Kowloon Tong Station

Kowloon Tong 九龍塘

Appearance of Kowloon Tong Station

Line Kwun Tong East Rail Code KOT Service hours 0604/0111 Connections Bus, Minibus

District Kowloon City Area Kowloon Tong Map MTR Website Coordinates 22°20′13″N 114°10′34″E / 22.337021°N 114.176168°E / 22.337021; 114.176168Coordinates: 22°20′13″N 114°10′34″E / 22.337021°N 114.176168°E / 22.337021; 114.176168

Opened 1 October 1979 (Kwun Tong Line) / 4 May 1982 (East Rail Line) Type of station Underground/Ground Level Type of platforms Island (Kwun Tong Line)/ Side (East Rail Line) No. of platforms 4 No. of exits 11 No. of escalators 24 No. of lifts 7

Station location

Kowloon Tong Station
Traditional Chinese	九龍塘
Simplified Chinese	九龙塘
Transliterations Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Jiǔlóng Táng Cantonese - Jyutping gau2 lung4 tong4 - IPA [kɐ̌ʊ lə̏ʊŋ tʰɔ̏ŋ] - Yale Romanization gau2 lung4 tong4

Kowloon Tong is a station on MTR's Kwun Tong Line and East Rail Line in New Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Kowloon Tong Station serves Kowloon Tong and its vicinity, including Yau Yat Tsuen, the Festival Walk shopping centre, the City University of Hong Kong and the 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. Originally being the only such interchange station, its load was heavily reduced when a new interchange station was built at Tsim Sha Tsui/East Tsim Sha Tsui.

A new concourse for East Rail Line was opened on 15 April 2004 in order to increase its capacity.

On 28 September 2008, the Kwun Tong Line and East Rail Line interchanging gates were removed.

Contents 1 Station layout 2 Entrances/Exits 3 Transport Connections 4 Neighbouring stations 5 References

Station layout

U	Overlying Buildings	Education Bureau Kowloon Education Service Centre
Footbridge	East Rail Line platforms	footbridge connecting East Rail Line platforms, Festival Walk, Suffolk Road
G Platforms (Ground)	Exit H	Exit, customer service, MTR Shops
	Side platform, doors will open on the left
	Platform 1	East Rail Line towards Lo Wu/Lok Ma Chau
	Platform 2	East Rail Line towards Hung Hom
	Side platform, doors will open on the left
	Exit G	Exit, transport interchange, taxi stand
		Customer service, MTR Shops
	Kwun Tong Line concourse	Exits, Transport Interchange
C Concourse	East Rail Line Northern concourse	Customer service, MTR Shops, toilets
		Vending machines, ATMs
	Kwun Tong Line concourse	Customer Service, Vending machines, ATMs
		MTR Shops, Octopus Promotion Machine
		iCentre free internet service
	East Rail Line Southern concourse	Customer service, toilets, MTR Shops
		Automatic teller machines
Platforms	Platform 1	Kwun Tong Line towards Tiu Keng Leng
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	Kwun Tong Line towards Yau Ma Tei

There is a reserved space for a track connecting the East Rail Line and the Kwun Tong Line in the westbound tunnel just outside Kowloon Tong station towards Shek Kip Mei. The space was originally designed to allow Metro-Cammells to be transferred to the Kwun Tong Line when they are unloaded at Hung Hom. But the track was never built as the MTR decided to use lorries to carry all of its cars to the Kowloon Bay Depot.^[1]

Entrances/Exits

A pedestrian walkway connects Kowloon Tong MTR Station with Festival Walk, a major shopping centre.

Kwun Tong Line Concourse

• A1: Suffolk Road
• A2: Waterloo Road
• B: Suffolk Road
• C1: Festival Walk
• C2: City University of Hong Kong
• E: Kowloon Tong Education and Manpower Bureau Center

East Rail Line Southern Concourse

• D: Public Transport Interchange

East Rail Line Northern Concourse

• F: Kent Road

East Rail Line Platform No. 2 (Ground Level)

• G1: To Fuk Road
• G2: Festival Walk

East Rail Line Platform No. 1 (Ground Level)

• H: City University of Hong Kong

Transport Connections

Minibus Routes

To Academic Community Hall/Broadcast Drive/Baptist University:

• 29A (Exit A2)

To Beacon Hill:

• 29B (Exit A2)

To Kowloon City:

• 25M (Exit B2)

To World Wide Gardens:

• 61M (Exit A2)

Kowloon Tong Railway Station Bus Terminus (Exits A1 or B2)

To City One Shatin:

• 82M

To Hin King Estate:

• 88M

To Kwong Yuen Estate/Prince of Wales Hospital:

• 82M

To Sui Wo Court:

• 80M

To Sun Tin Wai Estate:

• 81M

Neighbouring stations

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Preceding station		MTR		Following station
Shek Kip Mei towards Yau Ma Tei		Kwun Tong Line		Lok Fu towards Tiu Keng Leng
Mong Kok East towards Hung Hom		East Rail Line		Tai Wai towards Lo Wu or Lok Ma Chau

References

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■ · Sunny Bay ■ · Tung Chung Tseung Kwan O Line4 after North Island Line plan (Proposed) Kennedy Town · Hong Kong University · Sai Ying Pun · Sheung Wan · Central ■■■ · Admiralty ■ · Wan Chai · Causeway Bay · Tin Hau · North Point ■ · Quarry Bay ■ · Yau Tong ■ · Tiu Keng Leng ■ · Tseung Kwan O · Hang Hau · Po Lam · LOHAS Park Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link (Hong Kong Section)5 West Kowloon ■■ · (to and from Shenzhen, Dongguan and Guangzhou) 1 If East-west Line proposal is implemented, this will use the existing tracks of Ma On Shan Line, the track of Sha Tin to Central Link which is under construction and the existing West Rail Line 2 If North-south proposal is implemented, this will use the existing tracks of East Rail Line and the track of Sha Tin to Central Link which is under construction. 3 If North Island Line proposal is implemented, it will take up Island Line stations east of Fortress Hill 4 If North Island Line proposal is implemented, it will take up Island Line stations west of Tin Hau 5 Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link ‎(Hong Kong Section) will be commissioned in 2014. 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