Shanghai is one of the most convenient Chinese gateway cities for worldwide travelers to board their trains to Lhasa. With the establishment of Qinghai-Tibet railway in 2006, travellers could visit Tibet by train directely from Shanghai. The railway line covers 8 provinces from east to west China and has 4373 km in total. It normally takes about 48 hours.

The train Shanghai to Lhasa is Z164, which departs DAILY from Shanghai Railway Station at 20:10 and arrives Lhasa on Day3 at at 19:44. And the return train from Lhasa to Shanghai is called Z166, which departs DAILY from Lhasa at 11:05 and arrive in Shanghai on Day3 at 11:51.

What You Can Expect on Shanghai to Lhasa Train

It is an unforgetable experience to start the Tibet tour from Shanghai by train, En route, you will enjoy the great contrast of cultural shock and marvelous landscape, the snowcapped mountains, the turquoise plateau lakes, the grazing yaks and etc produce a marvelous landscape painting that shown like an animation film through your train window. Lying on your comfortable sleeper, you will never feel tired to watch this amazing scenery.

How to Get to Shanghai Train Station

The train from Shanghai to Lhasa starts from Shanghai Train station (上海站)

The subway Line 1, Line 3 and Line 4 can arrive to the Train Station.