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Orientation and arrival
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Nanchang sprawls away from the east bank of the
Gan Jiang
into industrial complexes and wasteland, but the centre is a fairly compact couple of square kilometres between the river and
Bayi Dadao
, which runs north through the heart of the city from the huge
Fushan roundabout
and past
Renmin Square
, becoming
Yangming Lu
as it turns east over the Bayi Bridge.
Xiangtan airport
is 28km south, and you'll need to take a taxi into town (A?100), but other transit points are more central. Nanchang's new
train station
is 700m east of the Fushan roundabout at the end of Zhanqian Lu; some buses from Lu Shan, Jinggang Shan and farther afield terminate here, but the main
long-distance bus station
, with user-friendly timetables and helpful staff, is 1km away on Bayi Dadao. The
ferry port
lies just south of the Bayi Bridge, handling daily services to towns around Poyang Hu and less frequent traffic south along the Gan Jiang.
Taxis
(expensive at A?10 standing charge) and motor-rickshaws cruise downtown arrival points, while
city bus
#2 runs from the train station along Bayi Dadao, and then makes a circuit of the central area, either passing or coming close to all the hotels. Other useful information
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