Olympic Station is a station on the Tung Chung Line of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

's MTR

MTR

Mass Transit Railway is the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong. Originally opened in 1979, the system now includes 211.6 km of rail with 155 stations, including 86 railway stations and 69 light rail stops...

. The livery is dodger blue.

The station was originally named Tai Kok Tsui

Tai Kok Tsui

Tai Kok Tsui is an area west of Mong Kok in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The mixed land use of industrial and residential is present in the old area. The Cosmopolitan Dock and oil depots were previously located there...

 in proposals outlined by the government in the Airport Core Programme

Airport Core Programme

The Hong Kong Airport Core Programme was a series of infrastructure projects centred around the new Hong Kong International Airport during the early 1990s...

 during the 1990s. In 1996, however, when Lee Lai Shan

Lee Lai Shan

Lee Lai-Shan MBE BBS is a former world champion and Olympic gold medal-winning professional windsurfer from Hong Kong. She is the first and last ever athlete to win an Olympic medal representing Hong Kong, not as part of China...

 won the first ever Olympic gold medal of Hong Kong in windsurfing

Windsurfing

Windsurfing or sailboarding is a surface water sport that combines elements of surfing and sailing. It consists of a board usually two to four metres long, powered by the orthogonal effect of the wind on a sail. The rig is connected to the board by a free-rotating universal joint and comprises a...

 at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics

1996 Summer Olympics

The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....

 and two Hong Kong sportsmen, Cheung Yiu Cheung and Chiu Chung Lun, also won Gold medals in Paralympic Games

Paralympic Games

The Paralympic Games are a major international multi-sport event where athletes with a physical disability compete; this includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and Cerebral Palsy. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which are held immediately following their...

 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

1996 Summer Olympics

The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....

 and is named after the Olympic Movement

Olympic Games

The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

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Station layout

U2 Concourse	Concourse	Exits, customer service, MTRshops, Hang Seng Bank Hang Seng Bank Hang Seng Bank Limited is the second largest bank in Hong Kong. It is a listed company but it is majority owned by the HSBC Group via The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Hang Seng is also one of the constituent shares of the Hang Seng Index...
		Vending machines, automatic teller machines
G Platforms (Ground)	Exit	Exit A1, Island Harbourview Bus Terminus
	-	Lin Cheung Road, West Kowloon Highway West Kowloon Highway West Kowloon Highway is a section of Route 3 in Hong Kong. This dual-3 lane highway runs for 4.2 km, connecting Western Harbour Crossing in the south with Tsing Kwai Highway in the north. While the southern section of the road is at grade, the northern part is on a viaduct in order to accommodate...
	Platform 1	towards Tung Chung and Disneyland Resort Line
	Side platform Side platform A Side platform is a platform positioned to the side of a pair of tracks at a railway station, a tram stop or a transitway. A pair of side platforms are often provided on a dual track line with a single side platform being sufficient for a single track line... , doors will open on the right
	-	Airport Express Airport Express (MTR) The Airport Express is one of the lines of the Mass Transit Railway serving Hong Kong. It links the principal urban areas of Hong Kong to Hong Kong International Airport and the associated AsiaWorld-Expo exhibition and convention centre....  tracks
	Side platform Side platform A Side platform is a platform positioned to the side of a pair of tracks at a railway station, a tram stop or a transitway. A pair of side platforms are often provided on a dual track line with a single side platform being sufficient for a single track line... , doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	towards Hong Kong
	-	Lin Cheung Road, Sham Mong Road Sham Mong Road Sham Mong Road is a major road on the new reclamation of 1990s in western New Kowloon of Hong Kong. The road starts from Cherry Street near HSBC Centre and MTR Olympic Station in Tai Kok Tsui, and ends in the former site of incinerator at the junction of Yuet Luen Street and Lai Po Road in Lai...
	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

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