Tai Koo Station

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Tai Koo 太古

Tai Koo Station

Line Island Code TAK Service hours 0602 / 0112 Connections minibus, bus

District Eastern Area Quarry Bay

Maps MTR Website Centamap

Opened May 31, 1985 Type of station underground Type of platforms island No. of platforms 2 No. of exits 9 No. of escalators 28 No. of lifts 3 No. of shops 13

Tai Koo Station
Chinese:	太古
Literal meaning:	Archean
Transliterations Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin: Tàigǔ Yue (Cantonese) - Jyutping: taai3 ku2 - IPA: tʰaɪ33 ku35 - Yale Romanization: taai gú

Tai Koo is an underground station on the MTR Island Line on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. The livery is crimson.

It serves areas in the vicinity of Kornhill, Kornhill Gardens, Taikoo Shing and Nam Fung Sun Chuen in Quarry Bay. The station is one of the busiest stations in the system.

Contents 1 Station layout 2 Shops 3 Entrances/exits 4 Transport connections 4.1 Minibus 4.2 Bus 5 Neighbouring stations

[edit] Station layout

G Ground	-	Exits
C Concourse	Concourse	Customer Service, MTRShops
		Vending machines, ATM
		Octopus promotion machine
P Platform	Platform 1	Island Line towards Chai Wan
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	Island Line towards Sheung Wan

Platforms 1 and 2 share the same island platform.

[edit] Shops

• 7-Eleven
• Bank of China (Hong Kong)'s ATMs
• Circle K Mini-store
• Hang Seng Bank (with ATMs)
• Maxim's Cakes
• Mrs. Fields Cookies
• Okashi Land
• Saint Honore Cake Shop

• An automatic photo machine (Max Sight Photo-Me)
• 2 vending machines (Swire Coca-Cola)

[edit] Entrances/exits

• A1:  Kornhill Gardens (Blocks 1 to 4)
• A2:  Kornhill Plaza (North)
• B:    Kornhill (Blocks N to R), Nam Fung Sun Chuen, MT. Parker Lodge, Kornville.
• C:    Kornhill (Blocks A to M), Jusco, Kornhill Plaza South
• D1:  Cityplaza (G/F)
• D2:  Taikoo Shing Road
• E1: Cityplaza (2/F)
• E2: Kornhill Gardens (Blocks 5 and 6)
• E3: Kornhill Gardens (Blocks 7 to 10)

[edit] Transport connections

[edit] Minibus

To Kornhill

• 33M (at exit C)

To Mount Parker Lodge

• 32A (at exit B, E2 or E3)

[edit] Bus

To Tsz Wan Shan (Central)

• 116 (at exit B)

[edit] Neighbouring stations

Preceding station		MTR		Following station
Quarry Bay towards Sheung Wan		Island Line		Sai Wan Ho towards Chai Wan

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