Hangzhou Huangshan High Speed Train

“Above there is heaven and below are Suzhou and Hangzhou”. Hangzhou as a heavenly city, has long been a preferred city to appreciate the beauty of nature and pure your mind. The most shining highlight is absolutely the West Lake, which has quite different but splendid scenery during four seasons. Cycling, strolling, cruising or sitting there are all very nice tries. Also, you could go to Lingyin Temple to enjoy the sculptures and calm yourself in this tranquil place. Not far away, the Longjing Tea Plantation is really a wonderful site for getting closer to nature, knowing about the culture and history of Chinese Longjing Tea and taking some high quality photos. Besides, you could go to Hefang Street to trace the flavor of the ancient Hangzhou and taste the special Hangzhou food in an honored brand restaurant. At night, you could go to enjoy the Most Memorial is Hangzhou Show at West Lake, which was a successful show during the G20 Summit in Hangzhou in 2016. Furthermore, the musical fountain shows and light shows at West Lake, Qianjiang New Town, and Wulingmen area are also highly recommended to enrich your nightlife in this beautiful city. And if you have more time, you would not miss the Xixi Wetland Park, Wuzhen and Xitang water towns, Liuhe Pagoda, and so forth.

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Hangzhou East Railway Station (Hangzhoudong Railway Station 杭州东站)

Location：No. 2, Quanfuqiao Road, Jianggan District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province (杭州江干区天城路185号 杭州东站); driving about 7km to the downtown.

Transportation: Taxi, bus lines and Hangzhou Metro line 1, 4 are available there. You could take the airport shuttle bus Hangzhou East Railway Station Line to Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport for about 1 hour. If you take a taxi or drive, it would take about 35 minutes to Liuhe Pagoda, 1 hour to Meijiawu Longjing Tea Plantation, 50 minutes to China National Tea Museum, 1 hour to Xixi National Wetland Park, about 1.5 hours to Wuzhen Water Town and Xitang Water Town, etc. Moreover, you could take a long distance coach from the Coach Station at Hangzhou East Station to Wuzhen for about 2 hours. Coaches to Xitang are available there as well.

Hangzhou South Railway Station (杭州南站)

Location：No.1, Zhanqian Road, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China (浙江省杭州市萧山区站前路1号), about 17 km & 40 minutes to Hangzhou downtown

Transportation: Hangzhou South Railway Station is about 17 kilometers from Hangzhou downtown and 23 kilometers from Hangzhou West Lake (northwest gate). Compared with Hangzhou Railway Station and Hangzhou East Railway Station, it is relatively further to Hangzhou downtown. However, it is a little bit closer to Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport, which takes half an hour or so by car. The station has trains to/from Shanghai (1.5~2 hours), Suzhou (2.5 hours), Huangshan (1.5 hours), etc.

Beautiful West Lake in Hanghzou

Lingyin Temple

People Taste Longjing Tea

Hangzhou East Railway Station

Hangzhou South Railway Station

With the same Chinese name, Huanshan City in Southern Anhui Province is the location of the famous Yellow Mountain and an important cradle of Huizhou culture and history. Therefore, every visitor is highly recommended to visit Huangshan Mountain, a World Natural and Cultural Heritage Site to appreciate its spectacular sea of clouds, sunrise, sunset, mountain landscape, strange stones, peculiar pines, and hot springs. After the hiking trip, you can spend more time touring Hongcun and Xidi Ancient Villages, and other old villages nearby to encounter the old structures of Anhui style and shoot some nice pictures of the harmonious primitive settlement.

In Downtown Huangshan City (Tunxi), you can take a leisurely stroll in Tunxi Ancient Street to go savoring the Huizhou structures of hundreds of years, taste some local snacks and enjoy the fragrance of ink, and visit the prestigious Hu Kaiwen Ink-stick Factory to know more about the Chinese brush, ink, paper and ink stone. Want an in-depth exploration in and around Huangshan City, you can pay a visit to Huizhou Ancient City to see a series of Huizhou old buildings, to Tangyue Memorial Archways to learn those touching virtuous stories behind, to Nanping, Guanlu, Chengkan and other sites to view characteristic old village layout, pretty and serene countryside scenery.

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Huangshan North Railway Station (Huangshanbei 黄山北站)

Location: Hongcun Avenue, Xixinan Town, Tunxi District, Huangshan City, Anhun Province (安徽省黄山市屯溪区西溪南镇宏村大道 黄山北站); driving about 17km to the downtown.

