Harbin is located in the hinterland of the Asia-Pacific Economic Development Zone with superior geographical location and convenient transportation. It is a transportation hub connecting Northeast Asia, Europe and the Pacific Ocean.
external traffic
aviation: Harbin Taiping International Airport is the second largest international airport in Northeast China, which can accommodate all kinds of domestic and foreign large passenger planes to take off and land day and night. There are flights to more than 3 large and medium-sized tourist cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Qingdao, Wenzhou, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shenyang, Dalian, Xi 'an and Hong Kong, and regular flights to some cities in the United States, Russia, South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia.
Railway: Harbin is the second largest railway hub in Northeast China after Shenyang, where five railways, namely, Jingha, Binsui, Binzhou, Binbei and Labin, are connected. There are two major passenger railway stations, Harbin Station and Harbin East Station. Harbin station is the main receiving and dispatching station of trains passing through Harbin; Harbin East Station is the starting point and terminal of most trains originating from Harbin. Harbin not only has passenger trains to major cities in the province, northeast China and eastern Inner Mongolia, but also has trains to other large and medium-sized tourist cities in the customs, such as Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hankou, Zhengzhou, Jinan, Yantai, Dezhou, Xuzhou and so on. Harbin and Qiqihar, Mudanjiang, Suihua and Jiamusi in the province have opened bullet high-speed trains.
Highway: National Highway 12 (Jingha Expressway), National Highway 22 (Heihe-Dalian), National Highway 221 (Harbin-Tongjiang) and National Highway 31 (Manzhouli-Suifenhe) radiate to all parts of the country. There are Harbin-Daqing and Qiqihar in the province; Harbin-Mudanjiang, Suifenhe; Harbin-Jiamusi and Hegang expressways. There are also dozens of long-distance bus lines leading to important towns in the province and neighboring cities outside the province.
water transport: Harbin port is one of the eight inland ports in China and the largest inland port in the northeast. There are two ports: passenger port (Beiqidao Street in Daowai District) and freight port (Sanshu in Taiping District). There are many routes from Harbin to Jiamusi, from Harbin to Beilaozhou, from Harbin to Zhaoyuan, and from Harbin to Qinghe, etc., which sail in mid-April and stop in early November every year.
Internal transportation
Bus: Harbin has built a relatively complete urban public transportation system, and now there are more than 1 public transportation lines in the urban area. These include bus lines, tram lines and combined transport lines, which basically form a public transportation network extending in all directions and convenient for travel. In order to facilitate the sightseeing needs of citizens and tourists, Harbin has successively opened the urban flood control memorial tower to Sun Island and the urban sightseeing bus route to and from the main scenic spots in the urban area, adding new colors to the opening of urban tourism.
Taxis: Taxis in Harbin are more expensive, with Xiali starting at 7 yuan (3 kilometers) and then 1.6 yuan per kilometer; Jetta starts at 8 yuan (3 kilometers), and then 1.9 yuan per kilometer; Chery starts at 7 yuan (3 kilometers), and then ferries to 1.9 yuan
per kilometer: Harbin also has three ferry lines connecting the urban area with Sun Island, which provides convenient and fast water transportation for Chinese and foreign tourists.
★ Sun Island: Located in the Songhua River in Harbin, it is directly accessible by boat from the riverside pier in Daoli District. Sun Island, surrounded by water, with trees and pleasant climate, is a famous summer resort. Sun Island has many banded beaches and abundant sunshine. It is a first-class natural bathing place. The center of Sun Island is a big garden, and "Shuige Yuntian" is a garden in the garden. Shuige Yuntian is a famous scenic spot of Sun Island. Villa-style buildings are scattered all over Sun Island, and most of them are rest homes or sanatoriums. After visiting Blissful Village and walking around the island, it's really interesting to watch this European-style building under the wind of the river.
