Air China Launch Direct Chengdu-Tokyo Flights

Good news for Chengdu City. Air China, is launching twice-weekly nonstop service from Chengdu to Tokyo on September 22 2010. Air China Is The First Airline To Launch A Direct Route To Japan From Southwest China.

Flights CA423/4 will depart Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport at 08:00 and arrive in Tokyo at 13:40 local time, every Wednesday and Saturday. Return flights will depart Tokyo Narita Airport at 14:50 local time and arrive in Chengdu at 19:20.

Previously, Air China had opened three routes linking Chengdu with Japan, which include seven flights per week on the Chengdu-Beijing-Tokyo route, seven flights on the Chengdu-Shanghai-Nagoya route, and three flights per week from Chengdu to Osaka via Dalian.

Japan relaxed its visa requirements for Chinese tourists in July, and the number of Chinese tourists to Japan continues to increase. In 2009, Sichuan received 166,910 Japanese tourists; the number during the period from January to May 2010 was 47,601, an increase of 33.83% over the same period last year. The launch of this direct route will help improve the Japanese tourism market, the development of Sichuan's tourism industry, and even the economic and cultural exchange of the entire Southwestern region.

About Air China

Air China is China's only national flag carrier and a Star Alliance member. Using a fleet of 256 Airbus and Boeing aircraft, Air China's 250 routes serve 32 countries and regions. Thanks to the airline's admission to the Star Alliance, Air China's route network, with Beijing as its hub, is able to place 912 destinations in 159 countries within its reach. Air China now has 10 million members in its frequent flyers program.

For more information, please visit Air China website http://www.airchina.com.cn , or call Air China service hotline 4008-100-999.

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Chengdu budget accomodations hostel and inn

Over the endure few years the amount of bargain hostels in Chengdu has absolutely exploded. Now there are abounding to accept from, but those listed actuality are the mainstays of sleeping in Chengdu for cheap. These places are all apple-pie and run by nice humans so don't anticipate that for paying beneath than $10 youв'll be blockage in a rat trap. Most will alpha about 20 yuan for a applesauce and ambit up to a few hundred for a apple-pie but spartan clandestine room.

If you are backpacking and casual through Chengdu, the hostels beneath are the aboriginal ones to analysis out. They are all cheap, clean, and reliable options which are affiliated with all-embracing auberge networks like Hostelling International. You can apprehend apple-pie sheets, affable staff, lockers to abundance valuables, and a accepted breadth frequented by added travelers. These affectionate of places are abundant if youв're absorbed in assortment with added travelers and they occasionally affection appropriate contest on holidays and weekends. For added advice on these locations analysis out their websites which are affiliated below.

1. Mix Hostel



telephone: +86 028 83222271
address: Ren Jia Wan, Xing Hui Xi Lu #23, China
website: mixhostel.com

With its aberrant atmosphere, Mix is consistently abounding of backpackers exchanging belief and is a abundant abode to angle up with others. There are lots of baby common areas for chatting, arena games, a tv allowance with a dvd amateur and the latest films, chargeless internet and a book exchange.

The agents were actual accessible with booking trips and treks and flights and with analytic all sorts of biking problems and queries.

The showers are communal, so be able for continued waits and/or absence of hot water. Also the aliment actuality is a bit cher for what you get, so accumulate that in apperception appear breakfast time. Mix offers chargeless aces up from the alternation base if you align this with them in advance.

price: 25 yuan for a bunk, up to 90 yuan for an air-con double room


2. Sim's Cozy Garden Hostel



telephone: +86 028 81979337
address in English: First Ring Rd Section 4, #211 North Section
address in Chinese: 老沈青年旅舍 一环路北四段211号
website: gogosc.com

Sim’s Cozy Garden Hostel (known by locals as Sim’s) is admirable temple-like auberge on the arctic ancillary of town, abreast the Buddhist Wunshu Monastery.

The architecture was already the home of the German Consular-General in Chengdu and somehow able the accident brawl that tore down a lot of of Chengdu's old celebrated sites.

Recommended in Lonely Planet and Frommer's, Sim and Maki accept congenital a “home abroad from home's for adolescent backpackers with different appearance like a all-embracing garden. In accession to chargeless Wi-fi internet admission and a bump DVD with bags of DVDs to watch, there are Japanese and Chinese chefs on website who action affable acquaint to guests. Sim and Maki accept attributed their accomplishment at architecture and advancement the absolute auberge in Chengdu to their decades of traveling about the apple on their own and added recently, calm as bedmate and wife.

