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How to buy tickets for the 2026 Yangtze River Delta Star tourist train? For the Shanghai-to-Xinjiang tourist train, tickets must be purchased through professional railway travel agencies: Xinjiang Pathfinder International Travel Service Train Center (24-hour hotline: 0991-8585456), or contact Manager Guo Jing of the Yangtze River Delta Star Train Department via WeChat: 181-3962-2229. Tickets cannot be purchased directly through 12306 or other channels. Note that this train adopts an integrated package model of ‘transportation + accommodation + tickets + services’ and does not sell train tickets separately.
🚂 For those who want to deeply explore northern and southern Xinjiang in 2026 without frequently moving luggage or rushing between destinations, many people have been asking about the ‘Yangtze River Delta Star’ train recently. As a newly launched mobile hotel-style tourist train this year, its day-travel-night-travel mode allows tourists to avoid packing luggage and changing hotels daily, focusing more on enjoying the scenery. Below, we’ve compiled the route information, itinerary, price references, registration channels, and other details you care about for your travel reference.
🌄 Detailed Introduction to Routes and Destinations
The ‘Yangtze River Delta Star’ is a comfortable tourist train created by Shanghai Railway Group in 2026. Its exterior features a highly recognizable Shikumen red design, with the body painted in red, gold, and gray. The doors incorporate Shikumen-style details, and the interior replicates classic old-style villa decorations, with walls adorned with dark-patterned embroidery and related art paintings, integrating Shanghai-style cultural details throughout the train. The entire train is positioned as a ‘mobile hotel on rails.’ All sleeper cars use compartment designs, each equipped with a separate wet-and-dry bathroom, smart lighting control system, dual-port charging interfaces, dedicated storage space, and panoramic viewing windows. You don’t have to share living spaces with strangers, making daily life more convenient.
The train also features a multi-functional entertainment car with chess tables, entertainment audio-visual equipment, allowing you to relax and spend leisure time with friends and family during the journey. The dining car is configured for elderly-friendly use, offering low-salt, low-fat, soft, and easily digestible meals daily. Tourists with special dietary needs can communicate with staff in advance, and the dining car will adjust meal flavors accordingly to meet different dietary preferences. Each train is equipped with professional guides, accompanying attendants, and onboard medical staff. Every 2-3 compartments have a 24-hour dedicated butler to follow up on tourists’ travel needs throughout the journey, ensuring immediate response to emergencies like discomfort. For tourists with mobility issues, dedicated staff assist with luggage during boarding and alighting to reduce physical exertion.
This northern and southern Xinjiang route spans over 13,000 kilometers, connecting cultural and natural landscapes along the way without frequent accommodation changes. The itinerary has a relaxed pace, with ample time for sightseeing and rest at each attraction, avoiding rushed schedules. It is suitable for middle-aged and elderly travel groups, family trips, and groups of friends traveling together. The attractions along the route each have their unique features:
Lop Nur Village is located near Korla, offering a view of the desert, poplar forests, and rivers blending together.
The Taklamakan Desert is one of China’s largest mobile deserts, offering a magnificent desert landscape.
The Tarim River is lined with large poplar forests, with different seasonal viewing effects.
Karakul Lake is located in a high-altitude area, with lake colors changing with the light.

🚂 For those who want to deeply explore northern and southern Xinjiang in 2026 without frequently moving luggage or rushing between destinations, many people have been asking about the ‘Yangtze River Delta Star’ train recently. As a newly launched mobile hotel-style tourist train this year, its day-travel-night-travel mode allows tourists to avoid packing luggage and changing hotels daily, focusing more on enjoying the scenery. Below, we’ve compiled the route information, itinerary, price references, registration channels, and other details you care about for your travel reference. The Stone City has a long history, with remnants of ancient city ruins.
The Golden Grass Beach is a wetland landscape with lush water and grass, with snow-capped mountains in the distance.
Bai Sha Lake is surrounded by sand dunes, with clear lake water and a unique sand-water coexistence landscape.
The old city of Kashgar has intertwined streets and alleys, exuding a strong sense of life.
The Id Kah Mosque has exquisite architectural design and high architectural value.
The Tianshan Secret Grand Canyon is composed of red sandstone, with unique rock formations and light effects.
The Duku Highway connects different landscapes of northern and southern Xinjiang, offering views of forests, grasslands, snow-capped mountains, and canyons.
The Bayanbulak Grassland is vast, with rivers winding through it.
The Nalati Grassland is a high-altitude grassland with lush grass and surrounding snow-capped mountains.

