Datong’s train station is in the city’s northern outskirts, at the end of a Bei Jie, far from any of the sights. A major railhead at the intersection of a line to Xl’an and the line between Belling and Baotou, this is the first stop in China for trains from Mongolia, and it makes a harsh, disorientating introduction to the country for passengers stepping off the train from Ulan Batur. Grimy and cavernous, the station is usually thronged with passengers, many of them peas- ants migrating in search of construction work, their possession, tied up in grain sacks. Hotel touts wave signs at the crush of arriving passengers emerging from the platform gates on the station’s west side. They mostly represent places which won’t accept foreigners, though often they’ll tell you they do. More use- fully, you may be grabbed by a representative of the extremely helpful station CIT$ office, at first indistinguishable from the pushy touts and taxi drivers. If be misses you, the office, inside the station, on the west side, is a recommended first stop, a good place to get your bearings and meet other travelers and, unusually, to receive advice and information.

Trains to Datong
Train Number Departure City Departure Time Arrival Time
4433/4432 Beijing 11:35 19:10
4437/4436 Beijing 22:58 06:55 (the next day)
K256/K257 Shanghai (west station) 00:48 02:29 (the next day)
1592/1593 Zhengzhou 15:47 12:49 (the next day)
1676/1673 Xi’an 14:30 08:22 (the next day)
K44 Beijing 09:30 13:55
1456/1457 Beijing 07:12 12:02
K746 Taiyuan 14:40 20:10
7068 Taiyuan 07:34 16:50
2178/2179 Taiyuan 13:17 20:33

Trains from Datong
Train Number Arrival City Departure Time Arrival Time
K745 Taiyuan 08:00 13:41
1625/1628 Taiyuan 09:00 15:37
K4 Beijing 08:35 15:33
K44 Beijing 14:03 20:09
1674/1675 Xi’an 18:20 12:22 (the next day)
Y409/Y412 Xi’an 15:40 10:50 (the next day)
K43 Hohhot 16:37 20:44
1676/1673 Hohhot 08:46 13:08

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