From the capital alley in foreground of Sim's Cozy Garden Hostel, there are buses traveling anon to the Panda Breeding Center, Chengdu Railway Station, Chengdu Day-tripper Transport Center (XinNanMen Bus Terminal) and abounding added day-tripper sites in Chengdu.

price: From 20 yuan for a shared room with bunk beds to 240 yuan for a “Family Room” with extra large bed



3. The Loft



telephone: +86 028 86265770
address in English: 4 Xiao Tong Xiang (Xiao Tong Alley), Zhong Tong Ren Lu, Chengdu
address in Chinese: 中同仁路, 小通巷四号
website: lofthostel.com

The Loft is congenital in what acclimated to be a press factory, which lends it its avant-garde and automated feel. The architecture is alpine and expansive, with abounding works by adolescent bounded artists on affectation on the walls arch up to the bedfellow rooms. Compared to added hostels you acquisition in China, this abode is actively chichi and stylish. But, with all it's apple-pie and basal beheld touches, it charcoal a affable and adequate abode to blast in Chengdu for cheap. If you're visiting in the winter, they accumulate the boiler on consistently so it break balmy central which is a nice benefit for blockage balmy in the blah Chengdu winter.

The Loft is run by Smart Travel Solutions, who accept over 10 years acquaintance allowance backpackers adore their time in Southwest China. If you wish to appointment some of the added arresting sites in and about Chengdu and Sichuan, the Loft offers tours and books trips to bounded architect like Qingcheng

Mountain and Le Shan a part of others. Like the added hostels, Mix offers chargeless analeptic from the alternation station, chargeless Wi-fi internet access, and bike rental.

price: 40 yuan for a bunk in a shared room or 180 yuan for a large private room


Watch Sofitel Wanda Chengdu in Chengdu



This city hotel is located on the Funan River, a 15-minute walk from Central Square and the commercial hub of the city. Tian Fu Square can be reached in 6 minutes on foot. The Jin Juang River runs through the city. Chongqing is a 2-hour drive away and the hotel is just a 20-minute drive from Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport.

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Chengdu best disco nightclub bars ktv clubs nightlife

Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan Province, located in southwest People's Republic of China. Chengdu is an old city with a history of over 2,000 years. In contrast to most of China's other urban landscape, and despite the fast redevelopment, Chengdu has seccessfully preserved the atmosphere how one might imagine China have once been sometime in the past.

Chengdu nighlife tourist attractions and places to go at night :

1. Face Change in Sichuan Opera - Music Drama
2. Qingyang Palace Chuan Opera & Snack - Shufengyayun Sichuan Opera & Snack & Tea
3. Shufengyayun Sichuan Opera & Snack & Tea - Shufengyayun Sichuan Opera & Tea
4. Shunxin Old Teahouse Sichuan Opera & Tea - Shunxin Old Teahouse Snack & Sichuan Opera & Tea
5. Wuhou Temple Stage & Tea - Wuhou Temple Stage & Tea
6. Zanng&Qiang minority show

Chengdu best bars, KTV, disco, club house :
1. Allen Tale Club - Crane Sing Tea House
2. Fisherman Port City - Juxian House
3. Mei Gao Mei International Club - Nantianyue Hotel Tea House
4. Old Chengdu Tea House - Red Age Bar
5. Seven Bowls Tea House - Taxi Tea House
6. Tongjin Tea House - Xinlei Club

Chengdu best nightclubs in town are listed :
1. Versailles Palace
Address: 11 4 Segment S. Renmin Rd., Chengdu
Tel: 028-5220419
Luxurious decor of classical European manner, the great collection of songs from all over the world is also very attractive to customers.

2. 21 Club
Address: 34 Xinhong Rd., Chengdu
Tel: 028-4335519
The club has stimulating music, disco, restaurant, teahouse and sauna center. Open till 6 a.m.

3. One-way Road Club
Address: 2nd Segment Mid Renmin Rd., Qinggong Mansion, Chengdu
Tel: 028-7650545
It's a large club, can accommodate more than 200 people, concerts of European rock, gifts and lucky draw for gusts every night.

4. Honeycomb Club
Address: Minzu (Nation) Restaurant, Yang Xi Xian, Chengdu
Tel: 028-7764485
This club had a high reputation for its Japanese-style bar and European-style boxes. Celebrated bands and appreciated for its perfect sound effects.

5. Y2K Club
Address: 85 Daci Si Rd., Chengdu
Tel: 028-6675108
This is one of the few clubs that offers performances in Thai style in the city. The quiet and romantic café here is another great attraction to tourists.

6. Moon River Nightclub
Address: 65 N. 1st Segment, 1st Ring Rd., Chengdu
Tel: 028-7674366
Set with advanced facilities and impressive illuminations, an ideal place for parties and get-togethers. Fresh fruits and a birthday cake is offered free of charge if arranged for a birthday party.

Chengdu Photos :






Watch Chengdu Bar and Nightclub Video at 88 Bar here

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