How to Get from Beijing to Terracotta Warriors 2024/2025

Option 1 - By High Speed Bullet Train: Beijing Xian High Speed Rail, started operation from December 26, 2012, has been a very favorite HSR in China, and it cuts the previous journey time from 15 hours to 4.5 hours to 6 hours, even realizes one day tour to Terracotta Warrior from Beijing, visit Luoyang, Zhengzhou, Huashan in the middle. It’s fast, clean, comfortable, punctual, well-serviced and can be pleasantly scenic for some parts.

Generally, there are about 20 daily high speed bullet trains (all G Trains) departing from Beijing West Railway Station (北京西站) to Xian North Railway Station (西安北站), from around 6:30 in the early morning to about 19:00 in the evening. You can choose Second/First Class Seat or the luxury Business Class Seat (most expensive).

Useful Links: Beijing Xian High Speed Train/ Beijing to Xian Bullet Trains Schedules/ Xian to Beijing Bullet Trains Schedules

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Option 2 - By Overnight Sleeper Train: If you have enough time and plan a budget travel, this kind may be your best choice, for the ticket is much cheaper, and naturally you save accommodation cost for one night. Just prepare yourself mentally the train runs in normal speed, much slower, also you need to share a compartment with strangers, few trains might stop more than 10 stations en route.

So far, Beijing delivers 9 ordinary trains (K/T/Z series trains) from Beijing West Railway Station (北京西站) and Beijing Railway Station (北京站) to Xian Railway Station (西安站). The trains leaves Beijing from 13:00 in the afternoon and arrives in Xian the next morning, after 12 hours to 17 hours running.

Useful Links: Xian Train Stations/ Normal Trains in China

Distance: about 48 km/30 mi

▶ Direct Tourist Bus: High speed train travelers taking same-day train tickets can buy entrance tickets to Terracotta Warriors, or Huaqing Pool (华清池), Mount Li (骊山) with a free tourist bus transfer between 8:00am to 16:00pm each day.

▶ Taxi: about 1 hour, cost nearly CNY 150.

▶ Public Transportation: Metro Line 2 +Metro Line 1+ Bus No.307, about 2.5 hours, less than CNY 20.

● Xian Railway Station to Terracotta Warriors

1.Tourist Bus: Line 5, about 2 hours and CNY 7.

2.Taxi: about 1 hour, CNY 120.

3.Public Transportation: over 2 hours, including direct Bus 914, Bus 915, subway with bus, etc.

Attention: Since Xian Railway Station was made reconstruction from October 24, 2019, the Tourist Bus Line 5, city bus 914, 915 and some buses have been already moved to other bus stations. There are buses transfer from Xian Train Station to the new places. (Tourist Bus 5 → Fangzhicheng Bus Station 纺织城客运站； Bus 914 & 915 → Sanfuwan Bus Station 三府湾客运站)

● Xian South Railway Station to Terracotta Warriors

1.Taxi: about 70 minutes, CNY 170 or more.

2.Public Transportation: about 3 hours, needs transfer to downtown first and take additional buses, which is too complicated, time wasting, not recommended.

Useful Links: How to Get from Xian Train Station to Terracotta Warriors

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