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Chongqing Craziest Monorail: Train Through a Building at Lij

Riding China’s Craziest Monorail — It Goes Straight Through a Building!

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Riding China’s Craziest Monorail — It Goes Straight Through a Building!

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CN Walking2025-07-2128 min

Nestled among the mountains of southwestern China, Chongqing is a city with steep hills and dramatic elevation changes that challenge traditional urban planning. The Line 2 monorail rises and falls with the terrain, culminating in a remarkable section at Lijiba Station where the train descends from over 60 meters above ground, then enters a residential building on the 6th floor and passes through it before continuing its journey. This is presented as real engineering, not fiction, and the ride is described as one of the world’s craziest monorails. The video blends geography, technology, and urban design to show how Chongqing defies flat-land assumptions and embraces bold transportation solutions, from the high cityscape views to the moment the train enters and exits the building. The journey captures the interplay of mountains, bridges, and modern infrastructure that makes Chongqing a standout metropolis in China.

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July 21, 2025, Summer in China

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An adventurous ride on Chongqing’s Line 2 monorail, featuring the famous train-through-building at Liziba Station, and a tour of the city’s dramatic mountain-to

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CN Walking ventures into one of China’s wildest urban rail stories, riding Line 2 through a landscape of mountains, rivers, and dramatic engineering. The video opens with a tease of a monorail that climbs nearly vertical cliffs, dives into tunnels, and even enters a residential building at Liziba Station, all part of Chongqing’s signature 3D Transportation. We follow the route as it winds along the Jialing River, climbs over bridges, and threads through a park built into the mountainside. The traveler explains how the system’s elevated, straddling design keeps noise low and turning radius tight, while the Osaka-inspired train model glides on rubber tires with air suspension for a surprisingly quiet ride. We glimpse the moment the train breaches the famous building and observe how the station and apartment tower remain structurally separate, separated by a narrow 20 cm gap that makes them “neighbors.” The journey showcases not just transportation but urban imagination—bridges, parks, a

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Nestled among the mountains of southwestern China, Chongqing is a city unlike any other. Built on steep hills and shaped by dramatic elevation changes, it presents one of the most challenging urban landscapes in the world. In a place where flat land is scarce and the terrain is extremely uneven,...

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Chongqing, perched in the mountains of southwestern China, is showcased as a living engineering marvel in this travel video about the Line 2 monorail. The city’s extreme terrain and dramatic elevation changes have driven bold urban design, culminating in a monorail system that threads through the urban fabric in extraordinary fashion. The centerpiece is the Lijiba Station section, where the train dives from over 60 meters above ground, curves with the mountain’s contour, and then surprisingly enters a residential building on the 6th floor, passing straight through it before continuing its journey. This is presented not as fiction but as real-world innovation, blending geography, technology, and urban planning. Viewers are invited to ride along—from high overlooks of Chongqing’s cityscape to the surreal moment the train vanishes into a building—framing the monorail as a symbol of modern infrastructure meeting dramatic landscape. The video guides viewers through station interiors, forest

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