Ranked shortlist · 10 of 40 train stations
Best train stations in Beijing
The 10 most notable train stations in Beijing, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
地铁草桥站
Zhenguosi N Rd
45 m from Caoqiao station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.738, percentile 100 of 40
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2
Jianguomen Metro Station (地铁建国门站)
Jianguomen Bridge
7 m from Jianguomen station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.544, percentile 97.44 of 40
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3
Lincuiqiao Metro Station (地铁林萃桥站)
Lincui Rd
96 m from Lincuiqiao station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.245, percentile 94.87 of 40
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4
Pingleyuan Metro Station (地铁平乐园站)
Dawang W Rd
64 m from Pingle Yuan station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.240, percentile 92.31 of 40
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5
Hepingli Beijie Metro Station (地铁和平里北街站)
Hepingli North St
43 m from Hepingli Beijie station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.165, percentile 89.74 of 40
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6
Liangmaqiao Metro Station (地铁亮马桥站)
Yansha Bridge
39 m from Liangmaqiao station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.131, percentile 87.18 of 40
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7
Beihai North Metro Station (地铁北海北站)
Di'anmen W Ave near North Gate of Beihai Park
23 m from Beihaibei station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.127, percentile 84.62 of 40
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8
Beijing Railway Station
76 m from Beijing railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 0.970, percentile 82.05 of 40
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9
西二旗站
16 m from Xi'erqi station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 0.968, percentile 79.49 of 40
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10
Beijing West Railway Station
58 m from Beijing West Railway Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 0.961, percentile 76.92 of 40
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).