Kowloon Tong Station

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Kowloon Tong 九龍塘

Kuwn Tong Line platform

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

District Kowloon City Area Kowloon Tong

Map MTR Website

Opened October 1, 1979 (Kwun Tong Line) / May 4, 1982 (East Rail Line) Type of station Underground/Ground Level Type of platforms Island/Side No. of platforms 4 No. of exits 10 No. of escalators 24 No. of lifts 7

Kowloon Tong Station
Traditional Chinese:	九龍塘
Simplified Chinese:	九龙塘
Transliterations Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin: Jiǔlóng Táng Yue (Cantonese) - Jyutping: gau2 lung4 tong4 - IPA: /kɐʊ35 ləʊŋ11 tʰɔŋ11/ - 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.

Contents 1 Station layout 2 Entrances/Exits 3 Transport Connections 3.1 Minibus Routes 3.2 Kowloon Tong MTR Station Bus Terminus (Exits A1 or B2) 4 Neighbouring stations

[edit] Station layout

U	Overlying Buildings	Education Bureau Kowloon Education Service Centre
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 and Lok Ma Chau
	Platform 2	East Rail Line towards East Tsim Sha Tsui
	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 north 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 south 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

If one carefully looks out from the while moving towards the direction of Shek Kip Mei, there is a reserved space for a track connecting the East Rail Line and the Kwun Tong Line. This 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.

[edit] Entrances/Exits

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

• A1: Suffolk Road (Bus Terminus)
• A2: Suffolk Road (Minibus Stop)
• B: Suffolk Road (Bus Terminus)
• C1/C2: Festival Walk (Exits C1 and C2)
• D: Southern Concourse of East Rail Line
• E: Kowloon Tong Education and Manpower Bureau Center
• F: Kent Road
• G: To Fuk Road
• H: City University of Hong Kong

[edit] Transport Connections

[edit] 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)

[edit] Kowloon Tong MTR 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

[edit] Neighbouring stations

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 East Tsim Sha Tsui		East Rail Line		Tai Wai towards Lo Wu or Lok Ma Chau

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Coordinates: 22°20′13.56″N, 114°10′37.92″E