Yúlín Getting there & around

Getting there & away

There are daily flights to Xī’ān (Y590) from the airport, 10km east of town.

Yúlín has two bus stations. If you get off the bus inside the town walls (near the south gate), you are at the main bus station (; qìchē zhàn); the regional bus station (; kèyùn zhàn) is located a little further northwest.

The main bus station has sleepers to Xī’ān (Y130, 10 hours) at 5pm, 5.30pm and 6pm. You can also get frequent buses to Yán’ān (Y51, five hours), and morning buses to Tàiyuán (Y89, eight hours) and Yínchuān (Y94, five hours).

The regional bus station has half-hourly buses to Dàliǔtǎ (Y7, 1½ hours), from where you can travel by bus or train to Dōngshèng and Bāotóu in Inner Mongolia. Note that the buses to Dōngshèng pass by Genghis Khan’s Mausoleum. There are also nonluxury buses going to Xī’ān (Y103, 10 hours) throughout the day.

The train station is 1km west of town. There are three trains to Xī’ān (Y109 to Y144, 12 to 14 hours) via Yán’ān departing at 7.25am, 4.20pm and 6.04pm, but don’t count on being able to get sleeper tickets.

Taxis around town and to the train station are Y5.