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, New Taipei in Taiwan, operated by the State-owned enterprise, government-owned Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation ...

Gangqian station is located in the

Neihu District Neihu District is a district of Taipei City, Taiwan. Neihu means "inner lake." The older name originates from the Ketagalan word ''Tayour'' (transliterated by the Dutch as ''Cattajo''), meaning woman's head ornament. Many mountainous roads and ...

Taipei Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the n ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

. 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, two exits, and platform elevators located on the north and south sides of the concourse level. Public art for the station is situated on the wall above the escalators. The piece, titled "The Paradise of Neihu", is a large-scale mixed media artwork consisting of

needlepoint Needlepoint is a type of canvas work, a form of embroidery in which yarn is stitched through a stiff open weave canvas. Traditionally needlepoint designs completely cover the canvas. Although needlepoint may be worked in a variety of stitches, m ...

created with the help of 83 artists and volunteers.

History

*22 February 2009: Gangqian station construction is completed. *4 July 2009: Begins service with the opening of Brown Line.

Station layout

Gallery

File:"The Beauty of Neihu" at Taipei Metro Gangqian Station.jpg, Gangqian station public art "The Beauty of Neihu" File:Gangqian Station platform.jpg, Gangqian station platform 1 (to Taipei Zoo) File:港墘站IMG 3113.JPG, Gangqian station gateway 1

Nearby Places

* Guanshan Riverside Park * Neihu Technology Park *

Taipei Municipal Nei-Hu Vocational High School The Taipei Municipal Nei-Hu Vocational High School (), formerly ''Taipei Municipal Nei-Hu Industrial High School'', abbreviated as NIHS (內湖高工) is a public 3-year high school in Neihu District, Taipei, Taiwan. Departments *Department of ...

* Neihu Community College * Taipei Flower Market * Lishan Elementary School * Lishan Junior High School * Lishan High School * Neihu Sports Center

References

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