Transportation of Beijing

Airport

Beijing Capital International Airport is located in northeast of Beijing, capital of People's Republic of China, and 25.35km from the Tiananmen Square, center of Beijing city. It is not only an aviation gateway of Beijing and a window for international communication, but also a radial center for China civil aviation network, featured in a large-scale international airport, with most important location, biggest scale, fullest facilities and busiest transportation in China.

Due to the excellent geographic location and service facilities at Beijing Capital International Airport, 66 domestic and foreign airline companies are participating in the operational business, including 11 domestic companies and 55 foreign companies. More than 5,000 scheduled flights are available to 88 cities in China and 69 cities abroad.

Ticket Booking Center:
Civil Aviation Building (民航营业大厦)
Location: No.15, Xi Chang'an Jie (西长安街).
Consulting and Ticket Booking Telephone Number: 010-6454 1100 (round-the-clock), 010-51295117, 010-86899369
In the ticket booking center, there are special ticket windows for guests from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and foreign countries.

Get to Civil Aviation Building:
Subway: Line 1 to Tiananmen West (天安门西), and then walk westwards to the Civil Aviation Building.
Bus Route: Bus No.1, 4, 5, 10, 22, 37, 52, 205, 728, 802 to Tiananmen Xi (天安门西), and walk westwards to the Civil Aviation Building.

Beijing Railway Station

Beijing Railway Station is one of Beijing's railway stations, opened in the 1950s, as can be seen from its architecture (which merges traditional architecture with 50s-design). It is located in an extremely central location, just next to Jianguomen, and is within the confines of the city's 2nd Ring Road. Trains enter and leave to the scenery of a former Beijing city gate at Dongbianmen.

The traffic load of Beijing Railway Station has decreased somewhat with the opening of the Beijing West Railway Station in 1996. Still, it remains a busy railway station, handling trains to and from northern and coastal southern China. Some international lines (notably the railway line linking Beijing to Pyongyang, North Korea (DPRK), amongst others), also depart from this station.

Subway: Subway Line 2 to Beijing Subway Station, and then walk to the Beijing Railway Station.
Bus Route:
1. Bus No.9, 10, 20, 25, 39, 59, 122, 203, 209, 403, 434, 639, 673, 729, 938 to Beijingzhan Dong (北京站东), and then walk to the Beijing Railway Station.
2. Bus No.24, 403, 420, 457, 637, 639, 640, 668, 673, 674, 692, 728 Zhi (728支), 729, Te 2 (特2) to Beijingzhan Qianjie (北京站前街), and then walk to the Beijing Railway Station.

Beijing West Railway Station

Beijing West Station handles traffic from south and west China.  The well-known Jingjiu Railway, or Beijing-Kowloon Railway line, begins from this railway station.

This station is located in the west of Beijing.  It can handle 300,000 passsengers daily!

There is not yet a subway station that connects to this station but it is planned for the future.

Transportation: Bus Route: Bus No.9, 21, 40, 47, 50, 52, 54, 65, 67, 205, 209, 212, 301, 319, 320, 373, 374, 387, 414, 437, 609, 616, 661, 663, 673, 694, 695, 741, 802, 823, 937 Zhi (937支), 937 Zhuan (937专), Te 2 (特2) to Beijing Xizhan (Beijing West Railway Station, 北京西站)

Beijing South Railway Station

The current Beijing South Railway Station (Chinese: 北京南站) is a new and massive railway station on the south side of Beijing that opened on August 1, 2008. The new station replaced the old Beijing South Station, also known as the Yongdingmen Railway Station before 1988, which stood 500 m away and operated from 1897 to 2006. The new Beijing South Station, reportedly the largest in Asia, joins the Beijing Railway Station and the Beijing West Railway Station as the third major passenger rail hub in the Chinese capital. It will serve as the terminus for high-speed trains to the city, including the Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Rail, which can reach speeds above 346 km/h.

Bus Route: Bus No.20, 53, 63, 102, 106, 122, 203, 208, 377, 381, 454, 458, 485, 692, 741, 927 Qu (927区), 939, 943, 958, 986, Te 3 (特3), Te 5 (特5), Yuntong 102 (运通102) to Beijing Nanzhan (Beijing South Railway Station, 北京南站).

