The Taipei Metro Donghu station is located in the

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. It is a station on

Wenhu line The Wenhu or Brown line (code BR) is a metro line in Taipei operated by Taipei Metro, named after the districts it connects: Wenshan and Neihu. It is an automated medium-capacity rubber-tyred metro line and is long, serving a total of 24 st ...

Station overview

This three-level, elevated station features two

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...

s, three exits, and a platform elevator located on the north side of the concourse level. It is located on Kangning Road, Sec. 3. The station is 83 meters long and 21.5 meters wide, while the platform is 93.5 meters long. Because of the station needed to go over the Wufen Road footbridge, the station height is 20 meters (the equivalent of a six-story building). It has thus been called the "Zenith Station" and is the highest station on the Taipei Metro.

Design

The station design theme is "Music". Surface designs in the station square represent a dancing musical staff. Silk fabric is printed on enamel slab art walls at the concourse level to represent romantic urban music. Located next to the entrance, public art for the station is titled "The Rippling Lake". Porcelain and celadon are used to create ripples on the art piece.

History

*December 2007: Station structure reaches completion. *22 February 2009: Donghu station construction is completed. *4 July 2009: Begins service with the opening of Brown Line. *The station is a planned transfer for the

Minsheng–Xizhi line The Minsheng–Xizhi or the Sky Blue line (Code: SB) of Taipei Metro is a planned line on the Taipei Metro Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT), branded as Metro Taipei, is a rapid transit system serving the areas of Taipei and New Taipei City, ...

Station layout

Around the station

*Ankang Park *Nanhu Senior High School *Minghu Junior High School *Nanhu Elementary School *Minghu Elementary School *Donghu Elementary School *Taipei Public Library, Donghu Branch *Donghu Police Station *Donghu Fire Department *Halar Cinemas

References

Wenhu line stations Railway stations opened in 2009 {{Taiwan-metro-stub