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Taiyuan, China · Asia-Pacific
Shanxi's regional hub is a fast two-hall domestic machine with live Metro Line 1 since February 2025 — the tradeoff is a T1/T2 airline split, a snack-grade Gate 203 Priority Pass pin, a single live runway while the old strip is rebuilt, and a 35-minute cutoff you should not copy onto a Hong Kong sector.
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Taiyuan, China · Asia-Pacific
Shanxi's regional hub is a fast two-hall domestic machine with live Metro Line 1 since February 2025 — the tradeoff is a T1/T2 airline split, a snack-grade Gate 203 Priority Pass pin, a single live runway while the old strip is rebuilt, and a 35-minute cutoff you should not copy onto a Hong Kong sector.
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本地宝 leftover 2 Sep 2026: domestic check-in opens 90 minutes before STD and dies at 35. International leftover opens 120 and dies at 40. Boarding leftover opens 40 minutes before STD and closes 15 minutes before.
China Southern leftover on the T2 page also prints a 35-minute domestic cutoff. Do not copy that 35-minute clock onto Hong Kong / Macau / Bangkok / Kuala Lumpur. International and HMT are T2 C, not T1.
T1 leftover 2 Sep 2026 is Hainan-group counters 1–6 plus Air China / Shenzhen / Tibet / Shandong / Kunming counters 13–22. T2 A is China Eastern / Shanghai / China United. T2 B is China Southern and the rest. T2 C is every international and HMT flight.
T1 and T2 sit at 45 degrees with two landside corridors. T3 is not live. There is no sterile international-to-domestic MCT product — 本地宝 leftover says international transfer is 暂未开放.
DragonPass leftover names 李先生牛肉面大王 as the only restaurant product: landside T2 安检大厅 door 3 on the right, and an airside pin next to Gate 205, 06:00–22:00.
Priority Pass tyn2 leftover at Gate 203 is a cold buffet with extra payment. The T2 international First Class Lounge leftover is soft drinks on a 17:45–23:55 window. Buy the bowl before you sit.
Shanxi government leftover 25–26 Dec 2025: new south runway 13R/31L opened at 07:00, original 13L/31R closed the same night for about two years of rehab. Dual-runway operations leftover 2027.
T3 leftover passed a steel-structure review around 14–15 Sep 2026 and is still in interior fit-out and transfer-consulting tenders. Wikipedia photos of T3 dated July 2026 are a construction site, not a check-in hall.
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Taiyuan Wusu International Airport and the Taiyuan city center
4 ways into the city, compared on time, cost, and luggage.
5 lounges with access rules, hours, and verdicts. 2 rated worth it.
Default cheap path is Metro Line 1. Exit A leftover faces T2 arrivals door 3. Exit B leftover is under the airport expressway toward the Shanxi Aviation Industry Group building. Do not write a no-metro field, and do not wait for a 武宿3号航站楼站 that is still a Line 1 phase-2 approval, not a passenger stop.
6 rated amenities — food, Wi-Fi, quiet spots, family, and sleep.
Where to refill for free, and where a bottle costs the least airside.
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Taiyuan Wusu International Airport and the Taiyuan city center
Compare prepaid private transfers to Taiyuan — useful overnight, with luggage, or when you want a locked-in fare before you land.
Live since 22 Feb 2025. Exit A leftover faces T2 arrivals door 3. No airport surcharge.
Tip: Airport leftover 06:00–22:51 toward 河龙湾. 五一广场 leftover last toward the airport 22:21. Hotline 0351-96369.
T1/T2 1F arrivals. Sit the meter. Posted reference leftover June 2025 at this curb.
Tip: Night leftover 21:00–05:00 is 8.6 / 1.8. 榆次 cross-city fee leftover is forbidden. Hotline 0351-96566.
T2 1F door 3. From 16 Jun 2025 loops 太原南站 / 五一广场 / Taiyuan Station. Still useful when the metro is closed.
Tip: First leftover 09:00, hourly until 22:00, then about 30 minutes until the last flight. Desk leftover 0351-7286934.
About 1,398 bays leftover by T1/T2. Mid-size leftover 2×, large leftover 3×. T3 garage is not live.
Tip: Older 2024 leftover ¥5/hour cap ¥70 is leftover-stale. Do not promise a free first half-hour on the June 2025 card.
T1 airside, 2F, leftover opposite Gate 105 / DragonPass leftover left about 100 m after security near gates 104–105. PP leftover 3-hour stay, children under 2 free, play area, massage chairs, extra payment. The T1 nursing room leftover is also opposite Gate 105. Eat before you sit if the extra-payment card is a snack room.
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Add a photoT1 airside, 2F, leftover near Gate 101 / DragonPass leftover turn right after security. PP leftover unlimited stay, one child under 12 free, alcohol. This is the Hainan-metal room, not a T2 product. Skip it on China Eastern — those flights check in at T2 A.