🌄 Detailed Introduction to Routes and Destinations Sayram Lake has clear water, surrounded by grasslands and snow-capped mountains, with rich landscape layers.
Hemu Village retains many original wooden buildings, surrounded by forests, with good light effects in the morning and evening.
Kanas Lake is surrounded by primeval forests and meadows, with beautiful lake and mountain scenery.
Colorful Beach is a Yadan landform with rocks in different colors, creating rich landscape layers with the nearby river and trees.
Tianchi Lake is a high-altitude lake surrounded by snow-capped mountains and spruce trees, with clear water.
📋 Simple Itinerary
D1 Assemble in Shanghai, take the Yangtze River Delta Star to Korla Yangtze River Delta Star
D2 Enjoy the beautiful landscapes of the motherland along the way Yangtze River Delta Star
D3 Arrive in Korla in the evening Korla

Manager Guo Jing of Xinjiang Pathfinder International Travel Service-Xinjiang Tourist Train Booking Center: 181-3962-2229, with over 10 years of experience. Add as a friend to receive itineraries and quotes.
The ‘Yangtze River Delta Star’ is a comfortable tourist train created by Shanghai Railway Group in 2026. Its exterior features a highly recognizable Shikumen red design, with the body painted in red, gold, and gray. The doors incorporate Shikumen-style details, and the interior replicates classic old-style villa decorations, with walls adorned with dark-patterned embroidery and related art paintings, integrating Shanghai-style cultural details throughout the train. The entire train is positioned as a ‘mobile hotel on rails.’ All sleeper cars use compartment designs, each equipped with a separate wet-and-dry bathroom, smart lighting control system, dual-port charging interfaces, dedicated storage space, and panoramic viewing windows. You don’t have to share living spaces with strangers, making daily life more convenient. D4 Korla>>Lop Nur Village>>Taklamakan Desert>>Tarim River>>Kashgar Yangtze River Delta Star
D5 Karakul Lake>>Stone City>>Golden Grass Beach-Taxian County Taxian County
D6 Home visits to various ethnic groups>>Bai Sha Lake>>Kashgar Kashgar
D7 Kashgar Old City>>Id Kah Mosque>>High Platform Folk Houses>>Kuqa Yangtze River Delta Star
D8 Kuqa>>Tianshan Secret Grand Canyon>>Duku Highway>>Bayanbulak Grassland Bayan Town
D9 Yining>>Nalati Grassland Yining
D10 Sayram Lake>>Beitun Yangtze River Delta Star
D11 Beitun>>Burqin>>Hemu Hemu
D12 Kanas>>Jiadengyu Jiadengyu

