Worst case if you wind up having to fly IIRC there's a flight from Vladivostok to Harbin or to Beijing. If you're heading through China to Taiwan by rail would you be thinking of ending up in Xiamen and taking the ferry to Kinmen (Taiwan) then the domestic hop from Kinmen into Taipei?We're trying not to have to fly out but use a train or bus to get into northern China (Harbin), it's proving difficult to work out how to do it. There is a ferry to S. Korea but we will be heading to Taiwan and would prefer to use rail through China to get there.
I travelled Helsinki-St Petersburg-Moscow-Vladivostok in 2010 and would be happy to answer any question.
Can't help you with getting to China by train as I believe the only rail connection goes via North Korea.
Another possibility is the ferry from Vladivostok to Japan.
There are many other aspects to this trip we could discuss.
Allen
Ok, can you tell me how are you doing this? The only option on the RZD website I see for Kiev to Moscow train is online buying of a ticket which will have to be picked up in RUSSIA, which would be impossible for you. If that is not hte case, let me know, but I want to make sure you're good on this. If we confirm this to be true, I can point you to a different website which will be cheaper than English-based proxies.Have spent some time using Seat 61 to check on ticket sources, there are major differences from company to company for the same journey. From London as far as Warsaw all tickets have/will be bought directly via Deutsche Bahn via their English language website The savings compared to Rail Europe/SNCF/Polrail are enormous providing it is done soon after the tickets are available. Within Poland it's difficult not to use Polrail as the site works very well but is expensive.
From Kiev to Moscow we are using RZD which is Russian Railways which is not the same as Russian Rail, again Russian Rail and Real Russia are at least a third more expensive than RZD although the RZD website (also in English) is a bit quirky, but with some patience and time working out why certain things happen it works pretty good.
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