A Detailed Travel Guide from Nanjing Lukou Airport to Hanyuan Hotel
Nanjing Lukou International Airport (南京禄⼜国际机场, IATA: NKG) has direct flight from Frankfort every Wednesday, as well as many domestic flights. NKG has two terminals (T1 and T2), and only T2 is currently used. Fig. 1 is a simplified map of T2.
Figure 1: Map of T2.
There are three options to go from NKG to Hanyuan hotel as listed below.
Option Via Cost Time 1 Metro + Taxi ¥6 + ¥25 35 + 20 minutes 2 Taxi ¥130 45 minutes 3 Airport Bus + Taxi ¥20 + ¥25 45 + 20 minutes
1 Metro + Taxi
This one is the recommended, which consists of two hops:
Hop From To By 1 NKG Nanjing South Railway Metro Line S1 Station(南京南站) 2 Nanjing South Railway Hanyuan Hotel (翰苑) Taxi Station (南京南站）
1.1 Details of Hop 1
S1 starts at 6:40 am and ends at 22:00 pm. The following figures show how to get to S1by following overhead directions.
Figure 2: Walk along the long hall, you will see a big sign above the door in front of you.
1 Figure 3: Keep walking you will see an escalator on your left.
Figure 4: Take the escalator downstairs, you will see the security check on your left and ticket machines on your right.
Figure 5: A Metro ticket machine. Figure 6: Change the language to English .
Figure 7: Press screen here. Figure 8: Press screen here.
2 Figure 9: ¥6 for 1 ticket. Figure 10: Only ¥5 bills, ¥10 bills and ¥1 coins are acceptable. You can always change large bills at the service spots inside Metro station.
Figure 11: The plastic blue coin is your Figure 12: Swipe the ticket over this area. ticket.
Figure 13: Take the escalator downstairs, Figure 14: Nanjing South Railway Station is and the train is on the right side. the last stop.
3 1.2 Details of Hop 2
The S1 journey takes around 35 minutes to reach NanJing South Railway Station, where you get off. Fig.15 is the map of NanJing South Railway Station. Follow the yellow line toget the Taxi stop.
Figure 15: Map of Nanjing South Railway Station.
The following figures show details along the way. When you get off the metro, you need to take an escalator to go one level up, andthengo the direction of Metro Line 1 and Line 3 (Fig. 16) and the Taxi stop is somewhere down the way.
Figure 16: The escalator you see when getting off Metro Line S1.
4 Figure 17: 3 doors along the way. Figure 18: Continue and go towards exit 2B.
Figure 19: Exit 2B.
Figure 20: Taxi sign at Exit 2B. Figure 21: Exit through the ticket gate.
Figure 22: Follow the direction to Taxi stop.
5 Figure 23: Turn right when you see these Figure 24: Turn left at the end of the hall. signs.
Figure 25: Follow the direction and go Figure 26: Go through this door. upstairs.
Figure 27: Taxi stop is a few step ahead.
6 If you print out the following note and show it to the Taxi driver, he will understand where you want to go.
司机师傅，请将我送往 “童卫路 20 号翰苑宾馆”，其位置如地图中红⾊ A 点所⽰。 酒店电话：02584393962。谢谢！
2 Option 2
If you take option 2, you can make a left turn when getting out the arrival gate (see Fig. 1) and walk towards Exit 3 (Fig. 28). The Texi spot is just outside Exit 3(Fig. 29).
Figure 28: Exit 3 for Taxi stop. Figure 29: Taxi stop at airport.
3 Option 3
Option 3 is not recommended, the reason is that you need to get off the air shuttle bus in a middle stop (the second stop), but the driver does not speak English. However, if you are determined to go by air shuttle bus, walk through Exit 2 (see Fig. 30) and turn left to find the air shuttle ticket office (see Fig. 31). Buy a ticket for Bus Line 2 (20 RMB) andboardat the scene shown in Fig. 32. You need to get off the air shuttle bus at Nanjing South Railway Station (the second stop) and then follow the directions towards the Taxi stop and show Taxi driver the following note, which tells where the Hanyuan hotel is.
司机师傅，请将我送往 “童卫路 20 号翰苑宾馆”，谢谢！
7 Figure 30: Exit 2. Figure 31: Ticket office of airport shuttles.
Figure 32: Wait at Bus Line 2.
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