Tseung Kwan O Station

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Tseung Kwan O
將軍澳
Hong Kong MTR rapid transit station
Tseung Kwan O Station 2014 05 part1.JPG
Tseung Kwan O Station Livery
Hong Kong MTR system map
Hong Kong MTR system map
Location of Tseung Kwan O Station in Hong Kong
Station location and services
Line      Tseung Kwan O Line
Code TKO
District Sai Kung
Area Tseung Kwan O
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Map
Connections Bus, Minibus
Service hours 0604/0123
Station design
Livery  BB2200
Structure Underground
Platforms 2
Type of platforms Island
Exits 5
Lifts 1
Shops 13
Events
Opened 18 August 2002
Rail services
Preceding station   MTR   Following station
towards North Point
Tseung Kwan O Line
towards Po Lam
Terminus

Tseung Kwan O Station
Traditional Chinese 將軍澳
Simplified Chinese 将军澳
Literal meaning General's Bay

Tseung Kwan O is a station on MTR's Tseung Kwan O Line located at the town centre of the Tseung Kwan O New Town in 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]

Station layout

G
Concourse
(Ground)
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 towards LOHAS Park (Terminus)
Island platform, doors will open on the right
Platform 2      Tseung Kwan O Line towards North Point (Tiu Keng Leng)

Station concourse

Shop & Self-service corner
Shop
  • Hung Fook Tong Health Express
  • Maxim's Cakes
  • Okashi Land
  • Fotomax
  • Lady Story
  • Human Health Medical Centre
  • Teenage Forever
  • 7-Eleven
  • QQ Rice
Self-service corner
  • Hang Seng Bank
  • Bank of China ATM
  • Vending Machine
  • Photo Booth
  • Wood Boutique

Entrances/exits

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

Transport Connections

A transport interchange is found by exiting the station through Exits A1 or A2.

Minibus Route

To Clearwater Bay:

  • 103M

Bus Routes

To East Tsim Sha Tsui:

  • 796X

To Sai Kung:

  • 792M

To Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate:

  • 797M

Airport Express

There are three Citybus lines going from Tseung Kwan O MTR station to Airport.

E22A—Tseung Kwan O (Po Lam)

E22B—Tseung Kwan O (Po Lam) rush hour service

N29—Tseung Kwan O (Po Lam) midnight service

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.[2]

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.[3]

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

References

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  2. Future Development Sun Hung Kai Properties - Hotels. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
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