Tianjin Binhai International Airport (TSN ) is located in the east of the urban area, in Dongli District, which is 15 km (9 miles) to the east of the urban area. It is a second alternative to high-speed train, especially if wanting to reduce the added travel time and cost that comes associated with flying into Beijing -- about 120 km (75 miles) from Tianjin.The home base of Tianjin Airlines and the delightfully humble Okay Airways, domestic routes include most major Chinese cities. A few international routes are available, including destinations in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Mongolia.

Tianjin Railway Station, sometimes known locally as the 'East Station', is the main station in Tianjin.It serves the bullet train to Beijing South train station. One-way tickets are 55 for Economy, 66 for Business, or 94 for VIP. The bullet train designation is a 'C' and takes about 33 minutes, traveling up to 300 km/h.There are shuttle buses between Tianjin railway station and Tianjin airport. A ticket costs 15 per trip. The bus stops about 200m from the train station northern gate (back gate). When you get off the shuttle bus, walk along the pavement to reach the train station.By taxi, the fare from Tianjin railway station to Tianjin airport is about ?50-65. Use the official taxi stand (just follow the signage)- it is advised not to use any of the touts that offer taxi services.

Tianjin South Railway Station serves as an intermediate station for bullet trains between Beijing South and Shanghai Hongqiao. It is far from the city center, but Metro Line 2 connects the station to the city center. 

Tianjin West Station is the terminus for trains between Tianjin West and Shanghai Hongqiao. It can be reached by Metro Line 1 and 6.

The Tianjin Metro  is the rapid transit system in the city of Tianjin, which was the second city, after Beijing, in mainland China to operate a subway system. Opened in 1984, the system has 5 operating lines including Line 1line 2, line 3, line 6 and line 9Line 1the Tianjin Metro Line 1 run from Liuyuan in the north to Tianjin University of Finance & Economics in the south, covering Beichen, Hongqiao, Nankai, Heping, Hexi and Jinnan Districts. With a length of 26 km (16 mi), the metro line will have 22stations in operation Line 2Tianjin metro line 2 stretch from east to west of the city, connecting six districts of the city including Xiqing, Nankai, Heping, Hebei, Hedong and Lidong. In August, 2014, the Binhai International Airport was put into use. At present, there are 20 stations including Binhai International Airport.Line 3Tianjin metro line 3 runs from northeast to southwest of the city. It is about about 34 kilometers (21 miles) starting from Xiaodian in Beichen District to South Railway Station in Xiqing District with 26 stations  This metro line interchanges with Line 1 at Yingkou Road Station and Line 2 & Line 9 at Tianjin Railway Station.Line 5Tianjin Metro Line 5 run from Beichen Science & Technology Park North to Liqizhuang South via 28 stations. This subway line is designed to form an “O” shape circular line with metro line 6, completing the main urban rail transit framework. Tianjin Metro Line 5 will link 6 districts including Beichen, Hebei, Hedong, Hexi, Nankai and Xiqing. It will pass through several convenient stations such as Tianjin Vocational Institute, Cultural Centre, Sports Center and First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of TCM. Tianjin subway line 5 will start trial operation in June, 2018.Line 6Tianjin Metro Line 6, a rapid transit line running from semi-circular from north-east to south-east Tianjin. It was opened on 6 August 2016.The line is currently 45 km long and has 38 stations of which are underground.  The metro line passes North Railway Station and West Railway Station as well as some local popular attractions, such as Water Park, Olympic Sports Center, Hongguang Park and Meijiang Convention & Exhibition Center. Line 6, together with Line 5 will form a loop around Tianjin.Line 9Tianjin Metro Line 9 run by Binhai Mass Transit Development Co. Ltd. The line opened on 28 March 2004. It has since undergone expansion, and currently spans 52.8 km and has 19 stations and connects Tianjin with neighbouring Binhai.

Taxis are abundant. The minimum cost for 3 km is ¥8, (¥1.7 per km thereafter). Taxis also charge for the time while the vehicle is stationary at ¥1.7 for every five minutes (cost is exempt for less than five minutes). 

Tianjin Ancient Culture Stree is Located near Mazu Palace (tianhougong), the entrance to Ancient Culture Street is marked by a huge Qing - era archway with a tiled roof and upturned eaves. After passing under the arch and into this veritable tourist trap, the architecture remains largely the same and is reminiscent of the last dynastic period in Chinese history. A large public square is the staging ground for innumerable holiday festivals and cultural performances. Each year, on the 23rd day of the third lunar month, the sensational Imperial Festival is held here wherein temple fairs and folk performances are held to celebrate the birth of the sea goddess Mazu.Ancient Culture Street is a largely pedestrian district crammed with shops, snack stalls, multi-colored pennants, clay figurine craftsmen, and Wei kite merchants.

