Prince Edward station

Prince Edward is a MTR station on the Tsuen Wan line. It is located under the intersection of Nathan Road and Prince Edward Road West, after which it is named.

History

Prince Edward was primarily designed as a cross-platform interchange between the Kwun Tong and Template:Lnls. While the Kwun Tong line tracks had already been built in 1979, the station was not used until the opening of the Tsuen Wan line on 10 May 1982. During the first week of operation, the station served only as an interchange with no exits to the concourse or street level. On 17 May 1982, all the station's exits were opened.

Prince Edward station attack

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} On the evening of 31 August 2019, amid the anti-extradition bill protests, the Hong Kong Police stormed Prince Edward station and were filmed beating passengers and firing pepper spray inside railway carriages.<ref name="violenceerupts">Template:Cite news</ref> The MTR closed the station during the incident, while the police refused to let medics enter.<ref name="reels">Template:Cite news</ref> The station subsequently became a flashpoint for continued discord, with protesters petitioning MTR to release CCTV footage from the evening of 31 August.<ref name="demand">Template:Cite news</ref> The incident at Prince Edward, as well as MTR's perceived support of Beijing (by closing stations near protests in the aftermath of criticism by Chinese state media for remaining operational), led to vandalism of other MTR stations. MTR condemned the vandalism and responded that the relevant CCTV footage would be kept for three years.<ref name="doesnottolerate">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Location

Prince Edward station and Mong Kok station are the two closest stations in Hong Kong. They are only Template:Cvt apart, trains take less than one minute to travel from one station to the other.

Station layout

G	Ground level	Exits
L1	Concourse	Customer Service, MTRshops
		Vending machines, Automatic teller machines
		Octopus Promotion Machine
L2 Platform	Platform Template:MTR platform	Template:0 Template:Rcb towards Template:STN (Template:STN) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform Template:MTR platform	← Template:Rcb towards Template:STN (Template:STN)
L3 Platform	Platform Template:MTR platform	← Template:Rcb Tsuen Wan line towards Template:STN (Mong Kok)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Platform Template:MTR platform	Template:0 Template:Rcb Kwun Tong line towards Template:STN (Template:STN) →

Prince Edward is an opposite-directional cross-platform interchange station for the southbound Kwun Tong line passengers going towards Template:Lnl and the southbound Tsuen Wan line passengers going towards Template:STN. Mong Kok serves as the cross-platform interchange station for passengers travelling in the same direction.<ref>Template:MTRsource</ref>

Livery

The station's colour is light purple because of its association as a regal colour.<ref name=scmp104875>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Entrances and exits

All exits are within one block of Nathan Road, stretching from Prince Edward Road in the south to Playing Field Road in the north.<ref>Template:MTRsource</ref> Prince Edward station is primarily an interchange rather than a destination since there are only seven exits; the neighbouring Mong Kok has fifteen.<ref>Template:MTRsource</ref>

• A:Playing Field Road
• B:Mong Kok Police Station
  • B1:Flower Market Road

• 

  Old Exit B1

  • B2:Sai Yeung Choi Street South

• 

  Old Exit B2(June 2020)

• 

  Old Exit B2(June 2023)

• C:Metropark Hotel Mongkok
  • C1:Nathan Road, Golden Plaza
  • C2:Tai Nan Street,Tong Mi Road, Tai Kok Tsui
• D:Yu Chau Street
• E:Cheung Sha Wan Road

Transport connections

Cross-border bus services

There are stops of cross-border buses to Shenzhen, Dongguan, and Guangzhou on Playing Field Road (exit A) or Portland Street (exits C2 and D).

Gallery

• 
  Washrooms in the paid area of the concourse (2022)
• 
  Platforms (2022)
• 
  Station concourse (2020)
• 
  Exit A entrance, with the Mong Kok Police Station in the back (2020)
• 
  Panorama of the concourse with the customer service centre visible on the left (2020)

See also

• Prince Edward, Hong Kong
• 2019 Prince Edward station attack