Ya'an
Ya'an is a prefecture-level city in the western part of Sichuan province, China, located just below the Tibetan Plateau.
Ya'an is a prefecture-level city in the western part of Sichuan province, China, located just below the Tibetan Plateau. The city is home to Sichuan Agricultural University, the only 211 Project university and the largest regional comprehensive university in Ya'an. As of the 2020 Chinese census, Ya'an has a population of 1,434,603.
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Worth seeing in and around Ya'an
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Bifengxia Panda Base
Bifengxia Giant Panda Base is a giant panda research and breeding facility in Bifengxia Town, Ya'an, Sichuan, China. Since opening in 2004, it has become home to several more giant pandas.
9.3 km · zoo in Sichuan, China · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
There is a wall-size map in the bus station; this includes Labahe Nature Reserve.
- 01Menghuo Castle
- 02ShenMuLei
It is called "the place where the immortals live".
- 03Mountain Jiaoding
- 04Dawagengza
- 05Erlangshan Horn River Scenic Area
Rich in wildlife and known as "Noah's Ark of Quaternary Glacial Species", it is full of wildlife.
- 06Niubeishan
Formerly known as Big Mine Mountain and Bison Mountain.
From Wikivoyage: Ya'an, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Ya'an
- Airports
- Chengdu Shuangliu (CTU), 106 km · Chengdu Tianfu (TFU), 139 km
- Chengdu (Shuangliu) → Ya'an110 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · ¥50–65
- Chengdu (Jianyang) → Ya'an156 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · ¥70–95
- Chongqing → Ya'an347 km · quickest by road, 5h 48m · ¥160–210
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ya'an
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ya'an. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom here you can flag down a Shangli-bound minivan or get a taxi to the Wangyu minivan depot.
- Go nextShangli bound minivans (20 min, ¥6.5) can be flagged down on the main road outside the tourist bus station.
- Go nextWangyu bound minivans (1 hr, ¥8.5) leave from a secret location known only to the local taxi drivers who park near the Tourist bus station (10 min, ¥5).
- Go nextThe minivans leave when full but will continue to pick up passengers along the way.
From Wikivoyage: Ya'an, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Ya'an – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Ya'an
- Sichuanprovince of China, previously inclusive of the present Chongqing Municipality4.1 km
- Yucheng Districtdistrict of Sichuan Province, China1 km