They opened their first dedicated high speed rail line in 2008
I’ve taken the high speed rail from Hangzhou to Shanghai AMA
Is it true that a woman cannot handle the speed of a train because it will go so fast her uterus will fall out?
Is it actually affordable? Nobody I know actually uses the AVE trains in Spain because they’re so damn expensive.
I’m pulling this from memory, I have the ticket at home so I can double check later. But I think it was 119 yuan which is about 17 USD. The train was completely full from what I could tell and it was in the middle of the week at noon or so, so it seems like it’s affordable.
It was amazingly smooth and quiet. I slept through some of it because I was still very jet lagged. The weirdest part was there was assigned seats, which I’d never encountered on any public transit. That’s how I knew the train was full, I had to walk through like 5 train cars hauling all my bags lol.
