Guting (, formerly transliterated as Kuting Station until 2003) is a metro station in
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 ...
, Taiwan served by
Taipei Metro
Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT), branded as Metro Taipei, is a rapid transit system serving the areas of Taipei and New Taipei in Taiwan, operated by the government-owned Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation, which also operates the Maokong Gondo ...
. The defunct
Hsintien line also had a station of the same name. However, its location is not the same as the current station.
Station overview
The station is a three-level, underground structure with two
island platform
An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...
s and nine exits. The two platforms are stacked, allowing for
cross-platform interchange
A cross-platform interchange is a type of interchange between different lines at a metro (or other railway) station. The term originates with the London Underground; such layouts exist in other networks but are not commonly so named. In the U ...
between the
Songshan–Xindian line
The Songshan–Xindian or Green line (code G) is a metro line in Taipei operated by Taipei Metro, named after the districts it connects: Songshan and Xindian. Parts of the line runs under the Roosevelt Road, following the route of the former Xi ...
and the
Zhonghe–Xinlu line
The Zhonghe–Xinlu or Orange line (code O) is a metro line in Taipei operated by the Taipei Metro, named after the districts it connects: Zhonghe, Xinzhuang and Luzhou. The line starts at in Zhonghe, passes through central Taipei, then splits ...
. Public art at the station is titled "Chance of Meeting" and features 12
face masks representing contrasts such as day and night, noisy and quiet, time and space, etc.
It was selected by international competition and cost
NT$
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4,999,000.
Public art
The station is home to several public art pieces. By the escalators connecting the two platform levels, a Medium titled "Enterprise" displays a holographic flight trajectory of a
Small and Medium Enterprise Administration
The Small and Medium Enterprise Administration (SMEA; ) is the administrative agency of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Taiwan (ROC) responsible for small and medium-sized enterprises-related affairs.
Organizational structure
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Along some of the entrance hallways, "Administration" shows light boxes with images clouds in a blue sky.
On the upper platform in "Platform, Stage", elements from Taiwanese folk arts and
Taipei Language Institute have been transformed into abstract elements and institute into two curtains of lines and language surfaces.
Station layout
Around the station
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Leputing
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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 ...
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Taiwan Academy of Banking and Finance
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Thome Courtyard
See also
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List of railway stations in Taiwan
There are currently six operating railway systems in Taiwan:
The two Inter-city rail systems, Taiwan Railways and Taiwan High Speed Rail, have several overlaps in station names. See below ''Taiwan High Speed Rail'' section for their relations in ...
References
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Songshan–Xindian line stations
Zhonghe–Xinlu line stations
Railway stations opened in 1998