East Tsim Sha Tsui Station

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East Tsim Sha Tsui 尖東

East Tsim Sha Tsui Station platform

Line West Rail Code ETS Service hours 0554-0049

District Yau Tsim Mong Area Tsim Sha Tsui Map MTR Website Coordinates 22°17′44″N 114°10′31″E / 22.295472°N 114.175367°E / 22.295472; 114.175367Coordinates: 22°17′44″N 114°10′31″E / 22.295472°N 114.175367°E / 22.295472; 114.175367

Opened October 24, 2004 Type of station Underground Type of platforms Island No. of platforms 2 No. of exits 11

Station location

Multilingual greetings referring to "Welcome to KCR" (now out-of-date--MTR took over KCR in December 2007). (From the top: French, Japanese, Spanish and Korean)

Concourse of East Tsim Sha Tsui Station

East Tsim Sha Tsui Station (Chinese: 尖東站) is a station in the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) system of Hong Kong. It is currently an intermediate station on the West Rail Line.

The station was built to alleviate surface traffic jams and passenger congestion at Kowloon Tong Station. The distance from Hung Hom to the station is about one kilometre with the journey time of less than two minutes. However, the fares are unusually high (e.g., from Sha Tin, the fare to Hung Hom is only HK$4.90, but the fare to the East Tsim Sha Tsui station is HK$7.40, pre-merger $5.10 and $7.60 respectively).

This station is linked with Tsim Sha Tsui Station of the Tsuen Wan Line by subways (underground pedestrian tunnels).

[edit] History

East Tsim Sha Tsui station was opened on 24th October 2004 as a southward extension of the East Rail Line from Hung Hom Station, and served as the southern terminus of the East Rail Line until 16th August 2009.

The predecessor of the East Rail Line is the Kowloon-Canton Railway (British Section), which was opened in 1910. At the time of opening, its southern terminus was the old Kowloon Station located in Tsim Sha Tsui, where the Clock Tower stands today. However, the old Kowloon Station in Tsim Sha Tsui was demolished in 1974, and the southern terminus of the railway was relocated to a newly-built station in Hung Hom. Therefore, the 2004 southward extension from Hung Hom Station to East Tsim Sha Tsui Station symbolised the return of the railway to the Tsim Sha Tsui area after 30 years.

The status of East Tsim Sha Tsui Station as the southern terminus of the East Rail Line was intended to be a temporary arrangement only. Upon the opening of the Kowloon Southern Link on 16th August 2009, the East Rail Line terminates at Hung Hom Station to the south, and the tracks between Hung Hom Station and East Tsim Sha Tsui Station became part of the West Rail Line. As a result, Hung Hom Station is now the common southern terminus of (and an interchange station for) the East Rail Line and the West Rail Line, whilst East Tsim Sha Tsui Station is now an intermediate station on the West Rail Line.

[edit] Station layout

Passengers heading towards the Tsuen Wan Line should ride the escalator up to the concourse, and leave the West Rail Line system. Then they have to walk along the Middle Road or Mody Road subway system respectively to reach Tsim Sha Tsui station at exit L2 and M3 respectively.

Although the stations are connected by subway, the fare gates for East Tsim Sha Tsui and Tsim Sha Tsui Stations are separated. Single journey ticket passengers transferring from the West Rail Line to the Tsuen Wan Line must purchase a second ticket at Tsim Sha Tsui Station. Octopus card users who transfer between East Tsim Sha Tsui and Tsim Sha Tsui Stations within thirty minutes without making any other transport related purchases or more than nine non-transport related purchases in between stations are considered to have taken a single journey and are charged accordingly.

[edit] Entrances/exits

East Tsim Sha Tsui Station is linked with Tsim Sha Tsui Station through the Mody Road and Middle Road Subways. When both stations' exits are combined, the total number of exits outnumber even that of Central. East Tsim Sha Tsui Station has the exit with the highest letter of all rail stations in Hong Kong.

[edit] In Tsim Sha Tsui Station

• A1: Nathan Road (by Kowloon Mosque)
• A2: Humphrey's Avenue
• B1: Nathan Road/Cameron Road Junction
• B2: Cameron Road
• C1: Hyatt Regency Hong Kong (South Exit)
• C2: Hyatt Regency Hong Kong (North Exit)
• D1: Nathan Road (by Number 58)
• D2: Bristol Avenue
• E: Kowloon Hotel
• F: Middle Road Subway (Connected to Exit L2)
• G: Mody Road Subway (Connected to Exit M3)

[edit] In East Tsim Sha Tsui Station

• J: New World Centre
• K: Middle Road
• L1: Hermes House
• L2: (Connected to Exit F)
• L3: Peninsula Hotel
• L4: Kowloon Hotel
• M2: Holiday Inn Golden Mile
• M3: (Connected to Exit G)
• N1/N2: Hanoi Road
• P1: Wing On Plaza
• P2: Mirror Tower
• P3: Chatham Road South

[edit] Neighbouring stations

[edit] See also

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• Tsim Sha Tsui, the neighborhood
• Tsim Sha Tsui Station, a nearby MTR station