With more than 400 merchants peddling their often fake but handsome wares, Shenyang Dao is the perfect place to pick up tasteful decorative items such as ceramics, furniture, clocks, watches, calligraphy materials, and handicrafts molded out of precious metals.

　　Erduoyan fried rice cake　　Since you visit Tianjin, Erduoyan fried rice cake is a must-go snack for you. It is named together with Goubuli stuffed bun, 18th Street Fried Dough Twists as the three specialties in Tianjin with a history of nearly hundred year.　　Erduoyan fried rice cake has the feature of yellow, soft, hard and fragrant. Erduoyan fried rice cake has glutinous rice as skin, red bean and white ground sugar as stuffing. After fried it, the cake is like a yellow ball floating in the hot oil, with golden-yellow color, rugged face, but crispy outside, tender inside. When tasty, it has a pleasant smell. When bite, it is crispy, sweet and soft. The skin is so crispy, once bite, the juicy can come out automatically. It tastes better during it is hot. But beware of the heat inside.　　Erduoyan fried rice cake is delicious with a special flavor. It contains high-protein, carbohydrate, corase fiber, Calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium which very benefit for health. It can tonify, warm stomach and stop diarrhea, make the mind and face both peace and beauty, benefit Spleen and reduce dampness, reducing fever and causing diuresis, and detumescence by detoxification.　　How to get the name “Erduoyan fried rice cake” In the past, when the people living in north offer name of an area, sometimes it was named after the shape of area. Such as, a hutong with the entrance is rather narrow, but the middle back is quite wide with spacious room, in the shape of erduoyan. Thus the Hutong got the name erduoyan. The fried rice cake restaurant was close to Erduoyan Hutong, thus got the name Erduoyan fried rice cake . It is originally made in year Guangxu of Qing dynasty (1900), muslim Liu, wanchun made the cake. For the delicious and cheap cake, Liu,wan chun was named as fried cake Liu. Because “cake” and Gao has same pronunciation, however Gao means “be richer and successful”, for this reason, Erduoyan fried rice cake is sold so well until now. Now many famous snack restaurants in Tianjin sells Erduoyan fried rice cake, you might have a try, for both enjoying delicious taste and the good blessing.

　　Tianjin Goubuli stuffed bun　　Tianjin Goubuli stuffed bun is a traditional Tianjin snacks and ranked as one of three specialties of Tianjin. Nowadays, Goubuli stuffed bun is so well-known that it became another name for Tianjin.　　Goubuli steamed bun is so white, small and lovely. The skin of the steamed bun is evenly wrapped and each with pleats not less than 15. Its outside looks like an autumn chrysanthemum in the thin fog. Except pretty outside, when served, it is soft and mix fragrance of wheat powder, meat and onion, it taste extremely delicious. When bite, oily, but not greasy, however very fresh. The skin of steamed bun is thin, but hard; the ground meat mixed with ginger, sauce, sesame oil, SMG, spare rib soup, taste fresh but not greasy. The finished steamed bun keeps intact, at same time maintain the shape of Chrysanthemum. Under current modern skills, after improvement inherited from tradition, there came into being 6 categories and 98 various steamed bun. The cook invented “Jinzhen steamed bun”, “Longfeng steamed bun”, “Yuanyang steamed bun”, “Parsley steamed bun”, “assorted steamed bun”,” Prawns leek steamed bun” with cooking skill of steam, hot boil, roast and fried based on the raw material of chicken duck, fish and meat, seafood, seasoned vegetable, wild grass and mushrooms.　　Goubuli steamed bun does not mean “dog ignore”. In Daoguang of Qing Dynasty, there was a farmer who had a son in his 40. In order to keep safe, he gave name “dog” to his son. Late “dog” himself opened a steamed bun shop and invented skill of “watery filling” and “half-leaven dough” for the steamed bun soft and fresh, in the shape of Chrysanthemum. The steamed bun was so delicious and attracted lots of clients. “Gog” was so busy and did not have time to talk with anyone. As time passing by, the steamed bun made by “Dog” was named as “Goubuli”. Nowadays, after one and half century, people loved Goubuli. In Nov., 2011, Goubuli steamed bun was granted as the third national cultural relics as the manual skill of traditional manufacture. Goubuli is well-known around the world. King Norodom Sihanouk once visited Goubuli steam bun restaurant in Tianjin and asked the cook for making the steamed bun for him meanwhile tasted the porridge and pickles together according to the tradition. When president of USA George Bush once worked in Beijing before, he went to Goubuli steamed bun restaurant for try. For tourists to Tian jin, Goubuli steamed bun is a must, the same as the tourist climb up Great Wall in Beijing.

