Kowloon is a

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on the and the of Hong Kong's

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. It is one of the two Airport Express stations providing in-town check-in services for passengers departing from

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and free shuttle bus services to most major hotels in the

Tsim Sha Tsui Tsim Sha Tsui, often abbreviated as TST, is an urban area in southern Kowloon, Hong Kong. The area is administratively part of the Yau Tsim Mong District. Tsim Sha Tsui East is a piece of land reclaimed from the Hung Hom Bay now east of Ts ...

and

Yau Ma Tei Yau Ma Tei is an area in the Yau Tsim Mong District in the south of the Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong. Name ''Yau Ma Tei'' is a phonetic transliteration of the name (originally written as ) in Cantonese. It can also be spelt as Yaumatei, ...

areas. The station is located less than two hundred meters west of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link Hong Kong section West Kowloon Terminus, five hundred meters west of on the and a kilometre west of Jordan station on the . Escalators link

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directly with the station concourse.

History

The station was designed by

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. During the planning stage, it was called West Kowloon station (). On 16 September 2000, the new shopping mall "Dickson CyberExpress" () was opened by Dickson Poon. The size was spread over four levels of the station with six shopping areas. However, the mall did not have the expected volume of customers and business was weak. After half a year, the mall shrank in size. The mall's management company planned to decrease the level of the mall from 4 levels to 3 levels and to combine some of the shopping areas. Business remained poor due to sparse population near the station and a recession at that time. The mall finally closed its operation in 2005. The station was proposed as the terminus of the unbuilt East Kowloon line; the proposal indicated using a reserved confined space under the Tung Chung line platforms. The station is connected via footbridges to on the Tuen Ma line. The station is connected to West Kowloon Terminus of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link Hong Kong section.

Station layout

As in other Airport Express stations, the Airport Express and the Tung Chung line have separated paid areas. Platform 2 is only used for disembarking passengers from

or , except during morning rush hours from Monday to Saturday for boarding passengers traveling on the line to Hong Kong station with a Morning Express Ticket.

Entrances and exits

; Tung Chung line Concourse (G) *A - Station Car Park *B - Airport Express Shuttle Bus *C and D - Elements mall **C1 - Public transport interchange, Cross Boundary Coach Terminus, Elements, International Commerce Centre **C2 -

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, The Arch, The Harbourside,

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**D1 - Elements mall **D2 - Sorrento, International Commerce Centre, The Arch, The Harbourside, The Waterfront ; Airport Express In-town Check In (G) *E1-E5 - West Kowloon Cultural District, West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, Western Harbour Crossing bus stops

References

External links

* {{Airport Express navbox MTR stations in Kowloon Airport Express (MTR) Tung Chung line Railway stations in Hong Kong opened in 1998 Terry Farrell buildings