Shapingba Railway Station (the station under the mall) and Sanxia Square

A high-speed station you cannot see: the Chengdu-Chongqing line's Shapingba stop was rebuilt 2012-2018 as 'China's first high-speed TOD in a shopping district', with platforms at ground level, a seven-storey Longfor Jinsha Tianjie mall and two 200 m towers on top, and eight floors of interchange dug 47 m down for the Loop line, Line 1, Line 9, buses and taxis. It is the small one of the city's 'one airport, four stations' (a share of the Chengdu trains and little else), but for a visitor it is the most useful: two Line 1 stops to Ciqikou, one to the Gele Mountain prisons, the Sanxia Square shopping streets at the door, and since January 2025 a 'single security check' corridor from the rail exit straight into the metro. If you are arriving from Chengdu and staying on the peninsula, check whether your train stops here before booking Chongqing West.