Puhŭng station is a
metro station
A metro station or subway station is a train station for a rapid transit system, which as a whole is usually called a "metro" or "subway". A station provides a means for passengers to purchase tickets, board trains, and evacuate the syste ...
on the
Mangyongdae Line of the
Pyongyang Metro
The Pyongyang Metro () is the rapid transit system in Pyongyang, the capital and largest city of North Korea. It consists of two lines: the Chollima Line, which runs north from Puhŭng Station on the banks of the Taedong River to Pulgŭnbyŏl ...
.
It is the southern terminus of the
Chollima Line
The Chŏllima Line () is a rapid transit line owned and operated by Pyongyang Metro in Pyongyang, North Korea. The line has a depot at Sopo, near the Korean State Railway's Sopo station.
The section from Ponghwa station to Puhung station is als ...
. Before the rules were relaxed in 2010, it was one of the only two stations that
tourists
Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the Commerce, commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel. World Tourism Organization, UN Tourism defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as ...
could visit, the other one being
Yonggwang station, because these two stations are the most finely decorated in the system. These two stations were also the last two to be completed.
[
Puhŭng station features murals entitled ''The Great Leader Kim Il-sung Among Workers'',][
File:Subway Mosaic (32323929893).jpg, ''A Morning of Innovation''
File:Mosaic Mural at Puhung Station.jpg, ''The Great Leader Kim Il-sung Among Workers''
File:Laika ac Pyongyang Metro (7953416304).jpg, ''Song of a Bumper Crop''
]
References
External links
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360° interactive panorama inside Puhŭng station
Pyongyang Metro stations
Murals in North Korea
Railway stations in North Korea opened in 1987
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