Tickets: 3 yuan, 5 yuan, snow sculpture Art Fair
Traffic guide: Visitors can take trams No.11, No.12 and No.13, buses No.13 and No.79, and then transfer to cruise ships (with cableway to and from 2 yuan) to get to the scenic spots directly. The tourist shuttle bus can go directly to Sun Island along the Songhua River Highway Bridge on Youyi Road
★ Yabuli Ski Center: located in shangzhi city, eastern Heilongjiang Province, 193 kilometers away from Harbin and 12 kilometers away from Mudanjiang City. The highest peak is 1374.8 meters above sea level. The extreme minimum temperature here is -44℃, the average temperature is -1℃, the snow-covered period is 17 days, and the skiing period is nearly 15 days. The best skiing period here is from mid-November to late March of the following year. The whole ski resort is surrounded by mountains, with dense forests and thick snow and spectacular scenery. Sanguokui, the main peak of Guokui Mountain, has been turned into a large-scale tourist ski resort. Daguokukui and Erguokui were once the track of the third Asian Winter Games, and now they are the training bases for national skiers. Yabuli Ski Resort has perfect facilities, with 11 elementary, middle and advanced ski trails, and its alpine ski trails are the longest in Asia. There is also a 5-kilometer-long circular cross-country trail and snowmobile and sleigh lanes in the ski resort, with 3 hanging chair ropeways, 3 towing ropeways and 1 handle ropeway. The ski resort also has many modern ski resort machinery and equipment such as snow machines, snow presses and snowmobiles. There are a number of hanging chair and traction ropeways on the snow trail, so skiers can take the ropeway from any place and slide all over the snow trail without taking off their skis.
1 yuan is the ticket for skiing resort, and skiing expenses are extra
★ Harbin Ice Lantern Garden Party: founded in 1963, it is held in zhaolin park every winter. It is a world-famous ice and snow tourist resort, covering an area of 6.5 hectares, using about 2, cubic meters of ice and more than 1,5 ice works. It is the largest outdoor ice lantern art exhibition in the world and has become a local traditional project.
the ice lantern garden party is magnificent and charming. Artists in Harbin create with the original ice of Songhua River, and sculpt various ice sculptures, supplemented by modern scientific and technological means, which constitute the unique ice lantern art with northern characteristics.
the ice lantern garden party starts from January 5th and lasts until the end of February every year. Under the hands of artists and craftsmen, natural ice has become a beautiful work of art with vivid aura, a world of ice with strange lights, jade and silver inlaid, and an ocean of lights.
The art of ice lanterns changes every year, which is called "a fairy tale that never repeats". Since 1985, at the annual Harbin Ice and Snow Festival held during the ice lantern garden party, tourists can not only attend the ice lantern garden party and watch all kinds of ice sculpture art, but also participate in sports activities in the Songhua River ice world, such as sailing on ice, playing ice monkeys, skating, watching winter swimming competitions and ice weddings, and participating in the ice and snow festival literary evening.
Tickets: 1 yuan before 15: 3 in the daytime and 3 yuan after 15: 3
Traffic guide: Visitors can take tram No.11, No.13 and No.114 to the scenic spot directly.
★ St. Sophia Church: It is the largest Orthodox Church in the Far East. It was built in March 197 and is an embedded church built by the Fourth Infantry Division of Eastern Siberia, Russia. On September 27th, 1923, Suofeiya Church was relocated and rebuilt. It was designed by Russian architect Kiyasi Kov and completed in 1932. After the completion, Saint Sophia's church is deeply influenced by the Byzantine architectural style, which is magnificent, elegant and extraordinary, and magnificent. Its architectural plane is an east-west Latin cross. The wall is made of clear water red brick, with a height of 53.35 meters and a construction area of 721 square meters. Saint Sophia's Church is an important historical witness of Russia's invasion of Northeast China and an important treasure to study the modern history of Harbin. It was listed as a class of protected buildings by Harbin Municipal People's Government in 1986. In November 1996, Saint Sophia Church was listed as the fourth batch of key cultural relics protection units in China by the State Council. In June, 1997, Harbin Municipal People's Government decided to comprehensively renovate St. Sophia's Church.
