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For sightseeing in
Nanjing, taxis provide the best mode of
transportation. This is the best type of
transport in Nanjing to move from one tourist
attraction to another tourist attraction in
Nanjing. Visitors may also use the
tourist bus which stops at most of the main
places of interest in the city.
By Air
The Nanjing Lukou
International Airport is 35.8 kilometers from the city.
Completed in July 1997, this large airport has
65 domestic air routes radiating to over 20
provinces, municipalities and autonomous
regions, Hong Kong and Macao in China, as well
as international air routes to Seoul and Kuala
Lumpur. Chartered planes fly back and forth
between Nanjing to Nagoya and Bangkok. To get to
the airport, there is a minibus service that
takes you there from Hanzhong Road (opposite the
Sheraton Nanjing Kingsley Hotel).
Telephone for Lukou
Airport: 025-52480488
Air Ticket Offices:
Ticket Office in
Nanjing Xinghan Building
Address: 180
Hangzhong Road
Telephone:
025-86505015
Nanjing Business
Department of the Shanghai Airlines Co. Ltd.
Address: 2-10 Ruijin
Road
Telephone:
025-84499757
By Rail
The
Beijing-Shanghai, Nanjing-Tongli railways meet
in Nanjing. The city has four railway stations,
namely Nanjing Railway Station, Nanjing West
Railway Station, Nanjing North Railway Station
and Nanjing South Railway Station. Everyday many
express and quick trains leave Nanjing for the
other parts of the country.
Nanjing Railway
Station
Tel: 025-85822222
Nanjing West Railway
Station
Tel: 025-85835222
Tel for Ticket
Office: 025-58770352
Nanjing North
Railway Station
Tel: 025-88851205
Nanjing South
Railway Station
Tel: 025-52414183
Steamboats
Nanjing is one of
the important ports on the lower reaches of the
Yangtze River. The port in Nanjing covers an
area of 93.866 million square meters and the Nanjing Port
Passenger Transport Station is the largest wharf
for shipping passengers. Steamboats ship
passengers to Chongqing on the upper reaches and
to Shanghai on the lower reaches with annual
passenger traffic of 1.5 million persons. The
New Nanjing Port can hold luxury pleasure boats.
By Urban Transport
Facilities
At present Nanjing
has more than 2,000 public buses including
double-deck buses, luxury tourist buses and
urban sightseeing buses with dense bus routes.
These public transport in Nanjing is both
efficient and cheap. Taxis in Nanjing charge 1.6 yuan per km with the
starting price of 7 yuan for the first 3 km.
Taxis can be easily spotted along the main streets
while motor-tricycles is also common.
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