Orange Line, KMRT
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The Orange Line is an East-West line of the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit
Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit
The Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit System is a rapid transit system covering metropolitan Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Construction of the KMRT started in October 2001. The Red Line and the Orange Line opened on March 9 and September 14, 2008, respectively...

 in Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung is a city located in southwestern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on the west. Kaohsiung, officially named Kaohsiung City, is divided into thirty-eight districts. The city is one of five special municipalities of the Republic of China...

, Taiwan
Taiwan
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. It opened on September 14, 2008, the day of Mid-Autumn Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival , also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival or Zhongqiu Festival, is a popular lunar harvest festival celebrated by Chinese and Vietnamese people. A description of the festival first appeared in Rites of Zhou, a written collection of rituals of the Western Zhou...

, for a week-long free trial service. After the free trial service, the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit offered a month-long single one-way promotional NT$15 service on both the Red and the Orange line, with regular ticket price applies after this.

The 14.4 kilometres (8.9 mi) line has 14 stations and is the second metro line to open in southern Taiwan. Shortly prior to opening, flaws such as emergency exit lighted signs, unclear ticket displays, and jammed emergency exits were fixed. Although it was originally supposed to open with the Red Line, it was delayed due to tunnel collapse during construction December 2005.

Stations

Code|Station Name|Connection|Location
EnglishChinese
Chinese language
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Orange Line
O1 Sizihwan
Sizihwan Station
Sizihwan Station is a terminal station of the Orange Line of KMRT. It is located in Hamaxing of Gushan District, Kaohsiung. Its name is derived from Sizihwan, a nearby scenic area.-Station overview:...


(NSYSU)
(Hamasen)
西子灣
(中山大學)
(哈瑪星)
Costal Line
Kaohsiung Cross-harbor Gondola
Gushan
Gushan District
Gushan District is an administrative district of Kaohsiung City, Republic of China in southern Taiwan.-Transportation:Gushan is serviced by the Siziwan Station of Orange Line and the Aozihdi Station of Red Line of the rapid transit....

Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung is a city located in southwestern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on the west. Kaohsiung, officially named Kaohsiung City, is divided into thirty-eight districts. The city is one of five special municipalities of the Republic of China...

O2 Yanchengpu
Yanchengpu Station
The Kaohsiung MRT Yanchengpu Station is station on the Orange Line in Gushan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.-Station overview:The station is a two-level, underground station with an island platform and four exits. The station is 288 meters long and is located at the intersection of Dayong Rd. and Wufu...

鹽埕埔 Circular Line (exterior) Yancheng
Yancheng District, Kaohsiung
Yancheng District is the smallest district of Kaohsiung City in southern Taiwan. It is the least populous district of Kaohsiung since 2004. Yancheng district is also an old town of Kaohsiung.-Transportation:...

O4 City Council
City Council Station
The Kaohsiung MRT City Council Station is station on the Orange Line in Cianjin District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.-Station overview:The station is a two-level, underground station with an island platform and four exits. The station is 206 meters long and is located at the intersection of Jhongjheng 4th...

市議會 Cianjin
Cianjin District
Cianjin District is a downtown district of Kaohsiung city in southern Taiwan.-External links:*...

O5/R10 Formosa Boulevard
Formosa Boulevard Station
The Kaohsiung MRT Formosa Boulevard Station is a metro station located in Sinsing District, Kaohsiung. It is a transfer station between the Red Line and the Orange Line.-Overview:...

美麗島 Red Line
Red Line, KMRT
The Red Line is the north-south mass transit line of the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It is the first mass transit line built in southern Taiwan, started construction on October 24, 2001 and opened for service on March 9, 2008 with a month-long free ride service to April...

Sinsing
Sinsing District
Sinsing District is a downtown district of Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan.-External links:*...

O6 Sinyi Elementary School
Sinyi Elementary School Station
The Kaohsiung MRT Sinyi Elementary School Station is an underground station on the Orange Line in Sinsing District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.-Station overview:...

信義國小
O7 Cultural Center
Cultural Center Station
The Kaohsiung MRT Cultural Center Station is an underground station on the Orange Line in the edge of Sinsing District and Lingya District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.-Station overview:...

文化中心 Circular Line (exterior) Sinsing
Sinsing District
Sinsing District is a downtown district of Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan.-External links:*...


Lingya
Lingya District
Lingya District is one of the districts of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It is geometrically located in the center of Kaohsiung. The Tuntex Sky Tower and the Kaohsiung City Hall are located here...

O8 Wukuaicuo
Wukuaicuo Station
The Kaohsiung MRT Wukuaicuo Station is a station on the Orange Line in Lingya District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.-Station overview:...

五塊厝 Lingya
Lingya District
Lingya District is one of the districts of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It is geometrically located in the center of Kaohsiung. The Tuntex Sky Tower and the Kaohsiung City Hall are located here...

O9 Martial Arts Stadium
Martial Arts Stadium Station
The Kaohsiung MRT Martial Arts Stadium Station is an underground station on the Orange Line in Lingya District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.-Station overview:...

