Prince Edward Station (MTR)

Prince Edward 太子
MTR rapid transit station
Platforms 4 (foreground) and 3 (background)
Location	Nathan Road/Prince Edward Road West, Mong Kok Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°19′28″N 114°10′06″E / 22.3245°N 114.1683°ECoordinates: 22°19′28″N 114°10′06″E / 22.3245°N 114.1683°E
Operated by	MTR Corporation
Line(s)	Kwun Tong Line      Tsuen Wan Line
Platforms	4 (island platforms)
Connections	Bus, public light bus, Mainland coach
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Platform levels	2
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	PRE
History
Opened	10 May 1982
Services
Preceding station   MTR   Following station Mong Kok towards Central Tsuen Wan Line Sham Shui Po towards Tsuen Wan Mong Kok towards Yau Ma Tei Kwun Tong Line Shek Kip Mei towards Tiu Keng Leng
Location
Prince Edward Location within the MTR system

Prince Edward Station
Chinese	太子
Literal meaning	Prince
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Tàizǐ Yue: Cantonese Jyutping taai3 zi2 Yale Romanization taai3 ji2

Prince Edward is a station of the MTR rapid transit system in Hong Kong. It is located in Northern Mong Kok, Kowloon, under the intersection of Nathan Road and Prince Edward Road West. The station is named after this road. The station's livery is pale purple.

History

As Prince Edward was primarily designed as a cross-platform interchange between the Kwun Tong and Tsuen Wan lines, although the Kwun Tong Line tracks had already been laid in 1979, the station was not used until the opening of the Tsuen Wan Line on 10 May 1982. During the first week of operation, the station served only as an interchange with no exits to the concourse or street level.

Location

Prince Edward Station and Mong Kok Station are the two closest stations in Hong Kong. They are only about 400 metres apart and the train takes less than one minute to travel from one station to the other.

Timetable

Line		Destination	First train	Last train
	Kwun Tong Line	Tiu Keng Leng	06:18	00:47
		Kwun Tong		01:07
		Yau Ma Tei	06:08	00:46
	Tsuen Wan Line	Tsuen Wan	06:17	01:06
		Central	06:08	00:47
Source: MTR[1]

Station layout

Prince Edward is an opposite-directional cross-platform interchange station for southbound Kwun Tong Line passengers going towards Tsuen Wan and southbound Tsuen Wan Line passengers going towards Tiu Keng Leng. Mong Kok serves as the cross-platform interchange station for passengers travelling in the same direction.

G Ground	-	Exits
C Concourse	Concourse	Customer Service, MTRshops
		Vending machines, Automatic teller machines
		Octopus Promotion Machine
P1 Platform	Platform 1	→      Tsuen Wan Line towards Tsuen Wan (Sham Shui Po) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	←      Kwun Tong Line towards Yau Ma Tei (Mong Kok)
P2 Platform	Platform 4	←      Tsuen Wan Line towards Central (Mong Kok)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Platform 3	→      Kwun Tong Line towards Tiu Keng Leng (Shek Kip Mei) →

^[2]

Entrances and exits

All exits are within one block of Nathan Road, stretching from Prince Edward Road in the south to Playing Field Road in the north.^[3] Prince Edward is primarily an interchange rather than a destination since there are only seven exits; neighbouring Mong Kok has fourteen.^[4]

Transport connections

Cross-border bus services

There are stops of cross-border buses to Shenzhen, Dongguan, and Guangzhou on Playing Field Road (exit A) or Portland Street (exits C2 and D).

References

1. "Prince Edward Station timetable" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
2. "Prince Edward Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
3. "Prince Edward Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
4. "Mong Kok Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation. Retrieved 29 July 2014.

See also

• Prince Edward, Hong Kong