Jordan Station

Jordan 佐敦

Jordan Station Platform

Line Tsuen Wan Code JOR Service hours 0603/0052 Connections Bus, Minibus

District Yau Tsim Mong Area Kwun Chung Map MTR Website Coordinates 22°18′18″N 114°10′19″E / 22.304888°N 114.171845°E / 22.304888; 114.171845Coordinates: 22°18′18″N 114°10′19″E / 22.304888°N 114.171845°E / 22.304888; 114.171845

Opened December 31, 1979 Type of station Underground Type of platforms Island No. of platforms 2 No. of exits 7 No. of lifts 1 No. of shops 8

Station location

Jordan Station Concourse

Jordan is a station on the Hong Kong MTR Tsuen Wan Line. It has dark green and light green livery. It is named after Jordan Road. About 220,000 passengers go through this station every day.

Location

Jordan is located in Kwun Chung at the intersection of two main thoroughfares: Nathan Road and Jordan Road, the station eponymously named after the latter. The northern portion of Kowloon Park is only a few blocks south of the station and King's Park is about 250m northeast using Jordan Road.^[1] A number of important hotels, buildings, and shopping centres are within walking distance of the station. These include the Baden-Powell International House, Eaton Hotel Hong Kong, and the Antiquities and Monuments Office.^[1]

History

Jordan station opened on 31 December 1979 as part of the second phase of the MTR that extended the Kwun Tong Line from Shek Kip Mei to Tsim Sha Tsui. When the Tsuen Wan Line opened on 10 May 1982, the Kwun Tong Line was shortened and terminated at Yau Ma Tei, the first stop north of Jordan, and Jordan was transferred to the Tsuen Wan Line. In 2000, along with five other stations on the Tsuen Wan Line, Jordan became one of the first stations in the MTR network to be retrofitted with platform screen doors which aid in ventilation, crowd control and passenger safety.^[2]

Station layout

Jordan is laid out in a similar manner to many MTR stations. Passengers enter on the ground level and take escalators down to the concourse. From the concourse level they can then choose in which direction they would like to travel and take another escalator ride down to the respective platform. Platforms 1 and 2 are arranged in the simple island platform layout. Jordan was one of the first stations in the MTR system to incorporate platform screen doors.^[2]

Entrances/exits

• A: Yue Hwa Chinese Products
• B: Queen Elizabeth Hospital
  • B1: Chung Hing Hotel
  • B2: Diocesan Girls' School
• C: Kowloon Park
  • C1: Austin Road
  • C2: Bowring Street
• D: Austin Road
• E: Prudential Centre/ Pruton Prudential Hotel

Transport Connections

See also

• Jordan, Hong Kong

References

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