Tseung Kwan O station

Tseung Kwan O (Chinese: 將軍澳; Cantonese Yale: Jēunggwān'ou; pronounced: [tsœːŋ˥kʷɐn˥.ou˧]) is a station on the MTR Tseung Kwan O line located at the town centre of the Tseung Kwan O New Town in the New Territories of Hong Kong. The previous station is Tiu Keng Leng and the line splits after this station to LOHAS Park and Hang Hau. The entrances to the station are on Tong Chun Street, Popcorn Mall and Tong Yin Street. A public transport interchange is located outside the station. The architecture firm Aedas designed the station.^[1]

Tseung Kwan O 將軍澳
MTR rapid transit station
Platform 1
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	將軍澳
Simplified Chinese	将军澳
Literal meaning	General's Bay
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiāngjūn'ào Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Jēunggwān'ou IPA [tsœ́ːŋ kʷɐ́n ʔōu] Jyutping Zoeng1gwan1ou3
General information
Location	Tseung Kwan O Sai Kung District, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°18′27″N 114°15′36″E / 22.3074°N 114.26°E / 22.3074; 114.26
Owned by	MTR Corporation
Operated by	MTR Corporation
Line(s)	Tseung Kwan O line
Platforms	2 (1 island platform)
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Accessible	Yes
Architect	Aedas
Other information
Station code	TKO
History
Opened	18 August 2002; 21 years ago (2002-08-18)
Services
Preceding station MTR Following station Tiu Keng Leng towards North Point Tseung Kwan O line Hang Hau towards Po Lam Tseung Kwan O line (Rush hours only) LOHAS Park Terminus Tiu Keng Leng Terminus Tseung Kwan O line Off-peak shuttle service
Track layout Legend to Hang Hau to LOHAS Park 1 2 to Tiu Keng Leng
Location
Tseung Kwan O Location within the MTR system

History

Tsueng Kwan O station opened to the public on 18 August 2002, together with the spur line to Tsueng Kwan O Depot, right next to LOHAS Park station, but the station did not open until 26 July 2009.

Station layout

G	Concourse	Exits, transport interchange
		Customer service, MTRshops
		Vending machines, automatic teller machines
L1 Platform	Platform 1	→      Tseung Kwan O line towards Po Lam (Hang Hau) → →      Tseung Kwan O line (LOHAS Park Shuttle) towards LOHAS Park (Terminus) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	←      Tseung Kwan O line towards North Point (Tiu Keng Leng) ←      Tseung Kwan O line (LOHAS Park Shuttle) towards Tiu Keng Leng (Terminus)

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Entrances/exits

• A1: Tseung Kwan O Plaza / Transport Interchange  
• A2: The Grandiose / Tseung Kwan O Plaza  
• B1/B2: Park Central  
• C: PopCorn  

Hotels

Sun Hung Kai Properties developed a 359-room Crowne Plaza hotel, a 176-room Vega Suites hotel and a 300-room Holiday Inn Express hotel at Tseung Kwan O station as part of a comprehensive hotel and shopping complex.^[3]

Shopping centre

The station is attached to an MTR-owned shopping centre called PopCorn that opened in 2012. It comprises over 40,000 square metres and houses about 150 retailers and a cinema.^[4]

PopCorn is an anchor connecting the nearby malls of PopCorn 2, Park Central, and Tseung Kwan O Plaza. A public transport interchange is situated next to PopCorn and serves public light buses routes 103M, 110 and 112S, and New World First Bus routes 792M, 796C, 796S, 796X, 797M, 798 and N796.

References

1. "Designers transfer Hong Kong know-how to Dubai's new metro". South China Morning Post. 2 December 2009. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
2. "Tseung Kwan O Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
3. Future Development Sun Hung Kai Properties - Hotels. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
4. Kao, Ernest (24 August 2015). "Mother and 2 children injured as ceiling collapses at MTR shopping mall in Tseung Kwan O". South China Morning Post.

 

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