Kowloon Tong Station
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Kowloon Tong
九龍塘  |
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| MTR rapid transit station | ||||||||||||||||
Platform 1 (East Rail Line)
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| Cantonese Yale | Gáulùngtòng | |||||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Jiǔlóngtáng | |||||||||||||||
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| Location |
Suffolk Road × To Fuk Road, Kowloon Tong Kowloon City District, Hong Kong |
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| Coordinates | 22°20′13″N 114°10′34″E / 22.3370°N 114.1762°ECoordinates: 22°20′13″N 114°10′34″E / 22.3370°N 114.1762°E | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | MTR Corporation (Kwun Tong Line); Kowloon–Canton Railway Corporation (East Rail Line) | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | MTR Corporation | |||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 4 (1 island platform (Kwun Tong Line) and 2 side platforms (East Rail Line)) | |||||||||||||||
| Connections | Bus, public light bus | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground (Kwun Tong Line); at-grade (East Rail Line) | |||||||||||||||
| Platform levels | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened |
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| Electrified | 1983 (East Rail Line) | |||||||||||||||
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 Kowloon Tong
Location within the MTR system
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Jiǔlóngtáng |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Gáulùngtòng |
| IPA | [kɐ̌ulo̭ŋtʰɔ̭ːŋ] |
| Jyutping | Gau2lung4tong4 |
Kowloon Tong (Chinese: 九龍塘; Cantonese Yale: Gáulùngtòng) is a station on MTR's Kwun Tong Line and East Rail Line in New Kowloon, Hong Kong. The station serves Kowloon Tong and its vicinity, including Yau Yat Tsuen, the Festival Walk shopping centre, City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University.
This station serves as one of the two interchange stations for the East Rail Line, leading up to the New Territories and entry point to mainland China. Therefore, it is one of the busiest stations in the system. The load of Kowloon Tong station was heavily reduced, when a new interchange station was built at Tsim Sha Tsui/East Tsim Sha Tsui. It is because, prior to the commissioning of the KCR East Rail extension to East Tsim Sha Tsui station, Kowloon Tong station was the only station offering such interchange to passengers.
A new concourse for East Rail Line was opened on 15 April 2004 to increase its capacity.
On 28 September 2008, turnstiles separating the respective concourse of Kwun Tong Line and East Rail Line were removed.
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