Tickets: 2 yuan
Traffic guide: Visitors can take bus No.1, No.2, No.13, No.15, No.64, No.66, No.113 from Harbin, and get off at Harbin Yibai or Fashion Building to reach the church
★ Windmill Villa: located in the southeast of Yabuli National Forest Park in Heilongjiang Province, it is the main scenic spot and leisure resort center of Yabuli Ski Resort, which is far from the North Ice City. Windmill Villa was once famous as the athletes' village of the snow project in the 3rd Asian Winter Games. The main entertainment items in the villa include skiing, golf, fishing, tennis, snowmobiling, forest riding, hot air balloon and paragliding.
Traffic guide: Yabuli Railway Station has a CMB bus to Yabuli Ski Resort, which takes less than half an hour by car. The ticket is from 8 yuan to 1 yuan.
★ Ice and Snow World: the leading brand of Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival, which was born at the end of 1999 by the beautiful Songhua River, is held every year, bringing together the essence of the world's ice and snow art and integrating the world's ice and snow amusement in one park, which is ideological, artistic, ornamental, participatory and comprehensive.
Since it was held, the Ice and Snow World has been relocated several times, and finally it was located in the west area of Sun Island on the north bank of Songhua River in the third time in 21. The west area of Sun Island in Harbin covers an area of 2.82 million square meters, including the world of ice and snow. At present, a tourist resort with the Four Seasons Park in the Ice and Snow World as the leading factor is being built, and the international standard golf courses, water parks, sports and entertainment facilities and European landscape will be developed and built with the ecological and natural scenery as the main line.
Tickets: 8 yuan
Traffic guide: 1. Tourist shuttle bus: It starts from Youyi Road and passes through Youyi Road and Highway Bridge to the end of the world of ice and snow. Operating hours: 9: a.m.-22: p.m. 2. Direct bus: No.88 and No.118 tourist bus. 3. Transfer to bus: First take bus No.12, No.14, No.22, No.65 and No.67 to the Highway Bridge, then transfer to bus No.8, No.85 and No.346 passing through the Ice and Snow World, and get off at the Ice and Snow World.
★ Long Ta: The descendants of the Dragon went to Long Ta, and the Heilongjiang Radio and Television Tower, which was completed in the golden autumn of the Millennium Dragon Year, is located in Harbin High-tech Development Zone. The tower is 336 meters high. It is octagonal and parabolic, surrounded by seven silver-white aluminum alloy plates and nine dark blue coated glasses. The tower is located between 181m and 216m, and consists of a flying saucer-shaped lower tower and a spherical upper tower, with eight floors. The first steel tower in Asia, like a pearl embedded in the land of Longjiang, radiates dazzling brilliance. Long Ta is rich in internal resource allocation. Long Ta Science and Technology Park is known as "the first paradise in Longjiang" and is one of the practice bases of popular science education for young people in China. On the second floor, there is the "Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses Array Exhibition", which is magnificent. You can appreciate the style of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses without going to Xi 'an. The "Dragon Descendants Wax Museum" contains more than 4 wax figures of emperors such as Qin Shihuang, Genghis Khan, Wu Zetian, etc., which are exquisitely made and ingenious. The 181-meter-high sightseeing floor has the first celebrity hand museum in China, which collects more than 3 hand models of famous people from all walks of life, comparable to walk of fame; The "walking in the clouds" with a circumference of more than 6 meters is close to danger and romantic. The 186-meter flying saucer revolving restaurant covers an area of 1256 square meters, with comfortable and elegant environment and exquisite Chinese and western cuisine; The 19-meter-high outdoor sightseeing platform makes you feel relaxed and happy. 23, 26m Long Ta Clifford Hall displays the history of Jin going to Beijing and the Buddhist culture of China, which is fascinating.
Tickets: 5 yuan
Traffic guide: Bus No.7 can reach it
Compared with the south, Harbin's local native products are few in variety, but they are of high grade and unique.
