Kowloon station (MTR)

Location
	Kowloon Location within the MTR system Kowloon Kowloon (Hong Kong urban core) Kowloon Kowloon (Hong Kong Island)

Track layout
	Legend

Kowloon

九龍
Kowloon; 九龍
MTR rapid transit station
	Exits D2 (left) and C2 (right), in Union Square
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	九龍
Simplified Chinese	九龙
Cantonese Yale	Gáulùng
Literal meaning	Nine dragons
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Jiǔlóng
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Gáulùng
IPA	[kɐ̌ulʊ̏ŋ]
Jyutping	Gau2lung4
General information
Location	Union Square, West Kowloon; Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°18′18″N 114°09′41″E / 22.3049°N 114.1615°E
Owned by	MTR Corporation
Operated by	MTR Corporation
Line(s)	Tung Chung line; Airport Express;
Platforms	4 (1 island platform on Tung Chung line and 2 side platforms on Airport Express)
Tracks	4
Connections	Austin (out-of-station interchange):; Tuen Ma line; West Kowloon; Bus, minibus;
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Platform levels	2
Accessible	Yes
Architect	Farrells
Other information
Station code	KOW
History
Opened	22 June 1998; 26 years ago (Tung Chung line); 6 July 1998; 26 years ago (Airport Express);
Previous names	West Kowloon (During planning)
Services
Transfer at Austin
Transfer at West Kowloon
Track layout
Track layout
	Legend
Location
Location
	Kowloon Location within the MTR system Kowloon Kowloon (Hong Kong urban core) Kowloon Kowloon (Hong Kong Island)

Kowloon is a station on the Tung Chung line and the Airport Express of Hong Kong's MTR. It is one of the two Airport Express stations providing in-town check-in services for passengers departing from 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 two hundred meters west of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link Hong Kong section West Kowloon Terminus, five hundred meters west of Austin on the Tuen Ma line and a kilometre west of Jordan station on the Tsuen Wan line.

Escalators link Elements directly with the station concourse.

History

The station was designed by TFP Farrells.^[1] During the planning stage, it was called West Kowloon station (西九龍站). The construction contract (Contract 503C) was awarded to a joint venture of Kumagai Gumi, Entrecanales y Tavora, and Cubiertas y MZOV (both later merged to form Acciona) on 28 November 1994.

On 16 September 2000, the new shopping mall "Dickson CyberExpress" (迪生數碼世界) was opened by Dickson Poon. The size was 70,000 square feet (6,500 m²) spread over four levels of the station with six shopping areas.^[2] However, the mall did not have the expected volume of customers and business was weak. After half a year, the mall shrank in size. The mall's management company planned to decrease the level of the mall from 4 levels to 3 levels and to combine some of the shopping areas.^[3] Business remained poor due to sparse population near the station and a recession at that time. The mall finally closed its operation in 2005.^[4]

The station was proposed as the terminus of the unbuilt East Kowloon line; the proposal indicated using a reserved confined space under the Tung Chung line platforms.^[5]

The station is connected via footbridges to Austin on the Tuen Ma line. The station is connected to West Kowloon Terminus of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link Hong Kong section.

Station layout

As in other Airport Express stations, the Airport Express and the Tung Chung line have separated paid areas. Platform 2 is only used for disembarking passengers from Hong Kong International Airport or AsiaWorld–Expo, except during morning rush hours from Monday to Saturday for boarding passengers traveling on the line to Hong Kong station with a Morning Express Ticket.^[6]

U5	Residential and commercial area	Exits, Union Square, The Waterfront, Sorrento
		The Harbourside, The Arch, International Commerce Centre, The Cullinan
U4
	Tung Chung line concourse	Exit, Elements mall
U3	Airport Express concourse	Exit, Elements mall
	Tung Chung line concourse	Exit, Elements mall, escalator to U5
G	Airport Express check-in	Customer service, drop-off area, in-town check-in, left luggage
		MTRshops, vending machines, toilets, police post
	Tung Chung line concourse	Exits, customer service, car park, toilet
		Airport Express shuttle bus, public transport interchange
		MTRshops, Hang Seng Bank, automatic teller machines
L2 Platforms	Airport Express concourse	Customer service, drop-off area, toilets
	Side platform, doors will open on the left
	Platform 1	→ Airport Express towards AsiaWorld–Expo (Tsing Yi) →
	Platform 2	← Airport Express towards Hong Kong (Terminus)
	Side platform, doors will open on the left
	Airport Express concourse	Customer service, taxi stand, MTRshops, toilets
L4 Platforms	Platform 3	→ Tung Chung line towards Tung Chung (Olympic) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 4	← Tung Chung line towards Hong Kong (Terminus)
-	Confined space	Reserved for East Kowloon line

^[7]

Entrances and exits

Tung Chung line Concourse (G)^[8]

A - Station Car Park
B - Airport Express Shuttle Bus
C and D - Elements mall
- C1 - Public transport interchange, Cross Boundary Coach Terminus, Elements, International Commerce Centre
- C2 - Sorrento, The Arch, The Harbourside, The Waterfront
- D1 - Elements mall
- D2 - Sorrento, International Commerce Centre, The Arch, The Harbourside, The Waterfront

Airport Express In-town Check In (G)^[8]

E1-E5 - West Kowloon Cultural District, West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, Western Harbour Crossing bus stops

Gallery

The long escalator
Airport Express check-in desk, from Elements
Platform 1 (Airport Express)
Airport Express Check-in Concourse
Platform 1 (Airport Express)
Platform 3 (Tung Chung line)
Platform 3 (Tung Chung Line)
Platform 3 (Tung Chung Line)

References

^ "Hong Kong / Kowloon Station Development – Transport Super City". Fundamentally Hong Kong? Delta Four 1984 - 2044. Venice Biennale (Hong Kong). Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
^ Leung, Ambrose (12 September 2000). "Dickson CyberExpress, the physical mall of the online luxury shopping portal Dickson Cyber.com, is to be launched on Saturday by Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa". South China Morning Post. p. 2.
^ Tsang, Denise (2 March 2001). "Dickson in moves to enliven its mall". South China Morning Post.
^ "Dickson Warehouse at Kowloon Station". Archived from the original on 25 March 2004.
^ "地鐵神秘景點".
^ 港鐵公司. "機場快綫列車服務 - 免費服務 - 免費市區預辦登機服務" (in Chinese). 港鐵公司. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
^ "Kowloon Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Kowloon Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 29 March 2015.

External links

Media related to Kowloon Station at Wikimedia Commons

[1] "Hong Kong / Kowloon Station Development – Transport Super City". Fundamentally Hong Kong? Delta Four 1984 - 2044. Venice Biennale (Hong Kong). Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2015.

[2] Leung, Ambrose (12 September 2000). "Dickson CyberExpress, the physical mall of the online luxury shopping portal Dickson Cyber.com, is to be launched on Saturday by Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa". South China Morning Post. p. 2.

[3] Tsang, Denise (2 March 2001). "Dickson in moves to enliven its mall". South China Morning Post.

[4] "Dickson Warehouse at Kowloon Station". Archived from the original on 25 March 2004.

[5] "地鐵神秘景點".

[6] 港鐵公司. "機場快綫列車服務 - 免費服務 - 免費市區預辦登機服務" (in Chinese). 港鐵公司. Retrieved 16 May 2009.

[7] "Kowloon Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 29 March 2015.

[map-8] "Kowloon Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 29 March 2015.

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