Prince Edward station

This article is about the metro station of the Hong Kong MTR. For the metro station of the Singapore MRT, see Prince Edward MRT Station.

Prince Edward station
Platforms 4 (foreground) and 3 (background)
General information
Line(s)	Kwun Tong
Connections	Bus, public light bus, Mainland coach
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Platform levels	2
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	PRE
Services
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Prince Edward station
Chinese	太子
Literal meaning	Prince
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Tàizǐ Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization taai3 ji2 Jyutping taai3 zi2

Prince Edward is a station of the MTR rapid transit system in Hong Kong. It is located in Northern Mong Kok, Kowloon, under the intersection of Nathan Road and Prince Edward Road West. The station is named after this road. The station's livery is pale purple.

History

As Prince Edward was primarily designed as a cross-platform interchange between the Kwun Tong and Tsuen Wan lines, although the Kwun Tong Line tracks had already been laid in 1979, the station was not used until the opening of the Tsuen Wan Line on 10 May 1982. During the first week of operation, the station served only as an interchange with no exits to the concourse or street level.

Location

Prince Edward Station and Mong Kok Station are the two closest stations in Hong Kong. They are only about 400 metres apart and the train takes less than one minute to travel from one station to the other.

Station layout

Prince Edward is an opposite-directional cross-platform interchange station for southbound Kwun Tong Line passengers going towards Tsuen Wan and southbound Tsuen Wan Line passengers going towards Tiu Keng Leng. Mong Kok serves as the cross-platform interchange station for passengers travelling in the same direction.

G Ground	-	Exits
C Concourse	Concourse	Customer Service, MTRshops
		Vending machines, Automatic teller machines
		Octopus Promotion Machine
P1 Platform	Platform 1	→ Template:HK-MTR box towards Tsuen Wan (Sham Shui Po) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	← Template:HK-MTR box towards Yau Ma Tei (Mong Kok)
P2 Platform	Platform 4	← Template:HK-MTR box towards Central (Mong Kok)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Platform 3	→ Template:HK-MTR box towards Tiu Keng Leng (Shek Kip Mei) →

Entrances and exits

All exits are within one block of Nathan Road, stretching from Prince Edward Road in the south to Playing Field Road in the north. Prince Edward Station is primarily an interchange rather than a destination since there are only seven exits; neighbouring Mong Kok has fourteen.

Transport connections

Cross-border bus services

There are stops of cross-border buses to Shenzhen, Dongguan, and Guangzhou on Playing Field Road (exit A) or Portland Street (exits C2 and D).

See also

• Prince Edward, Hong Kong