liangzhu Museum. The museum exhibit is excellent and every modern, although only parts of the display have English translation (enough to learn about the Liangzhu culture but not enough to draw out your visit to become overly long). The highlight are the fine jade artefacts. There were also the first of multiple references to "5000 years of Chinese history" - aha, the reason for this site being prioritised by the Chinese! 

We still had plenty of the day left, so we figured, let's go visit the closest archaeological site and see what the deal is with visiting, without a booking. On Google Maps, search for "Liangzhu Ancient City Relic Site". But the actual entrance is on the major road G104 to the south. We caught another bus from near the museum, which turned south down to G104 at a point where the road seemed recently closed...

...and the bus dropped us at the entrance to the very new, nicely landscaped "archaeological theme park". I believe the online booking set-up was just a soft opening phase,  as there was a ticket office onsite, although it seemed very new, and it took about 3 staff members to register us in the system and sell us our ticket. (Not sure there had been many foreign visitors!) No dusty archaeological park here. It was more a Jurassic Park style park, with electric carts to shuttle us around the large site, stopping at the various stops. You could easily spend all day, stopping at the various sites and completing short walks. We didn't have that much time, so after stopping at the old city gates, we headed for the far side, near the palace area, plus stopped at the tombs, probably the most interesting feature. Don't also miss the small museum exhibit near the tombs, a good substitute if you haven't been to the museum.

There still wasn't that much to see onsite as with many archaeological sites, but the Chinese had done a fine job of turning it into a fancy, nicely landscaped experience. When we visited in late September, the final touches were still being done, with more workers on site than visitors. And both Google Maps and Baidu Maps still show roads criss-crossing the area, that are now blocked off as they are within the park, rather than the park itself.

To get to the museum and park, I recommend using Baidu Maps. We followed the directions to take the metro to the final stop (Liangzhu), then to catch the local buses. There's also not much in the way of food options, although I think some cafes are being opened at the archaeological park. (At the museum there are just some expensive sweets and ice creams in the gift shop.) There are however lockers at both locations (ask at the museum desk if your bag is too big for the lockers).