What 2nd Class Looks Like on China Bullet Train

Channel: Because I'm Lizzy Published: July 15, 2026 Duration: 17:52

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This video offers a straightforward look at second class seating on a Chinese bullet train. The host boards in Guizhou province and finds a clean, comfortable carriage with rows of reclining seats. Unlike first class, there are no free meals, but the seats are padded and the aisles are wide. The video captures the hum of the train, the passing landscape of karst mountains, and the quiet conversations of fellow passengers. The host buys a snack from the trolley and shows how to use the onboard WiFi. It is an honest, unpolished glimpse into how millions of Chinese travel every day—affordable, punctual, and surprisingly pleasant.

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taking a high-speed train in China. Now, you've seen the first class, the business class, the seats that lie flat, the VIP lounges. But today, I want to do something different. I want to show you the way that millions of people travel every single day. Literally millions around 7 to 11 million people use highspeed trains. So, I'm just going to show you a regular secondass seat and how it is in the station, in the train, and just show you as much as I possibly can. And you know what? I'm not even heading to a tourist destination, a tourist hot hot spot.

I'm heading to one of the poorest provinces in China. I'm heading to Guay Joe Province, this small little city called Juan East City. So, this train is probably as normal as you're going to get. Now that I have this as my amazing background, let me give you some facts about this trip. Let me check on my phone. So this ride I'm taking now, it's 654 kilometers and I'm paying $262 R&B. So that is $36. This ride now with the highspeed train, it takes me 3 and 1/2 hours to get to J City with stops in between to pick other people up. With a car, it would have

taken me around 7 hours and it would have cost 420 R&B for toll gates. And I mean, I definitely already have my laptop here, everything ready because I know I'm going to work. I'm going to read. So much more convenient with the highspeed train. Going to get myself something to eat cuz it's quite a long trip. I mean, we got over there. We got KFC over there. This is just a normal station, guys. Just a normal station here in Kwaming. It's not even a first tier city, but you don't want to see this place during spring festival or the October holiday. Look at

these images. It's crazy. Let's go get something to eat. I love how they make so many things in English. Look, the signs, everything will make it so convenient for us as foreigners here. Let's buy something, some snacks. Now that I'm walking here and I'm looking at like the floor and the infrastructure, I can never get bored talking about China's infrastructure or being shocked at their infrastructure. This is a normal train station. I am not in a big big city right now. And talking about like the infrastructure and how clean everything is. China is

building a new train or developing a new train, the new mag train that can go 920 kilometers per hour. Yes, I said that right. 920 km per hour. Literally faster than a Boeing 737 taking off. Trains are literally going to be faster than a plane. That is insane because I mean these trains, these mag left trains, they have no wheels running on the tracks. It's just this powerful magnets that are lifting the train. There's no friction, which means there is no speed limit. China isn't there yet, but they're busy developing it at this very moment. I'll put the

link down in my description below for the video I watched about that on someone else's channel. Very, very interesting. Let's get on the train. So once you go on trip.com, make sure it says e ticket, but 99% of the time it will be an e ticket. So you don't need to get a ticket when you come here. All you need is your passport and then make sure you stand on the line that has this machine. It will always be either on the complete right or the complete left. Let me show you how easy it is. If it doesn't want to scan like mine just didn't want to, don't

worry. It happens like nine out of 10 times. The guy there, that's why he's there. He just puts in your passport number and it will go through. So, don't panic if it's the machine doesn't read your passport. So we are in carriage six and seat 11. Look how long is this train? Oh, it's a double one. Look here. Wow. Look all the way down there. All the way down there. I mean, we got out in the middle and that was carriage 11. And I'm in carriage six. And look how far I got to walk. Okay, here we are. Carriage six. But we are going to read 11 11. Okay, we

have a nice little window seat. Okay, here we go. Look at all this space. So, here you press it. Oh, there we go. Oh, look at that. So comfortable. Look at all my space. I mean, I'm literally lying down. We got a nice little view over here. Little bit sad this is not a window, but let's not cry about it. At least I can see nicely over there. Look here. I can sit and work. More than enough space. Very nice. can work. Usually, sometimes they will have plugs here, but this one seems like it's not that nice. A lot of the times down here, they have the plugs.