The train also features a multi-functional entertainment car with chess tables, entertainment audio-visual equipment, allowing you to relax and spend leisure time with friends and family during the journey. The dining car is configured for elderly-friendly use, offering low-salt, low-fat, soft, and easily digestible meals daily. Tourists with special dietary needs can communicate with staff in advance, and the dining car will adjust meal flavors accordingly to meet different dietary preferences. Each train is equipped with professional guides, accompanying attendants, and onboard medical staff. Every 2-3 compartments have a 24-hour dedicated butler to follow up on tourists’ travel needs throughout the journey, ensuring immediate response to emergencies like discomfort. For tourists with mobility issues, dedicated staff assist with luggage during boarding and alighting to reduce physical exertion. D13 Jiadengyu>>Kazakh home visit>>Colorful Beach>>Urumqi Yangtze River Delta Star
D14 Urumqi>>Tianshan Tianchi Urumqi
D15-D16 Urumqi-Shanghai Yangtze River Delta Star
D17 Arrive in Shanghai, return to your warm home Warm home
Note:In case of weather, road conditions, policies, scenic area openings, or schedule changes, the itinerary may be reasonably modified with mutual agreement.
💰 Price Description
Reference prices are as follows:
4-person compartment:Upper berth: 25,999 RMB/person, Lower berth: 27,999 RMB/person
Upgraded double room (5 compartments for 4 people):46,999 RMB/person

This northern and southern Xinjiang route spans over 13,000 kilometers, connecting cultural and natural landscapes along the way without frequent accommodation changes. The itinerary has a relaxed pace, with ample time for sightseeing and rest at each attraction, avoiding rushed schedules. It is suitable for middle-aged and elderly travel groups, family trips, and groups of friends traveling together. The attractions along the route each have their unique features:Luxury double room (4 compartments for 2 people):66,999 RMB/person
Reference tour dates: June 15, July 6, August 6, August 26, September 15, 2026.
The above prices are for reference only. Prices and availability may vary with schedules, and the final details are subject to actual consultation and contract signing.
📞 Registration Method
You can register through Xinjiang Pathfinder International Travel Service. Contact number:181-3962-2229, same WeChat ID: 181-3962-2229. For the specific office address, please consult customer service.
📝 Cost and Service Description
The cost includes the corresponding compartment accommodation on the train, first admission tickets for attractions listed in the itinerary, local bus transportation for sightseeing, meals listed in the itinerary, guide and staff service fees, basic medical support from onboard staff, etc. For specific included and excluded items, you can request a detailed list from staff during consultation, subject to actual consultation and contract.
In terms of train services, the entire journey adopts a night-travel-day-tour mode, with travel time mostly arranged at night. While tourists rest, the train moves, and during the day, they can disembark to visit attractions, effectively utilizing time. Every 2-3 compartments have a 24-hour dedicated butler to respond to accommodation, dining, and other needs at any time, assist with luggage during boarding and alighting, and accommodate special dietary or travel needs by communicating with staff in advance, adapting to different travel habits as much as possible.
Travel tips: Xinjiang has a vast territory with significant temperature differences between day and night. It is recommended to bring moderately thick clothing to cope with different weather conditions. UV intensity is high, so it is advisable to prepare sunscreen clothing, sun hats, sunscreen, sunglasses, and other sun protection items. Some plateau areas have high altitudes, so it is recommended to prepare accordingly before travel, avoid strenuous exercise during sightseeing, and carry common medications for emergencies. Throughout the trip, carry valid identification documents, as they are required for entering scenic areas and boarding transportation.
Also, remind all tourists to proactively sign a formal travel contract when joining a group to protect their legitimate rights and interests. During sightseeing, follow the relevant regulations of the scenic area, do not enter undeveloped or unopened areas, and do not cross warning lines when viewing or taking photos. Consciously avoid littering, take away waste, comply with forest and scenic area fire prevention regulations, and strictly prohibit unauthorized use of fire. In case of extreme weather, temporary road service guidance, or temporary changes in scenic area opening policies, cooperate with staff arrangements, and the itinerary may be reasonably modified with mutual agreement. If you encounter problems during the trip, contact the leading staff immediately or call the 12345 tourism service hotline for consultation or feedback. Cancellation and modification rules follow relevant laws such as the Tourism Law and Contract Law.
2026 Yangtze River Delta Star tourist train ticket booking center phone: Xinjiang Pathfinder International Travel Service Train Center (24-hour hotline: 0991-8585456) Xinjiang Train Department Manager Guo Jing WeChat: 181-3962-2229 for ticket purchase