Kowloon Station

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Kowloon 九龍

Kowloon Station at Tung Chung Line Platform Level.

Line Tung Chung Airport Express Code KOW Service hours 0604/0107 Connections Bus, Minibus

District Yau Tsim Mong Area West Kowloon/Tsim Sha Tsui Map MTR Website Coordinates 22°18′18″N 114°09′42″E / 22.304932°N 114.161531°E / 22.304932; 114.161531Coordinates: 22°18′18″N 114°09′42″E / 22.304932°N 114.161531°E / 22.304932; 114.161531

Opened June 22, 1998 Type of station Underground Type of platforms Side (Airport Express) / Island (Tung Chung Line) No. of platforms 4 No. of exits 6 No. of lifts 8 No. of shops 5

Station location

The long Elevator

Kowloon Station, Airport Express section, View from Elements, Above Check in Desk

Kowloon Station, Airport Express section, Platform Level.

Kowloon is a station on the Tung Chung Line and the Airport Express of Hong Kong's MTR. Only about 10,000 passengers use this station daily due to its inconvenient location west of the heart of Kowloon, making it one of the least used stations in the MTR system.

This station provides an in-town check-in service for flights departing Hong Kong International Airport and free shuttle bus services to most major hotels in the Tsim Sha Tsui and Yau Ma Tei areas. The station is located less than a kilometre west of Jordan Station on the Tsuen Wan Line.

People can access the shopping mall Elements directly by using the escalators linking the station concourse and the mall.

Station layout

As with other Airport Express stations, the Airport Express and Tung Chung line are separated by different concourses and different levels. Platform 2 is only used to allow travellers coming from the Hong Kong International Airport to alight except when you buy a Morning Express Ticket to Hong Kong and use Platform 2 on Mondays to Saturdays.

Entrances/Exits

There are 6 exits in Kowloon Station. They are exits A, B, C1, C2, D1 and D2. Exit D1 and D2 is to the apartment buildings Sorrento, The Waterfront, The Arch and The Harbourside. Disabled access is available at Exit B.

Airport Express In-town Check In（G）

• West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade
  • Western Harbour Tunnel bus stops, West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade

Tung Chung Line Concourse（G）

• A - Station Car Park
  • Station Car Park
• B - Airport Express Shuttle Bus
  • Airport Express Shuttle Bus stop
• C - Elements
  • C1 - Public Transport Interchange, City Golf Club, Cross Boundary Coach Terminus, Elements, International Commerce Centre
  • C2 - Sorrento, The Arch, The Harbourside, The Waterfront
• D - Elements
  • D1 - Elements
  • D2 - Sorrento, International Commerce Centre, The Arch, The Harbourside, The Waterfront

Transport connections

Bus routes

The following bus routes terminate at the Kowloon Railway Station Bus Terminus. To reach the terminus, one must use the exits to the Elements and follow the signs in the mall. Since the opening of the Elements, the route from Exit A is reserved for the car park only.

Jordan (Wui Cheung Road) Bus Terminus, which hosts bus routes to different parts of Kowloon and New Territories as well as one cross-harbour route, is also located near the Station. People can reach the terminus by a short five minute walk from Kowloon Railway Station Bus Terminus.

Cross harbour buses (Exit D2)

Kowloon Station is located in proximity to the Kowloon toll plaza of the Western Harbour Tunnel. There, you can find bus stops with routes that go towards different parts of Kowloon and the New Territories. The bus stop can be reached through Exit D2 and then by walking across a footbridge above the toll plaza. Commuters can also get onto the buses that lead to Hong Kong Island.

Minibus routes

Several minibus routes terminate at the Kowloon Railway Station Terminus, which is same as the bus routes.

History

In construction stages of this station, the station was named West Kowloon Station (Chinese: 西九龍站).

As this station was proposed as the terminus of the unbuilt East Kowloon Line, there is a reserved confined space under the Tung Chung Line platform. The space is not used due to the alignment was changed and the Kowloon Point (to the south-east of the station) Reclamation Scheme was shelved.

In the future, when the Kowloon Southern Link of the West Rail Line completes, people can walk to Austin Station to take the West Rail Line trains. Also, when the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link completes, passengers can walk to the West Kowloon Terminus, the terminus of the rail link, to take the rail link.

Neighbouring stations

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