By Long-distance Bus

The 11 main coach bus stations of Yantai are Yantai Coach Bus Terminal, Qingnian Lu Coach Bus Station, Yantai West Coach Bus Station, Beima Lu Coach Bus Station, Yantai East Coach Bus Station, Penglai Coach Bus Station, Mouping Coach Bus Station, Laizhou Coach Bus Station, Laiyang Coach Bus Station, Zhaoyuan Coach Bus Station and Qixia Coach Bus Station. At present, these stations have set up the long-distance network of selling tickets, so you can buy the tickets of the starting stations or round-trips from any station. Additionally, many branch post offices of Yantai sell the tickets. Here gives some addresses of these post offices.

South Avenue Branch
Location: No.8 Yudong Road, Yantai
Bus route: No.1, 2, 5, 10, 21, 22, 43, 44, 45, 46
Huanhai Branch 
Location: No.1 Huanhai Road, Yantai
Bus route: No.2, 10, 15, 42, 44, 56
Jiefang Branch
Location: No.3 Jiefang Road, Yantai
Bus route: No.2, 3, 6, 49, 53
Erma Branch
Location: No.22 Erma Road, Yantai
Bus route: No.1, 3, 5, 10, 18. 50, 53
Shanxia Branch
Location: No.28 Haian Road, Yantai 
Bus route: 3, 6, 10, 17, 43, 46

It is best to use the Yantai Coach Bus Terminal (No.86 West Avenue, Zhifu District, Yantai) for the long-distance bus, because there are more routes and it's the largest station. Here is some bus information for this station:

June 26, 2008

To:	Departure Time	Ticket Price
Jinan	05:00,06:00, 07:40, 09:00,09:30, 10:40, 11:20
	07:00, 08:20, 10:00	CNY138
	12:00, 12:45	CNY128
	13:15, 14:00, 14:40, 15:20, 16:10, 16:50, 17:20	CNY128
Jining	09:15	CNY165
	08:00, 14:30	CNY140
Penglai	06:00 to 18:00 at 30 minute intervals	CNY16
Qingdao	05:00, 06:30, 07:20, 08:50, 09:30, 10:10, 10:50, 11:30	CNY59
	12:45, 13:00, 14:00, 14:45, 15:30, 16:30	CNY59
Rizhao	05:15, 07:15, 08:00	CNY65
	11:45, 12:15, 14:45, 17:30	CNY65
	13:00, 13:45, 15:30	CNY60
Tai'an	06:45	CNY117
Heze	07:15, 12:30	CNY156
Weihai	06:55, 07:45, 08:45, 09:45, 10:45, 11:55, 12:45, 13:45, 14:45	CNY22
	11:15, 15:45, 16:45	CNY26
Zhaoyuan	05:30 to 18:00 at 30 minute intervals	CNY25
Zibo	07:45, 08:45, 10:45	CNY106
	13:30, 14:30, 16:00	CNY106

Besides the regular bus routes, the Qingnian Lu Coach Bus Station (No.36 Qingnian Road, Zhifu District, Yantai) also offers tour buses on weekends. Especially, during the Chinese Golden Weeks, it provides more tour buses. Here are the six one-day tour routes of this station:

To:	Departure Time	Time of Return
Yangma Island	08:00, 10:00, 14:30, 16:00	07:30, 10:00, 14:30, 16:00
Kunyu Mountain (in Mouping City, Yantai)	08:30	15:00
Yantaishan Mountain - Binhai Plaza - Chateau Changyu Casta	08:30	15:00
Yantaishan Mountain - Binhai Plaza - Agricultural Science and Technology Exposition Garden of Yantai	08:30	15:00
Guolukuang Ecological Tourism Garden (in Qixia City, Yantai)	08:30	15:00
Zhaohu Mountain (in Haiyang City, Yantai)	08:30	15:00

And the Beima Lu Coach Bus Station (on the Beima Road and to the west of the Yantai Railway Station) offers two tour lines on weekends. One is to the Resort of Aishan Hot Spring which is located in the Songshan Town of Qixia City, Yantai. The other line is to the Mou's Manor in Qixia City.

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