Linkou () is a station on the

Taoyuan International Airport MRT Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport MRT (Mass Rapid Transit), commonly known as the Airport MRT, is a rapid transit line of Taoyuan Metro that connects the municipalities of Taipei, New Taipei, and Taoyuan with Taoyuan International Airport. T ...

located in

Linkou District Linkou District () is a district in the northwestern part of New Taipei City in northern Taiwan. The name "Linkou" translates to "forest mouth"; in fact, for much of its history, Linkou remained a relatively rural and undeveloped district. This ...

New Taipei New Taipei City is a Special municipality (Taiwan), special municipality located in northern Taiwan. The city is home to an estimated population of 3,974,683 as of 2022, making it the most populous city of Taiwan, and also the second largest s ...

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 ...

. The station opened for commercial service on 2 March 2017.

Station overview

This elevated station has 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 and four tracks (for Express Trains to pass through), is only station thought entire Airport MRT line with this type of track layout. The station is long and wide. It opened for trial service on 2 February 2017, and for commercial service 2 March 2017. The station is located on the

side of

Linkou Plateau The Linkou Plateau () is a plateau located along the southwest side of the Tamsui River, between Linkou District, New Taipei and Guishan District, Taoyuan, in northern Taiwan. It borders the Taipei Basin in the east, the Taoyuan Plateau in the so ...

, near the border with Taoyuan. Both adjacent stations are in Taoyuan. Land nearby the station was developed as a joint development project between government and private enterprises. The project construction of a 16-story incorporating residential, commercial, hotel, and public transportation functions. The project covered an area of .

History

* 2017-03-02: The station opened for commercial service with the opening of the Taipei-Huanbei section of the Airport MRT.

Station layout

Exits

*Exit 1: Northwest side of intersection of Wenhua 3rd Rd and Bade Rd.

Around the station

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(Linkou Branch) *

Hsing Wu University Hsing Wu University (HWU; ) is a private university located in Linkou District, New Taipei, Taiwan. History HWU was originally established in 1965. It was upgraded to Hsing Wu College in 2000 and to Hsing Wu University in 2012. President Acad ...

National Taiwan Normal University National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU; ), or ''Shīdà'' is an institution of higher education and normal school operating out of three campuses in Taipei, Taiwan. NTNU is the leading research institute in such disciplines as Education and Lin ...

- Linkou Campus *

New Taipei Municipal Lin-kou High School New Taipei Municipal Lin-kou Senior High School (LKSH; ), previously National Linkou High School (), is a high school in Linkou District, New Taipei, Taiwan. History On April 24, 1995, the preliminary offices of the school (then planned as th ...

Hsing Wu High School The New Taipei Municipal Hsing Wu High School () is a secondary school in Linkou District, New Taipei, Taiwan. History Ku Huai-tsu () founded the school in 1963. The school's first class had 113 students. The school was fully established in 1969 ...

* Linkou Zhulinshan Temple (林口竹林山寺)

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