Mong Kok East station – formerly Mong Kok railway station and Yaumati () – is a station on

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's . Only out-of-system interchange is available with and at Mong Kok station via a

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. The station is connected to

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, a large

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. The station is within walking distance of Mong Kok station, but there are no direct paths linking the stations; passengers wishing to transfer between the stations must use above-ground roads or transfer at .

History

The station, initially named Yaumati, was constructed on 1 October 1910 to cope with the opening of the British Section of

Kowloon–Canton Railway The Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR; ) was a railway network in Hong Kong.Legislative Council information paper CB(1)357/07-08(0 THB(T) CR 8/986/00, CB(1)1749/07-08(0/ref> It was owned and operated by the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC ...

. The station was later renamed Mong Kok on 31 December 1968 on the grounds that the station was actually in Mong Kok District. In 1983, the station was rebuilt. A temporary station was in use just to the south (towards Hung Hom) during reconstruction. After the takeover of KCR operations by the

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