Shanghai To Hangzhou: Train

After 3 days in Shanghai, I have pre-planned to visit 'the most beautiful Chinese city' - Hangzhou.

I had bought my fast/ bullet train ticket just on the day prior - with the help of the hotel staff. He was kind enough & actually brought me all the way to the ticketing agent about 500m from the hotel (now this is really service! - and we're not talking about 5 star hotel!)

I first arrived at this rather modern & huge structure - the Shanghai train station.

However, I found it a lil hard to navigate inside - with not much English directions. And it was also hard to find places to eat.

After asking around a fair bit, I managed to get to the lower level - and found one of the fast food joints selling local dishes. This was already near the metro train.

After lunch, I went up to the waiting room (this was before it got crowded).

And not long later, I was up on the bullet train, which was really comfortable. And they even have food (for purchase). A very pleasant ride & a good bargain (at 60+ yuan).

1.5 hours later, I arrive at Hangzhou's station - which wasn't really the same like mega Shanghai's (not yet maybe?).

Waited at the long queue for a taxi/ cab for about 20mins... and shortly afterwards, I was in this postcard town: Hangzhou! That's up next!