By Air

Airport Code: CSX

Location: Huanghua Town, 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) to the city center

Brief Intro: The largest and best-equipped airport in Hunan Province, Changsha Huanghua International Airport is also famous as one of the top 20 busiest airports in China. Its terminal building, built in 1986 and enlarged in 2000 to cover an area of 34,000 sq m (8 acres), is capable of handling 4,600,000 passengers every year and 1,890 at peak hours. Apart from a 2,600-meter-long (1.6 miles) runway and a taxi track of the equal length, the airport is also equipped with such communication navigation systems as ILS, VOR/DME, NDB and advanced ground security facilities, which enable it to handle Boeing 737, 757, 767 and A320, etc. International flights to Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong are available while over 60 air routes connect it to more than 40 domestic cities.

Facilities:
Xinta Shopping Center: north end of the Departures Hall (Level 2)
Xinta Shopping Counters: Lounge 1-7, Lounge 10
Xinta Supermarkets: Lounge 10 (Level 2), north end of the Arrivals Hall (Level 1) Yinlu Tea House: south end of the Departures Hall
Jingui Restaurant: north end of the Departures Hall
Coffee Time: Lounge 4
Jingui Tea House: Lounge 6
Jinxiangge Restaurant: Lounge 7
Yixiangyuan Restaurant: south end of Level 1 Arrivals Hall
Commercial Lounges: Expedited boarding procedures and friendly service can be enjoyed in the commercial lounges, which are located at the south end of Level 2 Departures Hall.
Tel: 0731-4797606

Services:
Airport Hotlines: 0731-4797255, 0731-4798777
Information Desks: The information desks situated in the center of the Departures Hall, Lounge 6 and the Arrivals Hall are available for flight information and boarding procedure, copying and faxing services as well as arranging the special needs of seniors, the disabled or unaccompanied children.
Lost&Found: the information desk in the center of the Departures Hall, 0731-4797255
Ticketing: south entrance of the Departures Hall, 0731-4798666, 0731-4799666
China Southern Airlines: north entrance of the Departures Hall, 0731-4787666

Transportation:
Airport shuttle buses ply the main roads between the airport and the city center (Civil Aviation Hotel and South Bus Station); a single trip takes about 40 minutes. You can take the shuttles from the front of the Civil Aviation Hotel (Minhang Jiudian) at No.75, Wuyi Road (East) at CNY15 per person; the shuttles pass by Liuyang River Bridge, Wanjiali Avenue and the 2nd Round Line. The first bus leaves at 06:20 and the last one serves the final flight; buses depart every 30 minutes each day. The shuttle buses plying between the airport and the South Bus Station pass by Airport Expressway, Wanjiali Avenue and Shaoshan Road (South); a single trip costs CNY15.

In the city center, city bus No.114 from the railway station goes to and from the airport between 06:30 and 18:30. The single trip takes approximately one hour. You can take a taxi. A taxi ride from the airport to the city center costs CNY100.

The following timetable gives information about the airport shuttle buses which ply between the airport and four surrounding cities for reference:

By Train

As an important hub of the national Jingguang Railway (Beijing-Guangzhou), Changsha benefits from rail connections to almost every major city in China. The railway station is located at Chezhan Road in the east end of the city. City-buses of Nos.108, 110, 113 from the city center will take you there. In the very west end of Hunan Province, is Feng Huang Cheng (Phoenix Town), which claims to be the most beautiful town in China. For backpackers who want to go there, take City Bus No.114 to the railway station and board a train to Jishou City.

Changsha Railway Station
Train Info Enquiry: 0731-2637122 (operator)
Train Info Enquiry: 0731-2634567 (auto-respond)
Train Complaint: 0731-2637182, 2637252

Ticket: You can only book your tickets up to five days in advance of your travel date. However, it should be appreciated that sometimes this ticket pre-sell period may be adjusted when demand is heavy. The following table shows the locations of the various agencies so you can find the one nearest to where you intend to stay.

By Water

Dongting Lake, China's second largest freshwater lake is located in Hunan Province; the waterways connecting it to Changsha provide access to the great Yangtze. Ships leaving from Changsha carry passengers to Shanghai, Nanjing, Lianyungang and other ports of call along the Yangtze. The inland water navigation is highly developed and Changsha Passenger Port has regular shipping to many cities around the Dongting Lake in Hunan Province including Yueyang, Yiyang, Xiangtan, Jinshi, Shaping and Changde. The schedule below is for reference only:

Enquiry: 0731-2222307

By Long-distance Bus

Changsha is the hub of three inter-province freeways including No.107 Freeway (Beijing–Shenzhen), No.391 Freeway (Chengdu–Xiamen) and No.106 Freeway. A well developed highway network connects Changsha with many major cities in China and buses leaving from the three Long-distance Bus Stations in Changsha serve most of the eastern part of the country. Although it is impossible to list all the destinations that can be reached from the three bus stations; we have listed a selection of the main and most popular ones for reference.

East Bus Station
Address: Shiyuanda Yi Road
Destinations: Hefei, Nanchang, Xiamen, Nanjing and neighboring cities in Hunan Province
Enquiry: 0731- 4611731
South Bus Station
Address: No.643, Shizhongyi Yi Road
Destinations: Guilin, Xiamen, Nanjing and neighboring cities in Hunan Province
Enquiry: 0731-5630505
West Bus Station
Address: Xiaoxiang Road (North)
Destinations: neighboring cities in Hubei and Hunan provinces
Enquiry: 0731-8816332

Intercity Commuters:
At the south of Friendship and Apollo Commercial Square, which is a busy shopping area in the northwestern corner of the railway station, there are regular buses that leave for Zhuzhou and Xiangtan, which are the cities where most travelers change trains from the north-south Jingguang (Beijing-Guangzhou) Railway to continue their journeys in either an easterly or westerly direction.