By Train
Trains depart from either Xi Zhan , if you're heading south or west, for example to Chengdu or Xi'an, or Beijing Zhan , if you're heading north or east, for example to Shanghai or Harbin. You can buy tickets with an added surcharge of around Y40 from large hotels or CITS, though it's little hassle to do it yourself direct. Tickets for busy routes should be booked at least a day in advance, and can be booked up to four days ahead. Note that you can buy tickets for trains leaving from Xi Zhan at Beijing Zhan, and vice versa; always ask or check the ticket to see which station your train leaves from. At Beijing Zhan, the Foreigners' Ticket Booking Office is at the back of the station, on the left side as you enter, and is signposted in English. At the time of writing, it was a hole in the wall; presumably they'll have built the office by the time you read this, and they may well extend the opening hours - at present it's open 5.30-7.30am, 8am-noon and 1.30-4pm, and, for same-day and surplus next-day tickets only, 7pm-9pm. The Foreigners' Ticket Booking Office at Xi Zhan, on the second floor, is to the left side as you enter the building. It boasts more windows and has longer opening hours (8am-12pm). The most painless way to buy tickets, however, is to get them from a separate ticket outlet - as these are little known, there are never any queues. There's one on the first floor in the Wangfujing Department Store at 225 Wangfujing Dajie (daily 9-11am & 1-4pm) and another in the Air China ticket office in the China World Trade Centre at 1 Jianguomenwai Dajie (daily 8am-6pm). A third outlet at the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel (daily 8am-5pm) is not easy to find; it's to the right and at the back as you enter. If you can speak Chinese, you can make it even easier for yourself by booking your ticket over the phone up to four days before your travel date (Beijing Zhan only; tel 65634672; 6-9pm only, and have your passport handy), then picking your ticket up the following morning from an office at 88 Dongsibei Dajie, at the Beijing Normal University, or at the National Cigarette Bureau at 6 Fuzhouguan Dong Jie. For train information (in Chinese only) phone 65129525
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