Hericium erinaceus is a real "mountain treasure", which is good in quality and cheap; The king of freshwater fish, sturgeon, salmon and three-flowered fish (bream flower, oyster flower and auspicious flower) are real human delicacies, the best in the river, fresh and delicious, with unique flavor; Air-dried sausage, though difficult to be honored at a state banquet, is a good accompaniment of folk wine and a delicacy of a feast. Although red beans and wild vegetables in the north are not worth mentioning, the former has the beautiful meaning of "acacia beans", while the latter is the real game in the north.
The famous and special products of Heilongjiang are also gathered in Harbin by coincidence, and the most famous one is the ginseng named Changbai Mountain Wild Ginseng, which is the first of the three treasures in Northeast China. Secondly, mink, the best treasure in fur; Pilose antler is a valuable tonic, tiger bone and bear gall are valuable Chinese herbal medicines, and agate crafts are vivid and crystal clear.
Salmon, the scientific name of which is salmon, was called Dafaha fish in ancient times, and its weight can reach more than 13 kg. The meat is reddish, thick and less prickly, and it is extremely rich in nutrition. Fresh food can be made into fish fillets, fish segments, fish balls, braised fish pieces, etc., and can also be salted and smoked, which has a unique flavor.
Dazhong sausage, a kind of meat product which is favored among non-staple foods in Harbin, has a history of one hundred years. Harbin meat processing plant is famous for producing this kind of sausage. The sausage produced by them is jujube red in surface, shiny and wrinkled, dry and elastic, with fine stuffing structure, smooth cut surface, fragrant smoke, rich nutrition and easy preservation. It was rated as a national quality product.
Hericium erinaceus, a fungus vegetable, has the reputation of "vegetarian meat" and "vegetable meat". Hericium erinaceus is white when fresh, and light brown when dry. The big one is bigger than a bowl, and the small one is as thick as a thumb. It grows on rotten wood and standing wood of broad-leaved trees such as oak (Quercus mongolica) and Juglans mandshurica, and can also grow on the injured part of living standing wood. Every year, after the rain in early autumn, the Hericium erinaceus begins to grow, often growing in pairs near each other. Autumn is its peak season. Hericium erinaceus is a treasure in the mountains, and it is also known as the four famous dishes of delicacies, such as bear's paw, sea cucumber and shark's fin.
Three-flowered fish is a famous freshwater fish in Heilongjiang Province, namely, bream flower, claw flower and crucian carp flower. Aohua, the scientific name of mandarin fish, also known as osmanthus fish, is one of the four largest freshwater fish in China, with its tender meat, delicious taste and less thorns, and its weight can reach 1 Jin. Medullaria, scientific name Changchun Medullaria. This fish has a long reputation since ancient times. This kind of fish is tender and rich in fat, accounting for about 8% of the body weight. Carassius auratus flower (also called "auspicious flower", meaning auspicious) is also called Carassius auratus flower hook. This fish is cooked in soup or steamed, which is a good medicine for lactation of women with insufficient milk.
Eating bear's paw, tasting flying dragons, tasting "three flowers", licking the head of a monkey, savoring delicacies and delicacies all over the place are the best evaluations for everyone who travels in Harbin to enjoy themselves. In addition, authentic Russian dinners must not be missed!
Harbin's specialties are: Beiqi Fenggu, rock sugar chinese forest frog, stewed live fish in Demolis, Radix Dipsaci, Northeast Lapi, Northeast Stewed Vegetable, Russian-style Chinese Cuisine, Feilong Soup, Sauced Bone, Mother and Child Monkey Mushroom, Clear Soup Deer Tail, Sauerkraut Sauerkraut, Fish with Chinese sauerkraut, Stewed Mushroom with Chicken, Stewed Swallow with Hydrangea, Smoked Salmon with Spiced Spices, and Stewed Pork Powder. Special snacks include: big bread, Beijing-style pine nut tripe, Lao Dingfeng cake and crisp heli.
Beiqi Fenggu: Cooked with crispy chicken bones, minced chicken and Beiqi juice, it is deeply appreciated by gourmets for its unique flavor and detoxication.
rock sugar chinese forest frog: this dish is based on frog oil. Blanch the frog oil with hot water, stew it with rock sugar, and add cherry stew and diced green plum. The finished product is bright, sweet and clear in color.