Outside the Tianjin Railway Station 天津站

I still had some time to kill before I leave for the airport. I decided to just take a look outside the Tianjin Railway Station area. Tianjin is one of the growing cities of China and oweing its proximity to Beijing is a good jumping off point for visitors. Tianjin is not a new city and has been around for several centuries. The train station is the station where the bullet trains from Beijing call and not surprisingly, it was quite big. There was a very large plaza outside the train station. I have seen these kinds of large plazas and still find it hard to believe that a place this large can fill up with people. If you don’t believe me, come here during the Spring Festival.

The Tianjin Railway Station building itself looked quite dated. It sports a similar look to the train station of Changchun in Jilin province. This station was large, wide and imposing and most Chinese train stations tend to be. This is obviously an old structure as I was kind of hoping they would have a newer structure for Tianjin much like Beijing and Shanghai do. Maybe if traffic picks up and maybe they would decide to build a new train station for them. Much like the train station in Changchun, this station has a very communist type of design. I can’t really put my finger on it but I know it when I see it. As Tianjin’s major train station, it sees tremendous amount of traffic throughout the year. It has also become some sort of landmark as other structures have been set up within the area. More on that in the next post.

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