Kowloon Tong station

Kowloon Tong 九龍塘
MTR rapid transit station
Platform 1 (East Rail Line)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	九龍塘
Simplified Chinese	九龙塘
Literal meaning	Pond of nine dragons
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiǔlóng Táng Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization gau2 lung4 tong4 IPA [kɐ̌ulʊ̏ŋ tʰɔ̏ːŋ] Jyutping gau2 lung4 tong4
General information
Location	Suffolk Road × To Fuk Road, Kowloon Tong Kowloon City District, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°20′13″N 114°10′34″E
Owned by	MTR Corporation (Kwun Tong Line); Kowloon–Canton Railway Corporation (East Rail Line)
Operated by	MTR Corporation
Line(s)	Template:HK-MTR box
Platforms	4 (1 island platform (Kwun Tong Line) and 2 side platforms (East Rail Line))
Connections	Bus, public light bus
Construction
Structure type	Underground (Kwun Tong Line); at-grade (East Rail Line)
Platform levels	2
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	1 October 1979 (1979-10) (Kwun Tong Line) 4 May 1982 (1982-05-04) (East Rail Line)
Electrified	1983 (East Rail Line)
Services
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Location Kowloon Tong Location within the MTR system

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Kowloon Tong (Chinese: 九龍塘) is a station on MTR's Kwun Tong Line and East Rail Line in New Kowloon, Hong Kong. The station serves Kowloon Tong and its vicinity, including Yau Yat Tsuen, the Festival Walk shopping centre, City University of Hong Kong and 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. The load of Kowloon Tong station was heavily reduced, when a new interchange station was built at Tsim Sha Tsui/East Tsim Sha Tsui. It is because, prior to the commissioning of the KCR East Rail extension to East Tsim Sha Tsui station, Kowloon Tong station was the only station offering such interchange to passengers.

A new concourse for East Rail Line was opened on 15 April 2004 to increase its capacity.

On 28 September 2008, turnstiles separating the respective concourse of Kwun Tong Line and East Rail Line were removed.

Station layout

Kwun Tong Line concourse

Kwun Tong Line platforms

decorations in East Rail Line platforms

East Rail Line platforms

There is a reserved space for a track connecting the East Rail Line and the Kwun Tong Line in the westbound tunnel just outside Kowloon Tong station towards Shek Kip Mei. The space was originally designed to allow Metro-Cammells to be transferred to the Kwun Tong Line when they were unloaded at Hung Hom, but the track was never built as the MTR decided to use lorries to carry all of its train carriages to the Kowloon Bay Depot.

Note that the platforms for both the East Rail Line and the Kwun Tong Line are called platforms 1 and 2.

U	Overlying Buildings	Education Bureau Kowloon Education Service Centre
Footbridge	East Rail Line platforms	footbridge connecting East Rail Line platforms, Festival Walk, Suffolk Road
G Platforms (Ground)	Exit H	Exit, customer service, MTR Shops
	Side platform, doors will open on the left
	Platform 1	→ Template:HK-MTR box towards Lo Wu or Lok Ma Chau (Tai Wai) →
	Platform 2	← Template:HK-MTR box towards Hung Hom (Mong Kok East)
	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	East Rail Line Northern 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 Southern concourse	Customer service, toilets, MTR Shops
		Automatic teller machines
Platforms	Platform 1	→ Template:HK-MTR box towards Tiu Keng Leng (Lok Fu) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	← Template:HK-MTR box towards Whampoa (Shek Kip Mei)

Entrances and exits

A pedestrian walkway connects the station with Festival Walk, a major shopping centre.

Kwun Tong Line concourse

• A1: Suffolk Road
• A2: Hong Kong Baptist Hospital/Hong Kong Baptist University
• B: Suffolk Road
• C1: Hong Kong Productivity Council
• C2: Festival Walk/City University of Hong Kong
• E: EDB Education Services Centre

East Rail Line southern concourse

• D: Public Transport Interchange

East Rail Line northern concourse

• F: Kent Road

East Rail Line platform 2 (ground level)

• G1: To Fuk Road
• G2: Festival Walk

East Rail Line platform 1 (ground level)

• H: Hong Kong Productivity Council

Exit H is also accessible from the East Rail Line northern concourse. It is possible to walk between Exit A and E in the vicinity of the station without entering the paid area. The same goes for Exit B, C, F and H.

Transport connections

Minibus Routes

To Academic Community Hall/Broadcast Drive/Baptist University:

• 29A

To Beacon Hill:

• 29B

To Kowloon City:

• 25M

To Baptist University:

• 25MS

To World Wide Gardens:

• 61M

Kowloon Tong Railway Station Bus Terminus (Exits B, E)

To Hin King Estate/ Sun Tin Wai Estate:

• 281M

To Sui Wo Court:

• 80M