Lhasa Railway Station is the terminal station of Qinghai-Tibet Railway starts from Xining in Qinghai Province. It is 1788 kilometers away from Xining Railway Station. It has been the first landing place for a large number of tourists made a Tibet tour.
Lhasa Railway Station is quite noted as the largest station along Qinghai-Tibet Highway with a total construction area of 23600 square meters. Located on the southern bank of Lhasa River, Lhasa Railway Station enjoys an altitude of 3641 meters. The main construction of Lhasa Railway Station is a 2-story italic building built against the mountain.
The construction of Lhasa Railway Station integrated the typical Tibetan architectural style and the modern construction style together. Tourists making a Tibet train tour would find that you are almost in a traditional Tibetan style palace if you take a careful look of the central hall of Lhasa Railway Station on the ground floor. At the same time, the electric display screen and the escalator here would be the symbols of the modern style. The designer of Lhasa Railway Station adopted red as the dominant hue of the central hall. The ground is paved with white and red anti-skidding floorboards. The 8 giant pillars are typical symbols of the traditional Tibetan architectural style.
Just as the other ordinary railway stations, Lhasa Railway Station is equipped with the basic waiting room and ticket booking hall. There are four waiting rooms in Lhasa Railway Station, among which there is a soft seat waiting room equipped with escalator. The health-care center and logistics services zones are located on both sides of the main station building. There are also special infant & mom waiting room and VIP waiting room on the second floor. Besides, the fast-food restaurant, café and stores are also available in Lhasa Railway Station.
To relieve tourists' anoxia and fatigue caused by the high altitude in Lhasa, Lhasa Railway Station settled the escalator to shorten the journey in the station. Tourists making a Tibet train tour could search some useful information on the electric display screen, including the timetable of the arriving and leaving trains, and the price of the train tickets. At the same time, Lhasa Railway Station adopted the rich and pollution-free solar energy on Tibet Plateau as its heating fuel so as to better protect the surrounding natural environment.
Lhasa Railway Station was completed in June 2006 and was put into operation on July 1st, 2006. The direct train between Lhasa and Golmud opened first. Later, the direct trains between Lhasa and Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Chengdu and Chongqing are opened continuously. Currently, make choice among the Tibet train tours through Qinghai-Tibet Railway has been the preference for a large quantity of tourists from different corners of the world. Lhasa Railway Station is always crowded with tourists between April and October. It is pretty difficult to get a train ticket in between July and August for this period is the peak season of Tibet tour and the demand of train tickets would always be greatly exceed the supply.