| Style: | MTR | ||||||||||||||||||
| Kowloon | |||||||||||||||||||
| Native Name: | 九龍 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh-Hant | ||||||||||||||||||
| Former: | West Kowloon (During planning) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Address: | Union Square, West Kowloon | ||||||||||||||||||
| Borough: | Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 22.3049°N 114.1615°W | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure: | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||
| Platform: | 4 (1 island platform on Tung Chung line and 2 side platforms on Airport Express) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Levels: | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks: | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Architect: | Farrells | ||||||||||||||||||
| Code: | KOW | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owned: | MTR Corporation | ||||||||||||||||||
| Operator: | MTR Corporation | ||||||||||||||||||
| Map Type: | Hong Kong MTR#Hong Kong urban core#Hong Kong Island | ||||||||||||||||||
| Map Alt: | Hong Kong MTR system map | ||||||||||||||||||
| Map State: | expanded | ||||||||||||||||||
Kowloon is a station on the and the of Hong Kong's MTR. It is one of the two Airport Express stations providing in-town check-in services for passengers departing from Hong Kong International Airport and free shuttle bus services to most major hotels in the Tsim Sha Tsui and Yau Ma Tei areas.
The station is located less than two hundred meters west of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link Hong Kong section West Kowloon Terminus, five hundred meters west of on the and a kilometre west of Jordan station on the .
Escalators link Elements directly with the station concourse.
The station was designed by TFP Farrells.[1] During the planning stage, it was called West Kowloon station . The construction contract (Contract 503C) was awarded to a joint venture of Kumagai Gumi, Entrecanales y Tavora, and Cubiertas y MZOV (both later merged to form Acciona) on 28 November 1994.
On 16 September 2000, the new shopping mall "Dickson CyberExpress" was opened by Dickson Poon. The size was spread over four levels of the station with six shopping areas.[2] However, the mall did not have the expected volume of customers and business was weak. After half a year, the mall shrank in size. The mall's management company planned to decrease the level of the mall from 4 levels to 3 levels and to combine some of the shopping areas.[3] Business remained poor due to sparse population near the station and a recession at that time. The mall finally closed its operation in 2005.[4]
The station was proposed as the terminus of the unbuilt East Kowloon line; the proposal indicated using a reserved confined space under the Tung Chung line platforms.[5]
The station is connected via footbridges to on the Tuen Ma line. The station is connected to West Kowloon Terminus of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link Hong Kong section.
As in other Airport Express stations, the Airport Express and the Tung Chung line have separated paid areas. Platform 2 is only used for disembarking passengers from Hong Kong International Airport or, except during morning rush hours from Monday to Saturday for boarding passengers traveling on the line to Hong Kong station with a Morning Express Ticket.[6]
| U5 | Residential and commercial area | Exits, Union Square, The Waterfront, Sorrento | ||
| The Harbourside, The Arch, International Commerce Centre, The Cullinan | ||||
| U4 | ||||
| Tung Chung line concourse | Exit, Elements mall | |||
| U3 | Airport Express concourse | Exit, Elements mall | ||
| Tung Chung line concourse | Exit, Elements mall, escalator to U5 | |||
| G | Airport Express check-in | Customer service, drop-off area, in-town check-in, left luggage | ||
| MTRshops, vending machines, toilets, police post | ||||
| Tung Chung line concourse | Exits, customer service, car park, toilet | |||
| Airport Express shuttle bus, public transport interchange | ||||
| MTRshops, Hang Seng Bank, automatic teller machines | ||||
| L2 Platforms | Airport Express concourse | Customer service, drop-off area, toilets | ||
| Side platform, doors will open on the left | ||||
| Platform 1 | towards → | |||
| Platform 2 | ← Airport Express towards (Terminus) | |||
| Side platform, doors will open on the left | ||||
| Airport Express concourse | Customer service, taxi stand, MTRshops, toilets | |||
| L4 Platforms | Platform 3 | towards → | ||
| Island platform, doors will open on the right | ||||
| Platform 4 | ← Tung Chung line towards Hong Kong (Terminus) | |||
| style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" | - | Confined space |