King Street Station (Seattle)

King Street Station
View from southeast, city skyline in background
Location	303 South Jackson Street Seattle, Washington 98104 United States
Coordinates	47°35′54″N 122°19′47″W / 47.59833°N 122.32972°W / 47.59833; -122.32972Coordinates: 47°35′54″N 122°19′47″W / 47.59833°N 122.32972°W / 47.59833; -122.32972
Owned by	City of Seattle
Line(s)	BNSF Northwest Division
Platforms	3 island platforms (+1 side platform under construction)
Tracks	6 (+1 under construction)
Connections	Light rail:   Central Link (transfer at International District/Chinatown station) Transit bus services: King County Metro Sound Transit Express Community Transit Long-distance bus services: Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach Northwestern Trailways Travel Washington
Construction
Parking	Free short term parking Paid parking available nearby
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	Amtrak code: SEA
History
Opened	May 10, 1906
Rebuilt	2008–2013
Traffic
Passengers (2016)	649,491  7.38% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Tukwila toward Eugene–Springfield Amtrak Cascades Edmonds toward Vancouver, BC Tacoma toward Los Angeles Coast Starlight Terminus Terminus Empire Builder Edmonds toward Chicago Terminus North Line Edmonds toward Everett Tukwila toward Lakewood South Line Terminus Rocky Mountaineer Terminus Coastal Passage Pacific Central (Vancouver) toward Banff or Jasper Pioneer Square toward Angle Lake Central Link Transfer at: International District/Chinatown Stadium toward University of Washington   Former services   Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Terminus Pioneer Discontinued in 1997 Tacoma toward Chicago
King Street Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	3rd Ave. S. and S. King St., Seattle, Washington
Area	less than one acre
Built	1906
NRHP Reference #	73001877
Added to NRHP	April 13, 1973
Location
King Street Station Location within Washington (state)

King Street Station is a train station in Seattle, Washington, United States. Located between South King and South Jackson streets and Second and Fourth Avenues South in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle, the station is just south of downtown. Built between 1904 and 1906, it served the Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railway from its grand opening on May 10, 1906, until the creation and start of Amtrak on May 1, 1971. The station was designed by the St. Paul, Minnesota architectural firm of Charles A. Reed and Allen H. Stem, who were later associate designers for the New York Central Railroad's Grand Central Terminal in New York City. King Street Station was Seattle's primary train terminal until the construction of the adjacent Oregon & Washington Depot, later named Union Station, in 1911. King Street Station was added to the National Register of Historic Places and the Washington Heritage Register in 1973.

Since the early 1990s the station was in various states of repair to undo remodels done during the middle of the Twentieth Century to "modernize" the facility, including the restoration of the elegant main waiting room. King Street Station was purchased by the City of Seattle in 2008 for $10 and, with enough funds finally in place, the restoration was finally completed in 2013.

The station is served by Amtrak Cascades, Empire Builder, and Coast Starlight trains, and by Sound Transit's Sounder commuter trains. King St. Station is also the Seattle terminus for the Rocky Mountaineer's luxury excursion train, the Coastal Passage. For the first nine months of 2006, Sounder service boarded almost 1.2 million passengers at King Street Station.