Jingan (, formerly transliterated as Ching-An Station until 2003) is a metro station in

New Taipei New Taipei City is a 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 special municipality by area, b ...

, 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 elevated platforms opened on 31 January 2020.

Station overview

This six-level, underground station has two stacked

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 platform ...

s (a

split platform A split platform is a station that has a platform for each track, split onto two or more levels. This configuration allows a narrower station plan (or footprint) horizontally, at the expense of a deeper (or higher) vertical elevation, because ...

configuration,) two side platforms and one exit. Jingan station is also the only transfer station in the

to have only one exit. The platforms planned intersection with include additional. Due to the availability of the station area, when the Zhonghe line platform was being constructed, it adapted a stacked side platform configuration, making the platform level reach to six levels underground, making it one of the deepest stations in the metro system. The elevated Circular line, on the other hand, is one of the highest stations in the metro system with the platform level located five floors above ground, due to the Circular line needing to share the same path as Provincial Highway 64 on some parts of the line. Transferring from the Zhonghe-Xinlu line to the Circular line or vice versa takes about 5 minutes, with the height difference between the two platforms reaching 10 levels, the largest height difference of all transfer stations in the Taipei Metro.

Station layout

Exits

*Single Exit: Jingan Rd. Accessibility-directory

Around the station

*Jinshan Bannan Park (250m south of the station) *Zhonghe Heping Street Market (250m southeast of the station)

References

Railway stations opened in 1998 Zhonghe–Xinlu line stations Zhonghe District Circular line stations (Taipei Metro) {{Taiwan-metro-stub