Far Eastern Hospital Station

Far Eastern Hospital
亞東醫院
Taipei Metro

Far Eastern Hospital Station Faregates
Location B1F, No. 17, Sec. 2, Nanya S. Rd.
Banqiao, New Taipei
Taiwan
Operated by
Line(s)
Connections Bus stop
Construction
Structure type Underground
History
Opened May 31, 2006
Traffic
Passengers 25,704 daily (2011)[1]
(Ranked 46th of 89)
Far Eastern Hospital Station
Traditional Chinese 亞東醫院站
Simplified Chinese 亚东医院站

The Taipei Metro Far Eastern Hospital Station is a station on the Tucheng Line located in Banqiao District, New Taipei, Taiwan.[2]

Station layout

L1 Street Level Exit/ Entrance
B1 Concourse Lobby, ticket machine, information desk, one-way faregates
Restrooms (Inside fare zone)
B2 Platform 1   Line 5 toward Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center (Fuzhong)
Island platform, Doors will open on the left
Platform 2   Line 5 toward Dingpu (Haishan)
  Line 5 termination platform →
Far Eastern Hospital Station Exit 1: An arch bridge style entrance.

The station features an underground island platform and three exits. The station is 243 meters long and 20.5 meters wide.[3]

Design and Public Art

The entrance to the station was designed as an arch bridge (from "qiao" in Banqiao, meaning "bridge"). It is also meant to represent a "cloud wall", a characteristic of traditional Chinese gardening; the station is located next to Yuanzhi Memorial Garden.[3]

Public art in the station consists of a piece titled "River Romance", which combined LED lamps with glass sticks to create a color-changing "river of time". Poems are engraved on the glass sticks, which look like moving waves from a distance.[4]

Exits

Around the station

References

  1. "Passenger Volume at Taipei Rapid Transit Stations" (PDF). Taipei City Department of Transportation. 2012-01-20. Retrieved 2012-02-05.
  2. "Route Map".
  3. 1 2 "工程線上 Status Report: 亞東醫院站出入口 外牆景觀工程特色". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. 2006-05-01. Retrieved 2010-06-19.
  4. "Public Art on the Tucheng Line". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. Retrieved 2010-12-09.
Preceding station   Taipei Metro   Following station
toward Dingpu
Line 5
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Coordinates: 24°59′54″N 121°27′09″E / 24.998301°N 121.452478°E / 24.998301; 121.452478


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