Gwanggyo Jungang station

GwanggyoJungang (Ajou Univ.) Station is a major metro station located in Gwanggyo, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Jungang means "center" in Korean, denoting the station's central location in Gwanggyo. The station is close to Ajou University and its hospital.

GwanggyoJungang (Ajou University) Station
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationGwanggyo jungang yeok Ajudae
McCune–ReischauerKwangkyo chungang yŏk Achutae
General information
LocationIui-dong, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do
Operated byNeoTrans Co. Ltd.
Line(s)     Shinbundang Line
Platforms2
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
Key dates
January 30, 2016     Shinbundang Line opened

Forming the downtown of Gwanggyo new city, the Gyeonggi Provincial Office is scheduled to be built here and it is directly surrounded by many large shopping malls such as Avenue France and World Square, a Lotte outlet and cinema and the popular Gwanggyo lake park and cafe street.

Underground bus transfer station

The station is the country's first subway station to have an underground bus transfer station which was planned to open in early March 2016, where screen doors are installed on bus platforms so bus riders from all over Suwon can transfer to the subway directly by walking down only one floor.[1]

References

Preceding station   Seoul Metropolitan Subway   Following station
toward Gangnam
Shinbundang Line
Terminus
toward Gangnam
Shinbundang Line
Suwon World Cup Stadium
toward Gwanggyo

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