Kowloon Station

Kowloon
九龍

Kowloon Station at Tung Chung Line Platform Level.

Line      Tung Chung Line
     Airport Express
Code KOW
Service hours 0604/0107
Connections Bus, Minibus
District Yau Tsim Mong
Area West Kowloon/Tsim Sha Tsui
Map MTR Website
Coordinates
Opened June 22, 1998
Type of station Underground
Type of platforms Side (Airport Express) / Island (Tung Chung Line)
No. of platforms 4
No. of exits 6
No. of lifts 8
No. of shops 5

Station location

Kowloon Station
Traditional Chinese 九龍
Simplified Chinese 九龙

Kowloon is a station on the Tung Chung Line and the Airport Express of Hong Kong's MTR. Only about 10,000 passengers use this station daily due to its inconvenient location west of the heart of Kowloon, making it one of the least used stations in the MTR system.

This station provides an in-town check-in service for flights departing Hong Kong International Airport and free shuttle bus services to most major hotels in the Tsim Sha Tsui and Yau Ma Tei areas. The station is located less than a kilometre west of Jordan Station on the Tsuen Wan Line.

People can access the shopping mall Elements directly by using the escalators linking the station concourse and the mall.

Contents

Station layout

U5
Residential and
Commercial area
Exits, Union Square, The Waterfront, Sorrento
The HarbourSide, The Arch, International Commerce Centre, The Cullinan
U4
Tung Chung Line
concourse
Exit, Elements Mall
U3 Airport Express
concourse
Exit, Elements Mall
Tung Chung Line
concourse
Exit, Elements Mall, Escalator to U5
G
Ground
Airport Express
check-in
Customer service, drop-off area, in-town check-in, left luggage
MTRshops, vending machines, toilets, police post
Tung Chung Line
concourse
Exits, customer service, car park, toilet
Airport Express shuttle bus, public transport interchange
MTRshops, Hang Seng Bank, automatic teller machines
L2
Platforms
Airport Express
concourse
Customer service, drop-off area, toilets
Side platform, doors will open on the left
Platform 1      Airport Express towards Airport and AsiaWorld-Expo
Platform 2      Airport Express towards Hong Kong
Side platform, doors will open on the left
Airport Express
concourse
Customer service, taxi stand, MTRshops, toilets
L4
Platforms
Platform 3      Tung Chung Line towards Tung Chung and Disneyland Resort Line
Island platforms, doors will open on the right
Platform 4      Tung Chung Line towards Hong Kong

As with other Airport Express stations, the Airport Express and Tung Chung line are separated by different concourses and different levels. Platform 2 is only used to allow travellers coming from the Hong Kong International Airport to alight except when you buy a Morning Express Ticket to Hong Kong and use Platform 2 on Mondays to Saturdays.

Entrances/Exits

There are 6 exits in Kowloon Station. They are exits A, B, C1, C2, D1 and D2. Exit D1 and D2 is to the apartment buildings Sorrento, The Waterfront, The Arch and The Harbourside. Disabled access is available at Exit B.

Airport Express In-town Check In(G)
Tung Chung Line Concourse(G)

Transport connections

Bus routes

The following bus routes terminate at the Kowloon Railway Station Bus Terminus. To reach the terminus, one must use the exits to the Elements and follow the signs in the mall. Since the opening of the Elements, the route from Exit A is reserved for the car park only.

Route Destination Notes
8 Tsim Sha Tsui Star Ferry via Ho Man Tin & Hung Hom
11 Diamond Hill Station via To Kwa Wan & Lower Wong Tai Sin Estate
110 Shau Kei Wan via Tsim Sha Tsui, Causeway Bay, North Point, Yiu Tung Estate
203E Choi Hung via Mong Kok, Kowloon City, Wong Tai Sin, Fu Shan
215X Lam Tin (Kwong Tin Estate) via Tsim Sha Tsui, Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon Bay, Kwun Tong
259B Tuen Muen Pier Head Limited service: Monday through Saturday with departures at 17:40, 18:00, and 18:20 only
270A Sheung Shui via Jordan, Mong Kok, Kowloon City West, Kowloon Tong, Fanling
281A Kwong Yuen via Tsim Sha Tsui, Jordan, Mong Kok, Prince Edward, Kowloon Tong
296D Sheung Tak via Tsim Sha Tsui, Jordan, Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon Bay

Jordan (To Wah Road) Bus Terminus, which hosts bus routes to different parts of Kowloon and New Territories, is also located near the Station. People can reach the terminus by a short five minute walk from Kowloon Railway Station Bus Terminus.

Cross harbour buses (Exit D2)

Kowloon Station is located in proximity to the Kowloon toll plaza of the Western Harbour Tunnel. There, you can find bus stops with routes that go towards different parts of Kowloon and the New Territories. The bus stop can be reached through Exit D2 and then by walking across a footbridge above the toll plaza. Commuters can also get onto the buses that lead to Hong Kong Island.

Minibus routes

Several minibus routes terminate at the Kowloon Railway Station Terminus, which is same as the bus routes.

Route Destination Notes
26 To Kwa Wan (Chi Kiang Street) via Jordan & Hung Hom
74 Mong Kok East Station Circular route
77M East Tsim Sha Tsui Station via Tsim Sha Tsui
One can receive a $1.00 discount on the second journey if he transfers from or to MTR.

History

In construction stages of this station, the station was named West Kowloon Station (Chinese: 西九龍站).

As this station was proposed as the terminus of the unbuilt East Kowloon Line, there is a reserved confined space under the Tung Chung Line platform. The space is not used due to the alignment was changed and the Kowloon Point (to the south-east of the station) Reclamation Scheme was shelved.

Apart from this station, people can also walk to Austin Station to take the West Rail Line trains. In the future, when the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link completes, passengers can walk to the West Kowloon Terminus, the terminus of the rail link, to take the rail link.

Neighbouring stations

Preceding station   MTR   Following station
Airport Express
Terminus
towards Tung Chung
Tung Chung Line