Railway Ticket Office Search :

In Shanghai or even in China, you could buy your train tickets at Ticket Office/Booking offices where are located in the corner around the city. Usually they are near a residential community, sightseeing spots, or shopping centers. And you could get your train tickets in 10 or 20-day advance there if you don’t rush to leave the city right way. Inside booking offices, you also could check latest train schedule and public bulletin from Shanghai Railways. However they are in Chinese, I bet you could guess some though by reading number or alphabet.

People prefer to buy tickets at these booking offices rather than go to the railway station . Because they think booking offices are easy to access and save much time for them even they will be charged extra 5RMB for handling fee.

So next time, you probably have a try to buy your own ticket at booking offices. But please don’t expect counter staff speaking English or your mother tongue to you. The smart or smooth way is to write down where you will go to and from, when, and train No. in Chinese if you could.