Guting MRT station

	Guting MRT station
Chinese	古亭站
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Gǔtíng Zhàn
Bopomofo	ㄍㄨˇ ㄊㄧㄥˊ ㄓㄢˋ
Hakka
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ	Kú-thìn Cham

Guting
Guting; G09 / O05 古亭
	Guting station platform 2
Location	164-1 Sec 2 Roosevelt Rd; Zhongzheng and Da'an, Taipei; Taiwan
Operated by	Taipei Rapid Transit System;
Line(s)	Songshan–Xindian Line (G09); Zhonghe–Xinlu Line (O05);
Connections	Bus stop
Construction
Structure type	Underground
History
Opened	1998-12-24
Traffic
Passengers	61,215 daily (2016)[1]; (Ranked 15th of 109)
Services

The Taipei Metro Guting station (formerly transliterated as Kuting Station until 2003) is located on the border of Zhongzheng and Da'an in Taipei, Taiwan.^[2] It is an interchange station with Green Line, Zhonghe Line, and the Xinzhuang Line.

The defunct TRA Xindian Line also had a station of the same name. However, its location is not the same as the current station.

Station overview

Guting station platform 1

The station is a three-level, underground structure with two island platforms and nine exits. The two platforms are stacked, allowing for cross-platform interchange between Green Line and Orange Line. Public art at the station is titled "Chance of Meeting" and features 12 face masks representing contrasts such as day and night, noisy and quiet, time and space, etc.^[3] It was selected by international competition and cost NT$4,999,000.

Public art

The station is home to several public art pieces. By the escalators connecting the two platform levels, a Medium titled "Enterprise" displays a holographic flight trajectory of a Small and Medium Enterprise Administration.^[4] Along some of the entrance hallways, "Administration" shows light boxes with images clouds in a blue sky.^[4] On the upper platform in "Platform, Stage", elements from Taiwanese folk arts and Taipei Language Institute have been transformed into abstract elements and institute into two curtains of lines and language surfaces.^[4]

Station layout

L1	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
B1	Concourse	Lobby, toilets, one-way ticket machine, information desk
B2	Platform 1	Songshan–Xindian Line toward Songshan (G10 Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the right, left
	Platform 2	Zhonghe–Xinlu Line toward Luzhou / Huilong (O06 Dongmen) →
B3	Platform 3	← Songshan–Xindian Line toward Xindian / Taipower Building (G08 Taipower Building)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Platform 4	← Zhonghe–Xinlu Line toward Nanshijiao (O04 Dingxi)

Around the station

Leputing

References

↑ "Passenger Volume at Taipei Rapid Transit Stations" (PDF). Taipei City Department of Transportation. 2017-03-13. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
↑ "Route Map: Guting". Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation. Archived from the original on 2010-08-09. Retrieved 2010-06-14.
↑ "Public Art on the Xindian Line". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. Retrieved 2010-12-05.
1 2 3 "Public Art on the Xindian Line". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. Retrieved 2010-12-06.

Coordinates: 25°01′38″N 121°31′20″E / 25.027109°N 121.522216°E / 25.027109; 121.522216

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[ridershipstats-1] "Passenger Volume at Taipei Rapid Transit Stations" (PDF). Taipei City Department of Transportation. 2017-03-13. Retrieved 2017-03-13.

[2] "Route Map: Guting". Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation. Archived from the original on 2010-08-09. Retrieved 2010-06-14.

[3] "Public Art on the Xindian Line". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. Retrieved 2010-12-05.

[art-4] 1 2 3 "Public Art on the Xindian Line". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. Retrieved 2010-12-06.