Olympic Station

Olympic 奧運

Appearance of Olympic station

Line      Tung Chung Line Code OLY Service hours 0607-0105 Connections Bus, Minibus

District Yau Tsim Mong Area Tai Kok Tsui Map MTR Website Coordinates 22°19′04″N 114°09′37″E / 22.317816°N 114.160214°E / 22.317816; 114.160214Coordinates: 22°19′04″N 114°09′37″E / 22.317816°N 114.160214°E / 22.317816; 114.160214

Opened June 22, 1998 Type of station Ground Level Type of platforms Side No. of platforms 2 No. of exits 11 No. of lifts 3 No. of shops 10

Station location

Olympic Station
Traditional Chinese	奧運
Simplified Chinese	奧运
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Àoyùn Cantonese (Yue) - Jyutping ou3 wan6 - Yale Romanization ou3 wan6

Olympic Station Platform No.1

Olympic Station Concourse (paid area)

Olympic Station (Chinese: 奧運站) is a station on the Tung Chung Line of Hong Kong's MTR. The livery is dodger blue.

The station was originally named Tai Kok Tsui in proposals outlined by the government in the Airport Core Programme during the 1990s. In 1996, however, when Lee Lai Shan won the first ever Olympic gold medal of Hong Kong in windsurfing at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics and two Hong Kong sportsmen, Cheung Yiu Cheung and Chiu Chung Lun, also won Gold medals in Paralympic Games of the same year, the (then under construction) station was renamed Olympic on 16 December 1996, paying tribute to those achievements of Hong Kong athletes. The station is decorated with the pictures of 1996 Summer Olympics and is named after the Olympic Movement.

Station layout

U2 Concourse	Concourse	Exits, customer service, MTRshops, Hang Seng Bank
		Vending machines, automatic teller machines
G Platforms (Ground)	Exit	Exit A1, Island Harbourview Bus Terminus
	-	Lin Cheung Road, West Kowloon Highway
	Platform 1	Tung Chung Line towards Tung Chung and Disneyland Resort Line
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	-	Airport Express tracks
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	Tung Chung Line towards Hong Kong
	-	Lin Cheung Road, Sham Mong Road
	Exits	Exit B, C1, C2, Olympic Station Bus Terminus

Although both platforms are parallel to each other on ground level, they do not share the same island platform due to the Airport Express Trains running through the middle of the station.

It is interesting to note that, with the exception of transfer to buses, Olympic station is the only station along the Tung Chung Line that does not have a transfer point to other routes in the MTR system (Tung Chung being to transfer to the Ngong Ping 360 cable cars)

Entrances/Exits

All exits are reached by pedestrian footbridges reaching out to all directions from the concourse, built in a rectangular box in the middle of the West Kowloon Highway.

• A1: Island Harbourview Bus Terminus
• A2: Island Harbourview
• B: HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3
• C1: Sham Mong Road
• C2: Cherry Street
• C3: HSBC Centre Towers 2 and 3
• C4: HSBC Centre Tower 1
• C5: Florient Rise
• D1: Olympian City 2 and Park Avenue
• D2: Lin Cheung Road
• D3: Cherry Street
• E: Bank of China Centre

Transport connections

Bus routes

To Shek Lei Estate:

• 31B

To Shek Wai Kok:

• 32

To Tsuen Wan (Nina Tower):

• 33A

To Kwai Shing (Central):

• 37

To Tai Hing Estate:

• 66X

To Tai Po Central:

• 72X

To Pok Hong Estate:

• 87A

To Sun Tin Wai Estate:

• 87B

Neighbouring stations

Preceding station		MTR		Following station
Nam Cheong towards Tung Chung		Tung Chung Line		Kowloon towards Hong Kong

References