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There is a China Rail ticket window on the second floor (first floor=ground floor) of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China on the corner right in front of the Hyatt Regency hotel (+/- 1,5 km straight south from the train station and +/- 1,5 km east of the Bell Tower).
Office hours: 09:00-12:00 and 14:00-16:00.
Only a couple of people queuing here and the service is very fast.
The staff who served us did not speak one word English (I did not hear/see her utter a single Chinese word to her Chinese customers either), but was extremely efficient in communicating in writing (train number, departure/arrival times, price, etc.). Very easy and fast to buy train tickets here.
Address: on the north/east corner of the intersection of Dongda Jie (east-west) and Jiefang Lu (north-south). The black circle in the right lower quarter of the map indicates the intersection where the office is located.
Aknowledgement: the map is a copy of a free leaflet edited by the Tourism Bureau Of Shaanxi Province and made available at hotel desks. If anybody objects to the use of this map on my tip, please contact me.
Updated Sep 2, 2005
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Thought the taxi situation couldn't get much worse than Beijing Zhan, but Xian has successfully managed to do that.
When you come out of the doors into a true mass of people, there is absolutely no sign of taxis or where to go for them.
There are plenty of taxi touts who will find you, but these are just 'brokers' who will then find a taxi and mark the price up substantially. If you do not have much luggage, then it is better to walk straight ahead PAST the big blue hoardings and the taxis are on the left hand side on the other side of the hoardings (taxis here are bright green).
If you have a lot of luggage, then you may have to just pay the rip-off rate. (We paid RMB100 for a minibus for 6 to the southside of the city....two taxis would have cost us around RMB28)...and this was after a lot of negotiating in Chinese. The one satisfaction was that we managed to avoid paying the taxi tout 'broker' anything because she lied to us about the price and we and the minibus driver refused to have anything to do with her!
Written May 9, 2004
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Picture at left is my ticket from Xian to Lanzhou cost RMB94 seated. --306-- To visit The Terracotta Warriors, remember (No.306) Big green bus, not those mini-bus with fake 306 tag. Yes, you want to see Terracotta warriors but you don't know how to get there? I repeat again, it's --306-- Big green bus, it takes only 20-30 minutes. If you take the fake 306, then you need 3 hours to get there, I don't know why but they will send you to jade shop, tea garden or medicine research center. You pay RMB5 only. The location is just outside the railway station, stand and wait but hey not easy, there will have many peoples trying to pull you into their fake 306.
To get around city of Xian is very easy, you can buy a local roadmap at railway station for only RMB1.
Written Aug 25, 2002
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I went to Xi'an from Beijing by train (soft-sleeper) on both occasions. It was fun for the first time and the experience is worth it but if I return to Xi'an I will prefer airplanes (China Northwest Airlines flies to Xi'an mostly). It takes about 14 hours from Beijing to Xi'an and the train mostly goes at night so most of the time it's dark and you don't see much of the landscape.
Written Aug 24, 2002
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(date took the train: Oct. 31, 2006)
Xi'an - Shanghai
Train Fare: 182 Yuan
Hard Sleep
Car # 10
Seat # 85
Departure time: 21:50
Arrival time: next day
Written Oct 31, 2006
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The Night Train. Only 417 yuan from Beijing for forst class tickets (soft sleeper).
Written Sep 8, 2002
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The railroad network has connected Xi'an with all major cities in China and made Xi'an the traffic switch center between northwestern China and its other parts.
Written Aug 24, 2002
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