Train Costs The first operational maglev train was in Germany most in 1979. Currently, the well-known maglev train operates in Japan. Another train in China runs 30 km from Shanghai to the nearby Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport in just 7 minutes. It operates at 300 km/h and the tisket price,is only 50 yuan($7.30) Even though only 7,000 passengers a day use the Shanghai maglev train(20 percent of capacity), it has been enough money to pay for the S1.2 billion construction costs