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Busy
Huang Shan airport
is around 10km west of town, with an
airport bus
(A?5) delivering to train and bus stations, and the
CAAC office
on Huang Shan Lu. The
train station
and booking office are at the northern city limits on the end of Qianyuan Bei Lu, which runs 250m south to Huang Shan Lu; Tunxi is on the Beijing-Xiamen-Shanghai lines. If there's nothing suitable waiting in the train-station square, Tunxi's
bus station
occupies an entire block a couple of hundred metres east off Guojing Gong Lu, with frequent minibuses for Shexian, Yixian, Tangkou, and Taiping, and regular long-distance departures to Jiuhua Shan, Wuhu, Hefei, Shanghai, Jingdezhen, Jiujiang, Nanchang and even Guangzhou. A couple of battered
city buses
run around Tunxi: from the train station, #6 takes a back road into town, while #1 and #2 follow Huang Shan Lu southwest from the bus station - either route is a twenty-minute walk.
Tunxi's
places to stay
are a bit dull and overpriced. Reasonable-value options include the small and unnervingly quiet
Yindu Dajiudian
across the square from the bus station (A?75-100); the upmarket
Jingwei Jiudian
(tel 0559/2525969, fax 2517178; A?300-500) on the roundabout south of the train station; and the modest
Tunxi Fandian
(tel 0559/2512585; A?75-100), in the centre near the Huang Shan Lu-Xin'an Lu intersection. Most
services
are around the Huang Shan Lu-Xin'an Lu intersection, too, where, along with markets, department stores and numerous small
restaurants
, you'll find a
Bank of China
(foreign exchange Mon-Fri 9-11.30am & 2.30-5pm), and the main
post office
. For local
information
, there's an English-speaking CTS 150m south of the train station at 12 Qianyuan Bei Lu (Mon-Fri 8.30am-noon & 1.30-5pm, with variable hours at the weekend; tel 0559/2115832, fax 2114040). See them about permits for Yixian; renting a private car from here will set you back A?500 per day. Other useful information
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