Beijing East Railway Station

Beijing east railway station (traditional Chinese: 北京東站; simplified Chinese: 北京东站; pinyin: běi jīng dōng zhàn) is a railway station in Beijing.

The station is located near Sihui.

There are 7 passenger trains stop at the station everyday:

Beijing North Railway Station or Xizhimen Station

Beijing North Railway Station (Chinese: 北京北站; pinyin: běijīng běizhàn), formerly known as Xizhimen Railway Station, is a railway station in Beijing, China. It was built in 1905 as one of the original stations on the Jingzhang Railway, now part of old Beijing-Baotou Line. It is a small station (Tier-III) managed by the Beijing Railway Bureau that provides regular intercity train service to the north and northwest, including the Hailar-Baotou Grasslands Express. It is also the southern terminus for the S2 Line of the Beijing Suburban Railway.

Subway: Subway Line 2 or Subway Line 13 to Xizhimen Subway Station (西直门地铁站), and then walk to the Beijing North Railway Station.
Bus Route:
1. Bus No.21, 331, 375, 387, 392, 490, 604, 650, 693, 743 to Suojiafen (索家坟), and then walk to the railway station.
2. Bus No.27, 44 Da (44大), 44 Xiao (44小), 206, 347, 618, 800, 939 to Yutaoyuan (玉桃园), and then walk to the railway station.

Taxi

There are at least 2 prices of Taxi in Beijing.  They are priced according to the rate per kilometer.

1.60 RMB At this price range you can get a reasonably new Citroen or Volkswagen. The car is a bit bigger, a bit faster, is likely to have suspension and the air conditioning will probably work better. Still a very compact car by U.S. standards.

2.00 RMB this is the best taxi. At least, it is the most expensive ones. The cars are likely to be old, black, biggish, the driver likely to have some customer service and even some English skills. They are likely drive carefully too.

The taxi price is displayed inconveniently in the corner of the rear left or right side window. The trick is to know the types of cars so you can study the pictures of 120’s and 160’s above carefully. When you get really good, you can do this at night by headlights alone at a considerable distance. Note, the car types and prices never vary, so if you see this kind of Citroen or Volkswagen you can be sure it is a 160, and same with the little Xiali’s, they will always be 120’s.

Beijing Subway

The Beijing Subway is a rapid transit rail network that serves the urban and suburban districts of Beijing municipality. With 8 lines, over 200 km of tracks and 123 stations currently in operation and ridership averaging 3.4 million per day, the Beijing Subway is the busiest in mainland China, and the second longest after the Shanghai Metro. Ridership set a daily record of 4.92 million on August 22, 2008. The existing network cannot adequately meet the city's mass transit needs and is undergoing rapid expansion. Three new lines were opened on July 19, 2008 ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games. Existing plans call for 19 lines and 561 km of tracks in operation by 2015.

Beijing's subway lines generally follow the checkerboard layout of the city. Most lines run parallel or perpendicular to each other and intersect at right angles.

Line 1, a straight east-west line underneath Chang'an Avenue, which bisects the city through Tiananmen Square. Line 1 connects major commercial centres, Xidan, Wangfujing, Dongdan and the Beijing CBD.

Line 2, a rectangular loop line, traces the Ming-era city wall that once surrounded the inner city, and stops at each of the wall's 12 gates (ending in men), now busy intersections, as well as the Beijing Railway Station.

Line 5, a straight north-south line just east of the city centre. It passes the Temple of the Earth, Lama Temple and the Temple of Heaven.

Line 10, a "┐"-shaped route to the north and east of Line 2. It follows the Yuan-era city wall in the north, passing just south of the Olympic Green. At the Sanyuanqiao, northeast of the city, Line 10 turns straight south and follows the eastern 3rd Ring Road through the embassy district and Beijing CBD.

Olympic Branch Line (Line 8 Phase I) extends north off Line 10 with three stops in the Olympic Green.

Line 13 arcs across suburbs north of the city and channels commuters to Xizhimen and Dongzhimen, at the northwest and northeast corners of Line 2.

Line Batong extends Line 1 eastward from Sihui to suburban Tongzhou District.

The Airport Line connects the Beijing Capital International Airport, 27 km northeast of the city, with Line 10 at Sanyuanqiao and Lines 2 and 13 at Dongzhimen.