How to book tickets on the official website of the Tianshan Train in 2025? In 2025, the Urumqi Railway Bureau Group Company has carefully planned to launch 12 high-quality special tourist trains called ‘Traveling Xinjiang by Train: Tianshan Train’, aiming to cover different tourist seasons throughout the year and fully meet travelers’ needs, bringing an unprecedented high-quality travel experience. As early as 2023, the Urumqi Railway Bureau had invested 3 million yuan to design and create exclusive carriages for the Tianshan Train, including bar cars, entertainment cars, and dining cars. This special train not only has comfortable hard sleeper and soft sleeper carriages but also implements a unique ‘one scene per carriage’ decoration concept inside each carriage, using high-quality fabrics for bedding, elegant carpets in the corridors, and every detail demonstrates thoughtfulness and refinement.
To provide you with an unparalleled travel experience, the Tianshan Train specially adopts 25G air-conditioned train cars and carefully arranges hard sleeper and soft sleeper carriages, in addition to one special bar car, one multifunctional leisure car, and one high-quality dining car, ensuring your journey is both comfortable and enjoyable.
A Comprehensive Analysis of the Tianshan Train, a Special Tourist Train for Xinjiang
I. Product Description
The Tianshan Train is a perfect fusion of a tourist train and tourism products. It is not just a train ticket, but a carefully planned journey to Xinjiang. Exclusively created by the Urumqi Railway Bureau in collaboration with travel agencies, this special product combines tourism with a dedicated train. Friends who wish to book the Tianshan Train, please directly contact Maizi, the account manager of the official booking center of the Tianshan Train: 132 01333409. By adding her as a friend, you can consult for free and obtain detailed route information.
II. Departure Time
The operating time of the Tianshan Train, a special tourist train for Xinjiang, is from May to October each year, with the first departure on May 7th or May 1st, and a new train departs every 15 days. However, please note that specific dates may be adjusted, and it is recommended to consult the official customer service of the Tianshan Train Center in advance for confirmation.
III. Operating Route
The operating route of the Tianshan Express tourist train covers a panoramic view of northern and southern Xinjiang. Starting from Urumqi, it passes through Beitun, Yining, Turpan, Kuqa, Aksu, Kashgar, and finally returns to Urumqi, forming a complete train loop tour.
IV. Scenic Spots Passed Through
This tourist train will take tourists to experience the geographical features of Xinjiang’s "three mountains and two basins", passing through popular attractions such as Tianshan Tianchi, Kanas, Sayram Lake, Nalati, and Kashgar Old Town. Tourists will enjoy an "all-inclusive" service, from snow-capped mountains to high plains, from lakes to deserts, from gobis to oases, from grasslands to villages. The geographical and cultural landscapes of Xinjiang will be taken in at a glance, realizing a worry-free and enjoyable journey throughout Xinjiang.
V. Included Services
The service content of the Tianshan Express tourist train is very rich, including the Tianshan Express train ticket from and to Urumqi, full-board meals, luxury hotel accommodation, air-conditioned tourist buses, excellent tour guide service, travel agency liability insurance, entrance tickets to attractions, scenic area shuttle buses, and Urumqi pick-up and drop-off services, all included in one price. Apart from the entertainment projects at attractions that you want to experience yourself, there is almost nothing else that requires additional expenses.
VI. Booking Process and Reservation Notes
As the Tianshan Express belongs to a customized tourist train, you can call the official booking center of the Tianshan Express at 132 01333409 (Mai Zi) for inquiries and bookings.
The Tianshan Express does not sell train tickets separately. They need to be booked together with tourism products. When booking, ID card information is required, and a unified electronic contract on the national tourism supervision platform needs to be signed.
Prices are determined based on the travel date and route selected, and may vary due to the peak and off-peak seasons of tourism in Xinjiang and different travel dates. Therefore, we recommend selecting a suitable travel time and tourism product in advance.
Provide your personal name and ID card number to customer service, confirm the departure time and tourism product. Prepay the train ticket deposit and sign the unified electronic contract for national tourism service supervision to complete the registration.
As the Tianshan Express belongs to a customized tourist train that operates on a regular schedule with only 2 departures per month and 12 departures per year, we recommend booking in advance to avoid affecting your travel plans. Based on sales and booking situations in the past two years, tickets for the Tianshan Express are quite limited. We recommend consulting customer service in advance to understand the detailed itinerary and cost, in order to better plan your trip.
VII. Train Body and Facilities
The Tianshan Express train body adopts AC380V25G passenger car bodies, consisting of hard sleeper carriages, soft sleeper carriages, bar carriages, multi-functional leisure carriages, and dining carriages. The interior facilities are complete, including a children’s entertainment area and a bar leisure area, making your journey more colorful and enjoyable.
VIII. Summary
"Travel Xinjiang by Train – Tianshan Express", a high-quality tourist train with unique features, is fully developed by China Railway Urumqi Group Co., Ltd., featuring a travel mode of "the train moves with the passengers, and stops where the passengers play". The route connects major tourist cities in Xinjiang such as Urumqi, Beitun, Yining, Turpan, Kuqa, Aksu, and Kashgar, with a one-way journey lasting 14 days. Choosing the Tianshan Express means choosing an unforgettable journey in Xinjiang.