XiTang transportation

Is there busses or train service from XiTang back to Shanghai

XiTang transportation

no train, but there is bus,you may ask the native for where the bus station locate, normally there are lots of traveller bus from shanghai to xitang everyday, you can take any of them back to shanghai. good luck.

XiTang transportation

At Shanghai Stadium there is a bus terminal, including a bus to Xitang. It was an all day excursion, including the trip there and back. The cost was 120 RMB.

Be warned there was a shopping stop on the way back - 1.5 hours in the middle of nowhere.....

Here%26#39;s some info I posted on another forum. You need to get to Jiashan first, then you can catch a bus to Shanghai.

Xitang

Getting there:

Xitang 鈥?Jiashan: It鈥檚 around a 5-10 minute walk from the Old Town to the road to get the minibus to Jiashan. Pay on minibus (3 yuan).

From Jiashan, I think there are frequent buses to Shanghai.

At Xitang you will be met by cyclo 鈥?rickshaws. They say that they will charge 2 yuan to take you to the Old Town. Then they tell you about 60 yuan entry charge but they say not to worry, as they have 鈥榮pare鈥?tickets. At entrance they give you 鈥榮pare鈥?tickets which are punched by the ticket guy. The rickshaw will then take you to guesthouse (which probably pays him commission). He then wants 30 yuan for the journey plus getting you into old town for 鈥榝ree鈥?

This might seem a cheap way of getting in. The problem is that the 60 yuan ticket includes admission to many of the sites in the town, and anyway you can get a 30 rmb ticket and then pay for each place individually (4yuan up). Therefore, you don鈥檛 really save any money by paying the rickshaw driver direct.

*Guesthouses / hotels / rooms in Old Town: *

There seem to be many 鈥?although most have no English name. I paid 110 yuan for a basic clean double with bath and air con. Look around a bit and you can probably get a room with more character / river view / terrace etc.

Restaurants:

There are plenty around although many (all?) are without an English menu. Prices are reasonable - 10 - 20 yuan a dish. There are dishes such as shredded potato, egg plant, dumplings, pig knuckle and spare ribs as well as fish, river prawns and river snails. Beer is around 10 yuan a bottle. There are a couple of empty bars playing hits from the 90s but we enjoyed a couple of beers from a restaurant on a bridge near the boat trip pier.

Other things:

On Sunday / middle of the day several coachloads arrive. After the day trippers leave, the town is quieter, although teenagers remain in the evening playing with sparklers on the boats. Boat trips on the river are 100 yuan for a boat of 12 people.

Mosquitoes 鈥?for a water town there didn鈥檛 seem to be many, although perhaps I was lucky!

Electricity for Old Town was cut off at 7 am in the morning! Then woken up by loud voices of old women complaining.

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The tops of the bridges are great places to sit to enjoy the breezes.

Overall a nice, friendly town making a change from its bigger neighbours. Definitely worth an overnight stay.

Xitang has no train station so if you take the train you%26#39;ll still have to change at (most probably) Jiashan to a public minibus/taxi.

Read my VirtualTourist Xitang Transportation travel page for a relatively complete answer to your question: members.virtualtourist.com/m/1d57/f2e9f/9/

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