Wuxi Transportation

Wuxi lies in the central Yangtze River Delta on the southeast coast of China. It is 128km away from Shanghai to its east; it borders the Yangtze River to the north while embracing the Taihu Lake to the south. It is a coastal city of jiangsu Province with a total population of 4.3 million including 1.06 million in its city proper. Wuxi covers on area of 4,650km� inclusive of 517.7 km� as the city centre's. Warm and humid, Wuxi has a congenial climate with four distinct seasons. The annual temperature averages 15.5 C� and the average rainfall up to 1,000 millimetres. Wuxi boasts its local scenic highlights integrating the Yangtze River, the Grand Canal, the Taihu Lake, the Spring and a couple of karst caves. Here combined natural landscape and cultural sights form a delightful attraction and thus cultivate intelligent people. Wuxi is China's renowned tourist city luring over ten million domestic and international travellers annually.

Wuxi is equipped with a complete transportation network and has turned out to be the transportation center of the area.

Airport-- Wuxi has a small airport with flights to Beijing (1.5hours, RMB720), Foshan (2.5hours, RMB740) and Kunming (2hours, RMB1160). Tourists to other destinations should go via nearby Changzhou, Nanjing or Shanghai airports.

Railways-- There are about 60 fast trains that stop by Wuxi daily, heading for nearby cities such as Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and distant cities like Beijing, Harbin, Changchun, Shenyang, Jinan, Zhengzhou, Taiyuan, Xian, Lanzhou, Xining, Chengdu and Urumqi. Almost every major city in China is directly connected with Wuxi. The train station is north of the canal ring. You can take bus no.11 to get there. If you have to line up for a ticket, try window No.2, where the service tends to be a little quicker than elsewhere.

Highways--The Shanghai Nanjing Expressway and National Highway 312 traverse the city, joining Wuxi with Shanghai and Nanjing.

Waterways-- The Xishan ferry dock is to the southwest part of the city. There are daily tourist boats to Changzhou (3hours) and Suzhou (3.5hours). It is also pleasant to go to Huzhou across Taihu Lake (RMB114 for a twin room). The boat departs around 17:30 and arrives at 07:30 the next day.

Road-- There are three long distance bus stations in Wuxi. The main one (Wuxi keyun zongzhan) is only minutes walk northwest of the train station at No.18 Guangqin Lu.

There are bus services to Shanghai (2 daily; 07:50, 12:10) and Wenzhou (1 daily; 13:30). Wuxi Bus Station (Wuxi qiche zhan) is at No.114, Tonghui Dong Lu. It operates daily buses to Shanghai (RMB43, 20 minute intervals), Suzhou (RMB18 20 minute intervals), Nanjing (RMB52, 10 minute intervals), Qingdao (RMB250; 2 night buses daily at 19:30, 20:30) and Wuhan (RMB280, 3 daily). The West Station (Wuxi qiche xizhan) is on the west bank of the Great Canal on Liangong Lu near a roundabout. (Take bus No.20 or No.820 from the railway station.) Most expresses headed for Zhejiang and Anhui depart from here. Also there is a daily bus to Shanghai (RMB44), 4 to Nanjing (RMB44), 1 to Nantong (RMB43), 5 to Suzhou (RMB15), 1 to Hefei (RMB90; 09:10) and 3 to Wuhan (RMB280).