The first class will always have a plug, but I mean, this is, let's say, eight out of the 10 trains I always go on, they have the plugs. So, like I said, we're traveling like normal people today. So, this train doesn't have it. So, we don't need it. Oh, there's a curtain even. Oh, wow. Guys, this is crazy. We were supposed to leave. Can you see there? 4:54. Look at the time. 454. Here we go. Got some nice neighbors next to me. They seem quiet. Going to be a good trip. Sometimes it can be noisy, sometimes not. So far, it's a little bit noisy at the back,

but I mean, that's how it's going to be. They're just excited. The trip is starting. Usually like 15 20 minutes after this trip, they they calm it down. But let's see how it goes. Let's go. So, we have just arrived at one of our first stops. Let's see here. So, we are stopping. We're stopping in Chu Jing. And then we have one more stop in Guang North. It even says the time will be there and the time we'll leave again. Everything. Incredible. And also, I just saw this is the big train. Look at this. It has 16 carriages and the capacity is more than 1,100

people on this train. The top speed on this train is 350 kilometers per hour. Look at that. That is incredible. 1,100 people on a train. That is we are now changing station even in English. Wow. Never have to worry. I mean the writing there in the front Chinese and English the comments, the what do you call it? Jeez, where's my English? I feel like my Chinese getting better than my English. But yeah, the announcements are even in English. So no need to worry if you can't speak any Chinese. Look, these people live now because there's no one sitting next

to me for the next two hours. That's exciting. But I'm so excited. Let's go take a walk through the train. Let's go check what everyone's doing. Scrolling. How can she scroll? Because there's 5G on the train, by the way. Kids sleeping. Everyone on their phone cleaning the window. She wants a nice view. Even on the tablet, you can chill. Oh, here are some chargers if you would like to charge. I see. Is there someone in here? Oh, my bad. Oh, thank you. Is the toilet. Okay. Lock it. There I am. Hello. So, some signs and a place to wash. A little bit dirty,

right? And uh toilet, normal toilet. No smoking. Usually these signs are in English, but today it is not. But I know it's like if they find you smoking, you're going to pay a fine from 500 up to 2,000 R&B. Anybody might go to jail. So, no smoking here. Got a mirror to check out the outfit. Looking good, Lizzy. Yeah. Toilet. Nothing special, but let me actually use it. Otherwise, it's just real, right? Talk about the bathroom. Here in China, it's not really common for there to be tissues in the bathroom. So, if you're especially a woman, always make sure

you carry tissues with you. Here's a place you can fill up water, make some noodles for you. lot of seats here. There are a lot of places for luggage and some vegetables. This is something that amazes me. Look how fast we're going. I feel like China really just breaks this myth that trains are slow and here we're going and then it's like beautiful and then we're going straight through a tunnel and I feel like that is the difference between China and many other countries because many other countries the trains and even the cars they have to go like around

the mountain and it takes forever but here in China they just like go straight through the mountain and that really takes a lot of time away from traveling. So, we're like traveling. Look, there we're in a tunnel. We're just like going to see all these mountains all the time. It's really just amazing to see and really put into perspective how advanced China is. I will never change for you. out of the train. We're supposed to get out 2025. So, we stopped on time. We're here. Guys, that train ride was really way smoother than any plane I've ever taken in

my entire life. 11 times out of 10, I'll take a train. Yes, I'll always take a train. It's so much nicer. The time was really fast to be quite honest with you. And I'm very shocked about this railway station. I did not expect it to be this busy. I saw it's like a small little city because they say like 1 to 2 million people live here and for China that's not that big. And then they have a lot of like village areas around it. But I promise you, I did not expect this. We just go out here. Okay, now I'm going to get a diddi go to my hotel. I'm excited to

see my hotel. Apparently my hotel is really nice. So, let's quickly check that out before I say bye. Okay, we got a diddy very fast today. A nice woman's helping me. Nice guy. Oh, thank you. I honestly thought we're going to wait much longer for that, but we got a Diddy. Let's go to the hotel. Damn people, we are on the 18th floor. It's okay. Okay. Meet Jen. Huh? Okay. Good night. Bye. Bye. Bye. Damn. Okay. shower. Woo! We got a bath. Yay. Wow. So nice. Wow. A place like this. Can you believe not even 400 R&B a night? It is crazy. Chinese hotels just

keep on amazingly. The quality you get for the price, it's crazy. Okay, guys. Long trip. I'm going to I smell like train. No, still smells good. Okay, I'm okay. But yeah, guys, I'm going to take a nice bath now. Thanks for joining me on this video. I hope you had fun. Oh, I forgot the coin. I wanted to do the coin. I've always wanted to do like the coin test to show you how stable is the train, but it's okay. We'll do it next time. But yeah, I really tried to show you everything today that you would usually see. Why did the tea just go on? But yeah, I

really try to show you everything that I usually see on trains to show you that it's true or not true. And today we really took like the lower grade train if that makes any sense. So this will be like the lowest secondass seat you can find with like no chargers. And look how comfortable was it. It was really clean. So yeah, take first class if you want and business class, but I've been okay without it. I think I've taken first class once and it was not worth it the price cuz it's exactly the same. So, I've never ever taken business class because second

class just more than enough. It's comfortable. So, yeah. Ask me any questions if you have it down below. I'm here for you. Thanks for watching guys. Remember to subscribe and yeah, just excited for the next video. See you in the next one. Okay, bye everyone.

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