Sizihwan Station
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Sizihwan Station is a terminal station
Terminal Station
Terminal Station is a 1953 film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of the love affair between an Italian man and an American woman. The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Production:...

 of the Orange Line
Orange Line, KMRT
The Orange Line is an East-West line of the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It opened on September 14, 2008, the day of Mid-Autumn Festival, for a week-long free trial service...

 of KMRT. It is located in Hamaxing of Gushan District
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...

. Its name is derived from Sizihwan
Sizihwan
Sizihwan is a community near Kaohsiung in Taiwan. It is served by Sizihwan Station on the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit Orange Line. Sizihwan Bay is located here....

, a nearby scenic area.

Station overview

The nearby 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...

 Kaohsiung Port Station (高雄港站) closed after service began on the Orange Line through this station. It opened in 1908 to begin train service into the Kaohsiung Harbor area. The train station area will be turned into a railway cultural park.

Station design

The station is a two-level, underground station with an island platform
Island platform
An island platform is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange...

. It is located at the junction of Linhai 2nd Road and Gushan 1st Road and has 2 exits. The station is 282 meters long.

Station Layout

Street Level Entrance/Exit Entrance/Exit
B1 Concourse Lobby, information desk, automatic ticket machines, one-way faregates
Restrooms (Near Exits 2)
B2 Platform 1   Orange Line toward 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...

 (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...

)
Island platform
Island platform
An island platform is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange...

, Door open on the left
Platform 2   Orange Line toward 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...

 (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...

)

Exits

  • Exit 1: Gushan Ferry Station, Gushan Post Office
  • Exit 2: Kaohsiung Customs, Kaohsiung Fisherman's Wharf
    Kaohsiung Fisherman's Wharf
    The Port of Kaohsiung is one of the top 10 great ports in the world. In the process of Taiwan's economy developing, it has played a very important role successfully. The Kaohsiung Fisherman's Wharf is originally the no.2 port of the port of Kaohsiung, and its previous function was exporting...


Around the station

  • Kaohsiung Port Station
  • Gushan Ferry Station
  • Bank of Taiwan
    Bank of Taiwan
    The Bank of Taiwan is a bank headquartered in Taipei, Republic of China . It is administered and owned by the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China.-History:...

    , Gushan Branch
  • Chunghwa Post
    Chunghwa Post
    The Chunghwa Post Co., Ltd. , formerly Taiwan Post Co. , is the official postal service of the Republic of China , providing mail service for Taiwan Area of the Republic of China. It also provides a savings account service...

    , Gushan Post Office
  • National Sun Yat-sen University
    National Sun Yat-sen University
    The National Sun Yat-sen University is a public university located in Kaohsiung, Republic of China . The university is known as NSYSU ....

  • Gushan Elementary School
  • Gushan Market

Nearby stations

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