Railway

Haikou Railway Station is 20 kilometers (12 miles) away from the center of Haikou City, and there are direct trains from Shanghai and Guangzhou as well as Beijing. The train K511 runs from Shanghai to Haikou directly; and T201 and T202 run from Beijing to Haikou and then to Sanya directly; The train from Haikou to Guangzhou starts at 18: 58 and arrives in Guangzhou Railway Station at 6: 52 in the following day; and the trains Line K408 from Guangzhou to Haikou starts at 22:26 and arrives in Guangzhou Railway Station at 10:26 in the following day, stopping at Haikou, Xuwen, Zhanjiang, Lianjiang, Maoming, Zhaoqing, Sanshui, Foshan and Guangzhou railway stations, which takes 12 hours for the whole way. There is Qiongzhou Strait between the mainland and Haikou City, so the train will be carried one carriage by one carriage by the ferry across the sea, and the visitors will stay on the ferry for one hour.