By city-bus
Tianjin city-bus system consists of school bus routes, special sight-seeing routes and regular routes which include inner city and suburban lines. If you take an inner city bus route, you will pay CNY1 for twelve kilometers (about 7.5 miles) or less and CNY1.5 for more. If you take a suburb line you have to pay CNY1 for the first ten kilometers (about 6.2 miles) and CNY0.5 for each extra five kilometers (about 3.1 miles).

By taxi
Generally speaking, the taxi service in Tianjin can meet all of your needs. You can easily find taxies with makes of Xiali, Santana, Jetta or others at or around airport, railway station, hotels and tourist attractions.

The flat rate fare is CNY8 for all taxi types; while the distance surcharge varies from CNY1.5–2 per additional kilometer according to the make of taxi. If the taxi stops altogether for five minutes, for any reason, you will have to pay a surcharge equivalent to the distance surcharge for each additional kilometer. On the condition that you know the distance to your destination you can bargain with the driver and most probably save some money.

By light rail
Tianjin light railway is considered the longest throughout China with two departure stations, the light rail centers in Zhongshan Men and the Development Zone. The departure interval is fifteen minutes and the entire distance will take forty minutes and costs CNY6.

By subway
Tianjin Metro Line 1 is an extension of the original line. It starts from the junction of Nanjing Lu and Xinhua Lu and passes through six districts, Beichen, Hongqiao, Nankai, Heping, Hexi and Jinnan. Metro Line 1 runs every fifteen minutes from 5:30 to 22:30. The whole journey will take you about twelve minutes and only CNY1.