Beijing Train Tickets

Inbound high-speed trains reach Beijing at different terminals depending on the corridor. Trains from Shanghai Hongqiao arrive at Beijing South in around 4h20m to 5h. Tianjin services reach Beijing South in about 30m. Trains from Xi'an North arrive at Beijing West in roughly 4h20m to 5h, while Zhengzhou East services take around 2h30m to Beijing West. From the northeast, trains from Shenyang North arrive at Beijing Chaoyang in about 2h45m to 3h30m, and Harbin West services reach Beijing Chaoyang in around 5h to 6h. Longer southbound services from Guangzhou South arrive at Beijing West in about 8h to 9h on faster G-series trains.

Beijing is one of China's largest rail hubs and the main northern node of the national high-speed network. The city uses several major passenger stations, each handling different corridors across China Railway services. Beijing South is the primary high-speed train station for the Shanghai and Tianjin corridors, while Beijing West handles key westbound and southbound high-speed routes. Trains from Beijing include G-series and D-series high-speed services, C-series intercity trains, conventional Z, T, and K trains, and selected airport-area intercity services toward Beijing Daxing International Airport. Beijing Chaoyang serves many northeast high-speed routes, Beijing North and Qinghe handle services toward Zhangjiakou and Inner Mongolia, and Beijing Fengtai supports additional long-distance operations. Rail routes from Beijing run east to Tianjin and coastal Shandong, south toward Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta, west toward Xi'an and Lanzhou, northeast toward Shenyang and Harbin, and southwest toward Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, and Guangzhou. Book trains from and to Beijing online at Rail Monsters.