Olympic station

Route map
	Legend

Olympic

奧運
Olympic; 奧運
MTR rapid transit station
	Station exterior
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	奧運
Simplified Chinese	奥运
Cantonese Yale	Ouwahn
Literal meaning	Olympics
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Àoyùn
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Ouwahn
Jyutping	Ou3wan6
General information
Location	Lin Cheung Road × Cherry Street, Tai Kok Tsui ; Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°19′04″N114°09′37″E / 22.3178°N 114.1602°E
Owned by	MTR Corporation
Operated by	MTR Corporation
Line(s)	Tung Chung line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Connections	Bus, minibus ;
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Platform levels	1
Accessible	Yes
Architect	CYS Associates
Other information
Station code	OLY
History
Opened	22 June 1998;25 years ago
Previous names	Tai Kok Tsui
Services
	Airport Express does not stop here
Route map
Route map
	Legend
Location
	Olympic Location within the MTR system Olympic Olympic (Hong Kong urban core)

Last updated April 02, 2024

Olympic is a station on the Tung Chung line of Hong Kong's MTR. The livery is dodger blue.

The station was originally named Tai Kok Tsui in proposals outlined by the government in the Airport Core Programme during the 1990s. In 1996, however, when Lee Lai-shan won the first ever Olympic gold medal of Hong Kong in windsurfing at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics and two Hong Kong sportsmen, Cheung Yiu-cheung and Chiu Chung-lun, also won Gold medals in the Paralympic Games 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 the 1996 Summer Olympics and is named after the Olympic Games.

Olympic is only one of two stations on the Tung Chung line not shared with another line, the other being Tung Chung.^[1]

History

On 22 June 1998, Olympic station opened in sync with Tung Chung line.

Station layout

Both side platforms are parallel to each other and are at ground level. They do not share the same island platform due to the Airport Express trains running through the station, between the two platforms, without stopping. The Tuen Ma line also does not serve this station, despite running under the east side of the station near Lin Cheung Road.

U2	Concourse	Exits, customer service, MTRshops, Hang Seng Bank
U2	Concourse	Vending machines, automatic teller machines
G	Ground level	Exit A1, Island Harbourview Bus Terminus
	Street level	Lin Cheung Road, West Kowloon Highway
	Platform 1	→ Tung Chung line towards Tung Chung (Nam Cheong) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Airport Express	→ Airport Express does not stop here →
	Airport Express	← Airport Express does not stop here
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform 2	← Tung Chung line towards Hong Kong (Kowloon)
	Street level	Lin Cheung Road, Sham Mong Road
	Exits	Exit B, C1, C2, Olympic Station Bus Terminus

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Entrances and exits

All exits are reached by pedestrian footbridges extending in different directions from the concourse, which is built in a rectangular box between West Kowloon Highway and Lin Cheung Road.

A1: Island Harbourview Bus Terminus
A2: Island Harbourview, Olympian City 1
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: Cherry Street
D2: Lin Cheung Road
D3: Olympian City 2 and 3
E: Bank of China Centre, Olympian City 1, The Long Beach, Hampton Place ^[3]

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References

↑ "Olympic Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation . Retrieved 27 February 2015. https://www.mtr.com.hk/archive/en/services/routemap.pdf
↑ "Olympic Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation . Retrieved 28 March 2015.
↑ "Olympic Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation . Retrieved 28 March 2015.

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[1] "Olympic Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation . Retrieved 27 February 2015. https://www.mtr.com.hk/archive/en/services/routemap.pdf

[2] "Olympic Station layout" (PDF). MTR Corporation . Retrieved 28 March 2015.

[3] "Olympic Station street map" (PDF). MTR Corporation . Retrieved 28 March 2015.

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