Taiyuan Transportation

By Air
Taiyuan Wusu Airport is located in the south suburb of Taiyuan, about 18 kilometers (11.2 miles) from the downtown area. Direct flights are available from Taiyuan to some major cities including Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guilin, Nanjing, Shenyang and Xian.
Taiyuan has opened to five international air lines since July, 2005 with flights connecting Taiyuan with Frankfurt, Paris, London, New York and San Francisco with all of these flights making a stopover in Beijing.
The Taiyuan Wusu Airport has been under an expansion program since March, 2006 and is due to be finished at the end of 2007. The new airport will become an international airport and will serve the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 as a supplementary airport to Beijing Capital International Airport.

By train
Taiyuan is the starting point of Taiyuan-Jiaozhou line and the terminus of the Beijing-Taiyuan and Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan lines. Trains from here link large cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Xian, Chengdu and Baotou.

By Bus
The expressway from Taiyuan to Jiuguan is the first expressway built in Shanxi Province and connects Yuci City, Shouyang County, Yangquan City and Pingding County. From here, you can reach Beijing from Taiyuan within five hours. The bus station is at the Taiyuan Long-Distance Bus Station, east of Yingze Dajie.
There is also an expressway operating between Taiyuan and Yuanping with this route offering convenient links to Wutai Mountain from Taiyuan. There are also buses to Overhanging Temple in Hunyuan County and the Yingxian County Wooden Pagoda is also available from here. Outside the Dianli Dasha there are buses heading for Datong City directly, taking about five hours. Furthermore, expressways linking Taiyuan and Gujiao and Wenshui are also available.
There are coaches heading for Datong from Taiyuan Railway Station at a cost of about CNY 72. You can take the coach to Pingyao from Jiannan Coach Station, and from Taiyuan Coach Terminal to Datong City of Shanxi. Please be careful not confuse one with the other when taking the coach.
Taiyuan is near to Pingyao Ancient City and you can take a coach from the Coach Station on the Yingze Dajie (Yingze Avenue). The whole journey takes about two hours .
You can get to Wutai Mountain by coach from the Taiyuan Long-Distance Bus Station. There are coaches running to Wutai Mountain every 30 minutes from the station. The whole journey takes between four and five hours .