Transportation: From Huangshan North Railway Station, you can take the coach at Huanhshan Tourism Passenger Transport Hub behind Huangshan Borth Railway Station to Mount Huang, Hongcun Ancient Village, Xidi Ancient Village, Tangyue Scenic Area, Chengkan, etc. It needs about 55 minutes to drive to Mount Huang Scenic Area, about 75 minutes to Hongcun Ancient Village, about 1 hour to Xidi Ancient Village, and about 30 minutes to Hu Kaiwen Ink-stick Factory, etc. Huangshan North Railway Station >

Picturesque Yellow Mountain

Tianhai (Flying Over Rock) of Mount Huangshan

Hongcun Ancient Village in April

Huangshan North Railway Station

Qiandaohu Town, China is located in the western suburb of Hangzhou city, about 129km west from Hangzhou and 130km southeast from Huangshan. Qiandao Lake, about 7km from Qiandaohu Town, is an artificial lake with 1078 islands of different sizes and diverse shapes dotted sparsely and densely. It is well known as the "Top 3 Thousand Island Lakes in the World" and praised as “The Best Water in China”. Thousand Island Lake China, famous for the deep water, fresh and tender fish and sweet mountain spring water. The scenery of Qiandao Lake is not only as exquisite as Guilin mountains and rivers, but also as magnificent as the tremendous momentum of Dongting Lake. Meifeng Island, Huangshanjian and Longshan Island, etc are highlights in Qiandao Lake Scenic Area you can’t miss. Besides, Qiandao Lake is also one of the most popular resort destinations near Shanghai and Hangzhou and a perfect place for cycling.

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Qiandaohu Railway Station (千岛湖站)

Location: Location: Wenchang Village, Wenchang Town, Chun’an County, Hangzhou (杭州市淳安县文昌镇文昌村)

Transportation: Qiandaohu Railway Station (千岛湖站) is 28km away from Thousand Island Lake Scenic Area and about 25km away from Qiandaohu Town, which takes about 30-40 minutes by taxi. There are more than 33 high-speed trains run Hangzhou to Qiandao Lake every day from 6:45 - 22:18. The whole journey only takes 50 - 70 minutes. Besides, there are also high-speed trains to/from Shanghai (2-2.5 hours), Huangshan (30-40 minutes), Suzhou (2.5-3 hours), Wuxi (2.5-3 hours), etc.

Overlook from Huangshanjian

Qiandaohu Railway Station

Wuyuan County is now under the jurisdiction of Shangrao city, Jiangxi province. Wuyuan offers many peculiar beautiful views for tourist friends from all over the universe. Huangling is one of the top highlights, where you could see the crops of different colored being dried in the sun by the locals, which is regarded the “most beautiful symbol of China” reflecting one social life style in our country. Moreover, the special terrace landform and the white and black Hui style houses combine together there in good tune, which makes an idyllic village garden painting.

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Wuyuan Railway Station (婺源站)

Location: Location: Jiangwan Avenue, Wuyuan County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province(江西省上饶市婺源县江湾大道 婺源站); driving about 4km to the downtown.

Transportation: It needs about 1 hour to drive to Huangling Scenic Area, about 18 minutes to Likeng, about 50 minutes to Wengong Hill, about 35 minutes to Jiangwan, etc.

Shicheng Village in Wuyuan

Wuyuan Railway Station

Besides the above highlights in Hangzhou, you also could visit the Mount Sanqingshan National Park by stopping at Shangrao Railway Station. That mountain scenic area is one of China’s World Natural Heritage Sites and World Geoparks. There is not only splendid natural sightseeing of mountains, rocks, ancient trees, famous floras, springs and waterfalls, sea of clouds and waves of mists, etc., but also featured charm of Taoism and humanism, which is an ideal place to have fun and get relaxed.

Shangrao Railway Station (上饶站)

Location: Songshan Village, Lingxi Town, Xinzhou District, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province (江西省上饶市信州区灵溪镇松山村 上饶站); driving about 10km to the downtown.

Transportation: Shangrao Coach Terminal Station have coaches to Sanqing Mountain for about 1.5 hours. It needs about 2 hours to drive to Longhu Mountain, about 1.5 hours to Sanqing Mountain, etc. Shangrao Railway Station is located about 7km away from Shangrao Coach Terminal Station.

Sanqing Mountain in Shangrao

Shangrao Railway Station

Located in northest of Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen, the world famous “Capital of Porcelain” attracts numerous tourists for its long history and excellent artistry of ceramic. In Jingdezhen, you can see different styles of chinaware, abundant collections in the museums. Moreover, you can closely see how to make a beautiful porcelain by the skilled workman, even join in a class to enjoy a DIY porcelain making experience, design a unique souvenir for yourself.

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Jingdezhen North Railway Station (Jingdezhenbei 景德镇北站)

Location: near 032 Country Highway, Zhushan District, Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province (江西省 景德镇市珠山区032乡道附近)

Transportation: Jingdezhen North Railway Station is a new high speed train station built in the north of Jingdezhen City. It takes about 30 minutes (12km) to drive to the ingdezhen Ancient Kiln and Folk Customs Museum, 20 minutes (9km) to Hutian Ancient Kiln Site, half an hour to Jingdezhen Museum of Porcelain.

Jingdezhen Ancient Kiln and Folk Customs Museum

Jingdezhen North Railway Station