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Add a photoT2 airside, 2F, leftover near the Fast Track / 15 m left of the business-class security door. PP leftover MU / FM / KN / SkyTeam domestic only, 2-hour stay, no boarding calls. DragonPass leftover is even tighter — actual MU / FM metal only. This is the meal-and-drink room on those tickets. Skip it on Hainan / Air China / Shenzhen metal; those halls are T1.
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Add a photoAirside T2, 2F, leftover opposite Gate 203 / DragonPass leftover left of the security bank. PP leftover 4.0/69, 3-hour stay, children under 2 free, cold buffet, extra payment. This is the unrestricted PP pin on T2 domestic — not the China Eastern room. Confirm a hot meal at the desk; eat 李先生 if they only have snacks.
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Add a photoT2 international airside, 2F, leftover next to duty-free / DragonPass leftover near Gate 18. PP leftover is a 17:45–23:55 window with soft drinks and a 3-hour stay — useless for a morning sector. International traffic is under 0.3% of the field. Confirm the desk is actually open before you clear, and do not treat this as an all-day TWOV room.
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Add a photo武宿1号2号航站楼站 opened 22 Feb 2025. Exit A faces T2 arrivals door 3. Fare 2 yuan / 5 km, no airport surcharge. Last airport trains leftover 22:51.
T2 airside near Fast Track. Hot drinks and alcohol on MU / FM / KN / SkyTeam domestic metal. Priority Pass tyn5. Skip it on Hainan / Air China tickets — those halls are T1.
Named T2 kitchen leftover 06:00–22:00 on the DragonPass restaurant card, Gate 205 / landside door 3. Eat here instead of the Gate 203 cold-buffet CIP.
T1 airside near Gate 101. Priority Pass tyn4 leftover unlimited stay and complimentary alcohol on Hainan-group metal. Not a T2 product.
T1 leftover opposite Gate 105. T2 leftover opposite domestic security lane 1. Special-passenger wait leftover T2 Gate 203.
Small-car leftover June 2025: ¥2.5 / 30 min, cap ¥50 / 24 h. About 1,398 bays by T1/T2. T3's planned garage is not live.
International and HMT check in at T2 C. T1 is Hainan-group plus Air China / Shenzhen / Shandong / Kunming / Tibet.
本地宝 leftover 2 Sep 2026: T1 counters 1–6 Hainan cluster, 13–22 Air China cluster. T2 A China Eastern, T2 B China Southern and the rest, T2 C every international and HMT flight. The 2014 Wikipedia airline split is leftover-stale.
Landside corridors connect T1 and T2 if you walked into the wrong door.
There is no sterile international-to-domestic MCT. 本地宝 leftover: 国际中转业务暂未开放.
Metro Line 1 opened 22 Feb 2025. Exit A leftover faces T2 door 3. Airport bus leftover is ¥10, not Wikipedia's ¥16.
Airport trains leftover 06:00–22:51 toward 河龙湾. Fare leftover 2 yuan / 5 km, no cap. 太原南站 leftover three stops. 五一广场 leftover mid-line. Bus leftover from 16 Jun 2025 loops south station / 五一广场 / Taiyuan Station from T2 door 3.
No airport surcharge on the metro.
Last trains leftover around 22:51. T3 metro is not live.
China Eastern tyn5 is the drink room on MU / FM / KN. Gate 203 tyn2 is a cold buffet with extra payment.
HNA Club tyn4 leftover Gate 101 is the T1 alcohol room with unlimited stay. T2 international tyn1 leftover only 17:45–23:55 with soft drinks. DragonPass leftover V1 is MU / FM only and not on Priority Pass.
Hainan tickets should walk to Gate 101, not T2.
Shenzhen / Air China boarding passes do not open tyn5.
Domestic leftover check-in dies 35 minutes before STD. International leftover dies at 40 in T2 C.
Boarding leftover opens 40 minutes before STD and closes 15 minutes before. Same-terminal domestic MCT leftover 45 / 90; cross-terminal 60 / 120. Do not copy the 35-minute clock onto Hong Kong / Macau / Bangkok / Kuala Lumpur.
T2 C is a small international hall — you will not get lost.
240-hour TWOV stay inside Shanxi is Taiyuan and Datong only. Skip-immigration is not offered here.
DragonPass leftover T2 airside next to Gate 205, 06:00–22:00; a second leftover pin is landside T2 安检大厅 door 3 on the right
The only named bowl-and-bottle stop on the DragonPass restaurant card. Confirm which pin is staffed before you clear — the landside door-3 listing and the Gate 205 listing are not the same counter.
Landside T2 check-in hall around 安检大厅 door 3, before the domestic security bank
Sealed drinks on the T2 landside spine when you still have time before the 35-minute cutoff. Do not invent a 24-hour convenience name the airport page does not post.
Sterile waiting hall around the T2 domestic gates, including the Gate 203 / Gate 205 spine
Look for 直饮水 machines at the gates. Official leftover does not post a bottle map or a fountain count — fill here rather than inventing a branded refill wall.
Sterile waiting hall around gates 101–105 after T1 domestic security
T1 is the Hainan / Air China hall. Fill at the gate 直饮水 rather than walking the landside corridor back to T2 for a bottle.
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