技擊館
O10 Weiwuying
Weiwuying Station
The Kaohsiung MRT Weiwuying Station is an underground station on the Orange Line in Lingya District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.-Station overview:The station is a two-level, underground station with an island platform and five exits. The station is 201 meters long and is located at the intersection of...

衛武營 Brown Line
O11 Fongshan West
Fongshan West Station
The Kaohsiung MRT Fongshan West Station is an underground station on the Orange Line in Fongshan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.-Station overview:...

鳳山西站 Fongshan
O12 Fongshan
Fongshan Station
The Kaohsiung MRT Fongshan Station is an underground station on the Orange Line in Fongshan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Located in the historical center of Fengshan. The MRT station is not far from the Taiwan Railway Administration Fengshan Station....

鳳山 TRA
Taiwan Railway Administration
The Taiwan Railway Administration is an agency of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of the Republic of China responsible for managing, maintaining, and running passenger and freight service on 1097 km of conventional railroad lines in Taiwan...

 Pingtung Line
Pingtung Line
The Pingtung Line is a line of the Taiwan Railway Administration. It is 61.3 km long, of which 20.9 km is double track. -History:This railroad was completed in 1941.It is electrified with two tracks from Kaohsiung to Pingtung....

: Fengshan (exterior)
O13 Dadong
Dadong Station
The Kaohsiung MRT Dadong Station is an underground station on the Orange Line in Fongshan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.-Station overview:The station is a three-level, underground station with an side platform and one exit. The station is 151 meters long and is located at the intersection of...

大東 Green Line
O14 Fongshan Junior High School
Fongshan Junior High School Station
The Kaohsiung MRT Fongshan Junior High School Station is station on the Orange Line in Fongshan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.-Station overview:...

鳳山國中 Pingtung Extension (planned)
OT1 Daliao
Daliao Station
The Kaohsiung MRT Daliao Station is a terminus on the Orange Line in Daliao District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.-Station Overview:The station is an at-grade, two-level station with an island platform and two exits. It is 148 meters long and is designed to handle 8,299 people/hour...

大寮 Daliao Extension (planned) Daliao
Pingtung Extension (from Fongshan Junior High School Station) (planned)
O14 Fongshan Junior High School
Fongshan Junior High School Station
The Kaohsiung MRT Fongshan Junior High School Station is station on the Orange Line in Fongshan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.-Station overview:...

鳳山國中 Main Section of the Orange Line Fongshan Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung is a city located in southwestern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on the west. Kaohsiung, officially named Kaohsiung City, is divided into thirty-eight districts. The city is one of five special municipalities of the Republic of China...

OP1 Piding 埤頂 Fongshan
Daliao
OP2 Cianjhuang
Qianzhuang
前庄 Daliao
OP3 Wongyuan
Wengyuan
翁園
OP4 Siliao
Xiliao
溪寮 Foguangshan Line
OP5 Jhuanzihyao
Zhuanziyao
磚子瑤 Pingtung
Pingtung City
Pingtung City is the capital of Pingtung County, Taiwan.-Geography:Pingtung is located in Pingtung County, the southernmost county in Taiwan. It is located east of Kaohsiung and Fengshan, and centered between the western coast and the eastern mountain range. The climate is humid and extremely hot...

Pingtung
County
Pingtung County
Pingtung County is a county in Southern Taiwan. Pingtung County is officially administered as a county of the Republic of China . The oldest national park in Taiwan, Kenting National Park, was established in Pingtung County in 1984...

OP6 Yucheng Village 玉成里
OP7 Sinsing
Xinxing
新興
OP8 Dingjhai
Dingzhai
頂宅
OP9 Taisugar Pingtung Factory 台糖屏東總廠
Daliao Extension (from Daliao Station) (planned)
OT1 Daliao
Daliao Station
The Kaohsiung MRT Daliao Station is a terminus on the Orange Line in Daliao District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.-Station Overview:The station is an at-grade, two-level station with an island platform and two exits. It is 148 meters long and is designed to handle 8,299 people/hour...

大寮 Main Section of the Orange Line Daliao Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung is a city located in southwestern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on the west. Kaohsiung, officially named Kaohsiung City, is divided into thirty-eight districts. The city is one of five special municipalities of the Republic of China...

OT2 Fonglin
Fenglin
鳳林
OT3 Gaoying 高英
OT4 Dafa Industrial Park 大發工業區
OT5 Sincuo
Xincuo
新厝
OT6 Jhaoming
Zhaoming
昭明
OT7 Tantou 潭頭
OT8 Linyuan Junior High School 林園國中 Linyuan
OT9 Linyuan Jhongsiao
Linyuan Zhongxiao
林園忠孝
OT10 Linyuan 林園 Red Line
Red Line, KMRT
The Red Line is the north-south mass transit line of the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It is the first mass transit line built in southern Taiwan, started construction on October 24, 2001 and opened for service on March 9, 2008 with a month-long free ride service to April...

Linyuan/Donggang Extansion
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