Traditional Chinese 九龍 Hanyu Pinyin IPA [kɐ̌ulʊ̏ŋ] Address Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong | Simplified Chinese 九龙 Yale Romanization gau2 lung4 Jyutping gau2 lung4 Opened 21 June 1998 | |
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Similar Airport Station, Hong Kong Station, Tsing Yi Station, Elements - Hong Kong, Austin Station | ||
Kowloon (Chinese: 九龍) is a station on the Tung Chung Line and the Airport Express of Hong Kong's MTR. The station provides in-town check-in service for passengers departing from the Hong Kong International Airport and free shuttle bus services to most major hotels in the Tsim Sha Tsui and Yau Ma Tei areas.
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The station is located less than 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. During the planning stage, it was called West Kowloon Station (Chinese: 西九龍站).
On 16 September 2000, the new shopping mall "Dickson CyberExpress" (Chinese: 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. However, the mall did not have the expected volume of customers and business was weak. After half a year, the mall shrank its size. The mall management company planned to decrease the level of the mall from 4 levels to 3 levels and to combine some of the shopping areas. Business remained poor due to sparse population near the station and a recession at that time. The mall finally closed its operation in 2005.
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.
The station is connected via footbridges to Austin Station on the West Rail Line. In the future, the station will be 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 for alighting passengers from Hong Kong International Airport only, except during morning hours from Monday to Saturday for boarding passengers traveling on the line to Hong Kong Station using a Morning Express Ticket.
Entrances and exits
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 mall and follow the signs in the mall. Since the opening of Elements, the route from Exit A is reserved for the car park only.
Jordan (To Wah Road) Bus Terminus, which hosts bus routes to different parts of Kowloon and New Territories, is also located near the station. People can reach the terminus by a short five-minute walk from Kowloon Railway Station Bus Terminus.