　　Black garlic seed beef　　Black garlic seed beef is a local cuisine of Tianjin. Except Tianjin, It is hard to find this cusine. Black garlic seed beef is a must-go dish for those who visit Tianjin.　　The cuisine has the feature of tender meat, fresh taste, and feels sweet and spicy. From the name, obviously garlic and beef are main ingredient of the dish. Black pepper, oyster sauce are the key seasonings. The dish demands high on seasoning of pickling and cooking the dish. The texture of beef is rather rough, only pickling for a while, the meat can absorb the flavor of seasoning. In order to make the beef more tasty, it needs to absorb sauce, ground black pepper, cooking alcohol, salt. In order to make the beef more tender, beef should mix with egg and starch. At last, veg root, onion, carrot, tomato should be added for pickling beef. One reason is to wipe off the stink of beef, another reason is when served, the beef has veg flavor. When eating, though beef with veg fragrant, but can not see where the veg it is. When cooling, put little butter, add black pepper and oyster sauce, the three seasonings makes the beef taste pleasant. This dish combine western and Chinese method in cooking, though not complicated, but if well-done, there still require a lot of work. Currently the best dish is served by Guiyuan restaurant located at No. 103, Chengdu road, Heping district.　　The beef is wrapped with thick sauce, meanwhile with butter flavored garlic, it looks very tasty. The beef seed is big, in appropriate ratio of lean and fat, hard but tender, the cooking is appropriately done, the beef is not over-cooked, without the stink of beef. Black pepper play an important role, it makes the beef fresh and tender with little sweet, not hard and soft. The dish is more tasty with sauce. If you like garlic, but care about the smell, then this dish can meet your taste however you do not need to worry about the bad smell of garlic in this dish.　　Beef contains high protein, low fat, and various amino acid and mineral, high rate of chemical absorption, and it can develop immunity from disease, promote protein metabolism and synthesis and warm stomach.

　　18th Street Fried Dough Twists go together with Goubuli stuffed bun, Erduoyan fried rice cakes ranks as three specialties in Tianjin. It is not only a gourmet of Tianjin, but also it is good for saving and bringing home to share with friends and relatives.　　The material for 18th Street Fried Dough Twists is quite choosy. Only after choosy, it is can be used. Every material is non- addictive, green and natural. 18th Street Fried Dough Twists has the saying of making different dough according to different weather. According to different solar terms, humidity, temperature, matched with appropriate ratio of water and wheat powder even including the force of making dough. In the middle of every 18th Street Fried Dough Twists, there is one assorted crispy strip made by sesame, Peach, melon seed kernel, plum, sweet scented osmanthus, green and red silk and flavor water. Once the Dough Twists is done, It is deep fried in peanut oil with crystal sugar, spread over green and red silk, and melon strip. The finished 18th Street Fried Dough Twists has golden flavor, intact evenly.　　18th Street Fried Dough Twists is famous for fragrant, sweet and crispy. 18th Street Fried Dough Twists is oily, smooth, medium-sweet ,with good shape, and very tasty. In dry and cool, it can be kept of few months, not out of quality or turn to soft. It is kept long time under the condition that it is not put into any addictive. This is the charming point of this dish.　　18th Street Fried Dough Twists originated from 1927 and was made by Liu,laoba. Because the shop was located near 18th street, thus got the name 18th Street Fried Dough Twists. Currently, 18th Street Fried Dough Twists maintain exquisite crafts, manufacture, with crispy taste, pretty pack, for turning from crafts to skill, and from skill to artist. Meanwhile it keeps traditional ethnic traits too.　　The size of 18th Street Fried Dough Twists is different. Some is 50g, others is thousands of gram heavy. Regardless big or small, the outside and inside is the same crispy. 18th Street Fried Dough Twists had one recorded in Geniesse, it is 1.5564 in length, but 24.98 kilogram in weight. From here, you can see the cook of 18th Street Fried Dough Twists bear high skills. In 1963 and 1964, when Premier Zhou and Chaiman zhu, de visited Tianjin, they once tried 18th Street Fried Dough Twists whose manufacture was recorded by national cultural relics as representative project.