Get to and Get around Chongqing

Chongqing is located in southwestern China; it’s a modern city with several international flights already open, and easily accessible via airways, road ways and railways inside China.

Direct international flights - How to get in and out?

San Francisco (short stay in Beijing); Los Angeles (short stay in Shanghai); Sydney; Tokyo; Seoul; Hong Kong; Macau; Taipei; Bangkok; Phuket; Singapore; Doha; Helsinki

For cities that don’t have direct flights available to/in Chongqing yet, you could still easily transfer from Hong Kong, Doha, Guangzhou, Shanghai or Beijing etc., depending on where your departure/destination cities are.

The traffic means available inside Chongqing city includes, bus, taxi, metro, motorcycle, tricycle and ropeway. Bicycle usually serves as a sport or entertainment here as you could imagine, cycling in a mountain city like Chongqing could be quite a challenge.

If you plan for staying a bit longer and don’t mind exploring public transportation, do get a Chongqing Traffic Card (the image at the center of the image below) at any metro station; it could not only be used (at a discount) for all public transportation vehicles except for motorcycle, tricycle and taxi (not fully covered yet right now), but also for daily life expenses like in some shops, supermarkets, parks, museums, cinemas etc.

Do remember to bring your passport while booking a train ticket as all train tickets in China need to be registered under the real passenger’s name. If booking from a selling window outside the railway station, you need to pay an extra 5 Yuan for each ticket.

Traffic Options in Chongqing