Mong Kok Station

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Mong Kok 旺角

Line Tsuen Wan Kwun Tong Code MOK Service hours 0609/0048 Connections Bus, Minibus

District Yau Tsim Mong Area Mong Kok

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Opened December 31, 1979 Type of station Underground Type of platforms Island No. of platforms 4 No. of exits 14 No. of lifts 2 No. of shops 16

Mong Kok Station
Chinese:	旺角
Literal meaning:	Flourishing Corner
Transliterations Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin: Wàngjiǎo Yue (Cantonese) - Jyutping: wong6 gok3 - Yale Romanization: wong6 gok3

Mong Kok is an MTR station located in the central area of Mong Kok, Kowloon. It is between Prince Edward and Yau Ma Tei stations on the Tsuen Wan Line and Kwun Tong Line. Mong Kok's livery is Dim Red. The initial English name for the station was Argyle, after nearby Argyle Street. However the station was renamed upon the Island Line's opening.

Mong Kok opened on 31 December 1979, originally serving as part of the Kwun Tong Line towards Tsim Sha Tsui and Central. When the Tsuen Wan Line opened in 1982, it took over the original line south of Yau Ma Tei station.

Mong Kok Station serves as a same directional cross-platform interchange between two MTR lines, allowing passengers to change trains either from the Kwun Tong Line trains to southbound Tsuen Wan Line trains towards Central, or vice versa. The Mong Kok East Station is nearly 500 metres to the northeast of the MTR station. More than 200,000 passengers use this station daily.

Contents 1 Station layout 2 Entrances/exits 3 Transport Connections 3.1 Minibus Routes 3.2 Bus Routes 3.3 MTR East Rail Line (Exit B3 or D2) 4 Neighbouring stations 5 External links

[edit] Station layout

G Ground	-	Exits
C Concourse	Concourse	Customer Service, MTRshops
		Vending machines, Automatic teller machines
		Octopus Promotion Machine
P1 Platform	Platform 1	Tsuen Wan Line towards Tsuen Wan
	Island platform, Tsuen Wan Line train doors will open on the right Kwun Tong Line train doors will open on the left
	Platform 3	Kwun Tong Line towards Tiu Keng Leng
P2 Platform	Platform 2	Tsuen Wan Line towards Central
	Island platform, Tsuen Wan Line train doors will open on the left Kwun Tong Line train doors will open on the right
	Platform 4	Kwun Tong Line towards Yau Ma Tei

Passengers from the south of Mong Kok who wish to travel towards East Kowloon (or Tseung Kwan O) can walk across to platform 3 to catch the eastbound Kwun Tong Line train. Passengers from Central or Admiralty are better off if they change to the Tseung Kwan O line at North Point, and change to the Kwun Tong line if necessary if they wish to travel towards any MTR station east of Kowloon Bay.

On the other hand, passengers from East Kowloon who want to travel towards Hong Kong Island can walk across to platform 2 to transfer to the southbound Tsuen Wan Line train.

[edit] Entrances/exits

Mongkok MTR Station has 11 exits, the majority of which are set up in road intersections all clustered within one block of the intersection of Argyle Road and Nathan Road. Langham Place, a major shopping mall is accessed through a short underground passage at Exit C3.

[edit] Transport Connections

[edit] Minibus Routes To Lok Mun Sun Chuen: 27M (Exit B2) To Open University of Hong Kong: 27M, 28M (Exit B2) To Waterloo Hill: 5M (Exit D3) To Wai Hang Cheong Sun Chuen: 28M (Exit B2)

[edit] Bus Routes To Chun Seen Mei Chuen: 9 (Exit D2) To Kowloon Hospital: 13D (Exit D2) To Ho Man Tin Estate: 18, 41, 45 (Exit B2)

[edit] MTR East Rail Line (Exit B3 or D2)

Mong Kok East Station and Mong Kok Station are considerably far apart. To reach the Mong Kok East Station, commuters would need to get out through Exit D2, walk along Argyle Street until they reach the viaduct, and then walk up to Grand Century Plaza where they may enter the Station.

Passengers could also use Exit B3, and walk along the footbridge above Mong Kok Road and Sai Yee Street to Grand Century Plaza. The entrance for Mong Kok East station is located in the shopping mall. This route is well-covered and away from the crowded Argyle Street route, which is always congested with vehicles and people.

[edit] Neighbouring stations

Preceding station		MTR		Following station
Yau Ma Tei towards Central		Tsuen Wan Line		Prince Edward towards Tsuen Wan
Yau Ma Tei Terminus		Kwun Tong Line		Prince Edward towards Tiu Keng Leng

[edit] External links

• Mong Kok Station New Integrated Entrance C3

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Coordinates: 22°19′10.2″N, 114°10′10.2″E