China Train Ticket for 12306官网

The app is very friendly and easy to use. Never had a problem using it.

I am a US passport holder. My passport can be used to reserve Chinese airlines flight in china online; however, for this app, the passports for both my wife and I are said to be not valid. Even at the time you believe it need to be verified, it would be better for a Chinese valid account holder to purchase the ticket and then may be have the foreign passport holder to show the passport when picking up the tickets. I would think it will be difficult for an app to track all different types of passports in the would as they are being updated.

Hard to do better than this for train tickets in China. All the details are there, it doesn't charge fees like third-party sites or apps do and it's very reliable. Plus it has some great features like tracking. The only missing thing is completely translating everything in English.