travel-query

To query 12306 high-speed rail schedules and fares, provide a valid YYYY-MM-DD date and three-letter station codes for your departure and arrival stations. The skill retrieves official departure times, durations, seat classes, and prices.

Yes, you can find the earliest or latest train by searching routes between your specified Chinese stations on a specific date. The query compares available services and returns departure and arrival times for selection.

The skill resolves common Chinese station names into the three-letter 12306 station codes required by the API. This conversion is necessary to accurately query train schedules, fares, and ticket availability.

Yes, retrieving Chinese train ticket availability and route details requires shell access for curl commands and Python standard-library JSON parsing. This environment is necessary to fetch and process official 12306 data.

When looking up train routes between Chinese stations, you can compare departure and arrival times, total journey duration, available seat classes, ticket fares, and current ticket availability across multiple services.

Train schedule queries fail because the 12306 API requires three-letter station codes rather than common names. You must resolve your Chinese station names into these specific codes before querying routes, schedules, and fares.