East Tsim Sha Tsui station should not be confused with Tsim Sha Tsui station.
| Style: | MTR | ||||||||||||||
| East Tsim Sha Tsui | |||||||||||||||
| Native Name: | 尖東 | ||||||||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh-Hant-HK | ||||||||||||||
| Mlanguage: |
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| Address: | Salisbury Road, Chatham Road South × Middle Road, Tsim Sha Tsui | ||||||||||||||
| Borough: | Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 22.2955°N 114.1754°W | ||||||||||||||
| Structure: | Underground | ||||||||||||||
| Platform: | 2 (1 island platform) | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks: | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Code: | ETS | ||||||||||||||
| Owned: | KCR Corporation | ||||||||||||||
| Operator: | MTR Corporation | ||||||||||||||
| Other Services Header: | Former services | ||||||||||||||
| Map Type: | Hong Kong MTR#Hong Kong urban core | ||||||||||||||
| Map Alt: | Hong Kong MTR system map | ||||||||||||||
| Map State: | expanded | ||||||||||||||
East Tsim Sha Tsui is a station of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) system of Hong Kong. It is currently an intermediate station on the .
The station was built to alleviate surface traffic jams and passenger congestion at Kowloon Tong station. The distance from to the station is about one kilometre with the journey time of around two minutes.
This station is linked with Tsim Sha Tsui station of the by subways (underground pedestrian tunnels).
The predecessor of the East Rail line was the Kowloon–Canton Railway (British Section), which was opened in 1910. At the time of opening, its southern terminus was the located in Tsim Sha Tsui, where the Clock Tower stands today. However, the old Kowloon station was closed in 1975, and the southern terminus of the railway was relocated to the newly built Hung Hom station.
An early predecessor to the present East Tsim Sha Tsui station, named Mariner in the East Kowloon line 1970 scheme, was intended to provide interchange to of the Kong Kow line (now part of).
Plans for East Tsim Sha Tsui were subsequently revived in 1993 when the plans for East Kowloon line were modified to become a medium-capacity system as part of an Eastern Corridor with transfer to the Lantau Airport Railway (now and). The contract to construct East Tsim Sha Tsui was subsequently awarded to a consortium consisting of Hong Kong-based Gammon Construction and Japan-based Nishimatsu.[1]
East Tsim Sha Tsui was opened on 24 October 2004 as a southward extension of the KCR East Rail from, the Tsim Sha Tsui Extension,[2] [3] [4] [5] symbolising the return of the railway to the Tsim Sha Tsui area after 30 years. It served as the southern terminus of the East Rail line until 16 August 2009. As a result of its underground location, the station was equipped with full-height platform screen doors, of the same type used on the KCR West Rail, which opened the year prior. The station was the only one on the East Rail line with these doors for five years, and as a result, the 12-car-long set of screen doors were the longest in the world.
The status of the East Tsim Sha Tsui station as the southern terminus of the East Rail line was intended to be a temporary arrangement only. Upon the opening of the MTR Kowloon Southern Link on 16 August 2009, the East Rail line terminated in the south at Hung Hom again (albeit only temporary until the opening of Sha Tin to Central Link in 2022), and the tracks between Hung Hom and East Tsim Sha Tsui became part of the . As a result, Hung Hom became the common southern terminus of (and provided cross-platform interchange between) the East Rail line and the West Rail line, whilst East Tsim Sha Tsui became an intermediate station on the West Rail line. Due to the shorter length of the Tuen Ma line trains (8 cars), the ends of the platforms were taken out of use and closed off.
On 27 June 2021, the officially merged with the (which was already extended into the Tuen Ma line Phase 1 at the time) in East Kowloon to form the new, as part of the Shatin to Central link project. Hence, East Tsim Sha Tsui was included in the project and is now an intermediate station on the Tuen Ma line.
| valign=top style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray; border-top:solid 1px gray; width:50px;" | Pk/PD | valign=top style="border-top:solid 1px gray; border-bottom:solid 1px gray; width:100px;" | Park/ Podium Deck | valign=top style="border-top:solid 1px gray; border-bottom:solid 1px gray; width:500px;" | Middle Road Children's Playground, Tsim Sha Tsui East Waterfront Podium Garden |
| G | Ground | Exits/Entrances, East Tsim Sha Tsui Station Transport interchange, Tsim Sha Tsui East (Mody Road) Transport interchange | |||
| C/S | Concourse | Customer service centres, washrooms shops, vending machines, ATMs | |||
| Subway | Subway to, Middle Road, Peking Road, Kowloon Park Drive, Canton Road Salisbury Road, Hanoi Road, K11 Art Mall, Nathan Road, Mody Road, Tsim Sha Tsui East | ||||
| P | Platform 1 | towards → | |||
| Island platform, doors will open on the right | |||||
| Platform 2 | ← Tuen Ma line towards |
Although the stations are connected by subway, the fare gates for East Tsim Sha Tsui and Tsim Sha Tsui stations are separated. Single journey ticket passengers transferring from the Tuen Ma line to the Tsuen Wan line must purchase a second ticket at Tsim Sha Tsui station as the ticket is withdrawn once the passengers exit through the turnstiles at East Tsim Sha Tsui station. In contrast, Octopus card users who transfer between East Tsim Sha Tsui and Tsim Sha Tsui stations within thirty minutes without making any other transport related purchases or more than nine non-transport related purchases in between stations are considered to have taken a single journey and are charged accordingly. Also, MTR City Saver users who transfer between East Tsim Sha Tsui and Tsim Sha Tsui stations within thirty minutes are considered to have taken a single journey and no extra journey will be charged.
East Tsim Sha Tsui station is linked with Tsim Sha Tsui station through the Mody Road and Middle Road subways. When both stations' exits are combined, the total number of exits outnumber even that of Central. Tsim Sha Tsui station has the exit with the highest letter of all rail stations in Hong Kong.
There's no exits I or O because of the confusion with 1 and 0 respectively.