Soyosan Station

Soyosan Station

Soyosan Station
Korean name
Hangul 소요산역
Hanja 逍遙山驛
Revised Romanization Soyosan-yeok
McCune-Reischauer Soyosan-yŏk
Line 1
Terminus Dongducheon
Station number 100
Address 126-3 Sangbongam-dong,
2925 Pyeonghwaro,
Dongducheon-si,
Gyeonggi-do
Date opened December 23, 1975
Type Aboveground
Platforms/tracks 2 / 2
Operator Korail

Soyosan Station (Station 100) is a ground-level metro station on Line 1 of the Seoul Subway in Sangbongam Dong, Dongducheon, South Korea. It is named after the nearby Soyosan (587m),[1] a mountain beside the U.S. Army base Camp Casey. It is on this mountain, at the Jajae'am Hermitage, that the Buddhist Saint Wonhyo is said to have reached enlightenment.[2]

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History

The station opened for business on January 11, 1976[3] and the station building was completed on September 21, 1982. This building was closed twenty-four years later, on May 7, 2006 and a temporary building erected in its place. Meanwhile, Line 1 of the Seoul Subway was being extended north through the city of Dongducheon, and Soyosan became its northern terminus, with a new station building completed, on December 15, 2006.[4]

Platform

No. Line Train Bound
1 Gyeongwon Line Seoul Subway Line 1 Dongducheon • Uijeongbu • Cheongnyangni • Incheon
2 Gyeongwon Line Tonggeun Jeongok • Yeoncheon • Sintan-ri • Dongducheon

Passenger Statistics

Line Ridership Ref.
Y2006 Y2007 Y2008 Y2009
Line 1 2226 2830 3079 3219 [5]

Exit

No. Direction Bus
1 Soyosan / Soyo Branch Fire Substation / Soyosan Pleasure Ground / Jayusuhopeyonghwa Museum 36 36-5 37 39 39-1 39-4 39-5 50-5 53 53-1 53-2 53-3 53-5 53-6 53-7 53-8 53-9 54

Photos

Adjacent stations

Preceding station   Seoul Metropolitan Subway   Following station
Terminus Line 1
toward Incheon

References

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