Shenyang Transportation

There's a bus 218 that goes from near Zhong Jie and the Imperial Palace to East Tomb that takes about 1 hour.
On the way back we took another bus that only took half the time. IIRC it should be bus 168, it also runs to Shenyang North train station.

Take a Shenyang -- Benxi minibus (15 RMB) from the long-distance bus station.
Then take one of the red buses going towards Xiao3 Shi4 (8 RMB) and tell the bus driver you want to get off at "shui3 dong4". There's a petrol station with a red roof at the turn-in to the caves, on your right.
If you end up on a bus like mine, the driver will be playing one of those irritating gun fight movies and you can't hear the driver yelling the destination. Or even if you can hear him, chances are that you won't understand what he's saying. So try to sit in front near him and be on the lookout!

When negotiating a taxi fare from the city to the airport make sure you ask whether it includes the toll for the toll road to the airport and the second toll to enter the airport.

Together they will cost and extra Y10.

Recently traveled from Anshan City to Shenyang and back again by coach. The quallity of coach is high (compaired to the busses and minibusses). They have storage space under for baggage and overhead store for small items. The coach was airconditioned. Total journey time was about 1hour 50 mins each way. Costs varied. Going was 21.5 yuan, back was 25 yuan. Ask the price before boarding.

You will need a chinese assistant to get you on the right coach. There will probably be no english signs to tell you which coach, when it travels or where the pickup/dropoff points are. My coach droped me to the south of the city and a further 15 yaun taxi was required to get the main shopping area near Zhongshan Street.

Shenyang Bei Station seems to be Shenyang's main rail station these days, and ists, like most big city Chinese railway stations at the back of a huge plaza. As always, the various entrances are clearly marked in Chinese and English. The ticket office is in the centre of the building (tothe right of McDonalds) and the main entrance is to the left. All departures require you to go up the escalator to the first floor. The station is modern and well-equipped, and is being further refurbished as well.
Annoucements were made in English as well, which is probably the only English-language information provided in the entire city!

Despite the fistfight at the airport (see separate review), Shenyang taxi drivers are remarkably friendly, and rather astonishingly, seem to know their way around the city. Taxis are generally clean and air-conditioned (unlike the decrepit wrecks prowling the streets of Chongqing), and the driving is restrained. Possibly the best taxis in China, and that includes the Passat and Mercedes taxis in Hangzhou - they would be good if they didn't try to rip off passengers on every single journey to and from the airport.

The old terminal at Shenyang Airport stands, forlorn, alongside the vast new terminal. You know its an airport terminal only because of the big signs: there are few aircraft to give the game away. It's another terminal in which you can see the curvature of the earth along the departure lounge and the baggage carousels.
On arrival, fights break out among taxi-drivers for your custom. I had to wait and watch two taxi-drivers punching and grappling with each other to see who was going to take me the 20km into town. It was an odd, primitive form of free-market capitalism. Thank God Shenyang taxi drivers aren't armed, or there would be a lot of burials at the airport.

zhongshan lu leads you to zhongshan square where has a chairman mao's statue.

zhongshan lu is a historical road in shenyang. there are many european and japanese building on both sides. now it is a famous commercial street with a lot of high building and brand store.