East Tsim Sha Tsui Station

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East Tsim Sha Tsui 尖東

East Tsim Sha Tsui station

Line East Rail Line Code ETS Service hours 0528/0023

District Yau Tsim Mong Area Tsim Sha Tsui East

Map MTR Website

Opened October 24, 2004 Type of station Underground Type of platforms Island No. of platforms 2 No. of exits 6 No. of shops 3

Multilingual greetings referring to "Welcome to KCR" (now out-of-date--MTR took over KCR in December 2007).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 (尖東站) is a former KCR station now serving the MTR as the southern terminus of the East Rail Line. East Tsim Sha Tsui Station is the second newest station (behind Lok Ma Chau Station) on the MTR system. It opened on 24 October 2004, symbolising the return of the East Rail Line to Tsim Sha Tsui after 30 years. The project was known as the "East Rail Tsim Sha Tsui Extension". The line was extended from Hung Hom, the previous terminus, to Signal Hill, where the new station is located, through a tunnel beneath Salisbury Road.

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).

The current status of East Tsim Sha Tsui Station as a terminus station is only temporary. When the West Rail Line is extended through the Kowloon Southern Link, the terminus of the East Rail Line will be relocated back to Hung Hom, with East Tsim Sha Tsui becoming an intermediate station on the West Rail Line.

Due to inadequacy of space on display screens, the full name "East Tsim Sha Tsui" is not shown on platform information displays nor on trains heading to the station. Instead, the abbreviations, "E. TST" and "E. Tsimshatsui", are used respectively.

[edit] Station layout

Passengers heading towards the Tsuen Wan Line should ride the escalator up to the concourse, and leave the East 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.

[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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