As an important harbor and industrial base in Shandong Province, Qingdao is well connected to other cities in China and destinations around the world.

Outer transportation:

Qingdao is easily accessible by air from almost all the major cities in China. The city is also connected with some international destinations, mostly in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hongkong and Macau. The Liuting Airport is 32 km far to the north of the city proper and minibuses are available from the airport, transferring visitors to the city center within 30 minutes. Most large hotels have airline ticket offices, as well as transport to and from the airport. Domestic Airport Tax is RMB 15 and RMB 90 for international.

Otherwise, if you decide to take a taxi at the airport, you'd better choose the taxi with a silver roof, because the one with a yellow roof is not allowed to enter the city center. The railway station is on the Tai'an road near Zhanqiao. Everyday, trains go to more than 15 major cities of China including Beijing, Shanghai, Ji'nan, Taishan, Hezhe, Weihai, Wuchang, Nanchang, Xuzhou, Zhengzhou, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Chengdu, Taiyuan, Dandong, Tonghua.

There are 7 expressways linking Qingdao to many major cities. They are Jiqing, Jiaozhouwan, Xiliu, Shuangliu, Weilai, Xilai and Qingyin.
Minibuses go to Weihai(4 hours RMB40), Yantai(3 hours RMB30), and Yiweike(4 hours RMB40) from the Qingdao railway station square. To Ji'nan, you can take a bus in the bus station of Qingdao (4.5hours RMB79) on Wenzhou road.West bus station is on Guantao road and East bus station on Ha'erbing road.

Qingdao has 2 international ship lines. Ships go to Korea on every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, and Japan every Tuesday and Friday. The transportation station is at the Xinjiang road.

Getting around:

You can hardly see bicycle or motorbike in Qingdao City because of the special topography. Buses are the most convenient Transport tool, RMB1 or RMB2 for the ticket price. The NO.26 NO.201 and NO.202 bus start from the railway station going along the seashore passing Zhanqiao Badaguan scenic spots.

To Laoshan ( Taiqing sceneic area), you can first take the NO.304 bus to the railway station and then hop on a bus to Laoshan. Of course you can take the one-day trip service of Laoshan. If you want to travel Beijiushui and Yankou scenic area, you can take the travel buses at 7:00-10:00 AM every morning at the Huaneng square.

For taxi,the starting price is RMB7 for 4km and RMB1.2/km, from 22:00 -5:00 RMB1.5/km. There are a lot of one-way roads in Qingdao. Usually we can see a four-land road in the left side of a road and only buses run in the righ side. This is in order to raise the bus running speed and to lessen the transportation pressure.If you know something about that, the unhappy things will less to happen.

The ferry-boat line between Qingdao and Huangdao increasing the connection of the both banks of Jiaozhouwan. The whole journey only takes 20minutes or half an hour. No boats in misty day.
Common boat: 6:30-21:00 RMB6, one boat for every half an hour.
High-speed boat: 7:00-18:00 RMB8, one boat for every 20 minutes.
Qingdao to Xuejia island (Anzi wharf)
High-speed boat: 7:00-18:10, one boat for every half an hour.

The travel wharf of Laiyang Road is located in the north of naval museum. Here the boats run through Little Qingdao Luxun Park and Taiping angle.The travel wharf of Zhongyuan is situated in the Xiling Road. You can take a boat not only to visit the whole littoral scenery of Qingdao but also two islands of Huanghai-- Zhucha Island and Dagong Island.