Beijing Subway
The Beijing Subway is the rapid transit system of Beijing Municipality that consists of 30 lines including 25 rapid transit lines, two airport rail links, one maglev line and two light rail tram lines, and 541 stations.
The Beijing Subway is the rapid transit system of Beijing Municipality that consists of 30 lines including 25 rapid transit lines, two airport rail links, one maglev line and two light rail tram lines, and 541 stations. The rail network extends 909 km (565 mi) across 12 urban and suburban districts of Beijing and into one district of Langfang in neighboring Hebei province. In December 2023, Beijing Subway became the world's longest metro system by route length, surpassing the Shanghai Metro. With 3.8484 billion trips delivered in 2018 and single-day ridership record of 13.7538 million set on July 12, 2019, the Beijing Subway was the world's busiest metro system in the years immediately prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Getting to Beijing Subway
- Airports
- Beijing Capital (PEK), 25 km · Beijing Daxing (PKX), 46 km · Tianjin Binhai (TSN), 120 km
- Beijing → Beijing Subway1 km · quickest by road, 4 min · ¥0.5
- Tianjin → Beijing Subway92 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · ¥42–55
- Shijiazhuang → Beijing Subway256 km · quickest by road, 4h 10m · ¥110–150
- 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 Beijing Subway
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 Beijing Subway. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundMinibuses are very common in the countryside outside the urban areas.
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