Yongdu station

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용두 (동대문구청)
Yongdu
(Dongdaemun-gu Office)
Seoul-metro-211-3-Yongdu-station-platform-20181122-105806.jpg
Station Platform
Korean name
Hangul
용두역
Hanja
Revised Romanization Yongdu-yeok
McCune–Reischauer Yongdu-yŏk
General information
Location47-1 Yongdu-dong,
Cheonhodaero Jiha 129,
Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul [1]
Coordinates 37°34′26″N127°02′17″E / 37.57400°N 127.03807°E / 37.57400; 127.03807
Operated by Seoul Metro
Line(s)      Line 2
Platforms2
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
History
OpenedOctober 20, 2005 [1]
Passengers
(Daily) Based on Jan-Dec of 2012.
Line 2: 4,625 [2]
Services
Preceding station Seoul Metropolitan Subway Following station
Sindap
towards Seongsu
Line 2
Seongsu Branch
Sinseol-dong
Terminus

Yongdu Station is a station on the Seongsu Branch of the Seoul Subway Line 2. It is located in Yongdu-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul. The name of the station means "dragon head". [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "용두역" (in Korean). Doopedia. Retrieved 2016-07-26.
  2. Monthly Number of Passengers between Subway Stations Archived October 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine . Korea Transportation Database, 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  3. "Yongdu". Seoul Metro. Archived from the original on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-07-26.