Songjiang Nanjing () is a metro station in Taipei, Taiwan served by Taipei Metro. It is a transfer station between the and . The station opened on 3 November 2010 for traffic on the , and services opened on 15 November 2014.
Station overview This underground station has an island platform for the Zhonghe-Xinlu line and has two side platforms for the Songshan-Xindian line. It is located beneath the intersection of Songjiang Rd. and Nanjing East Rd. (hence the name of the station), and opened in November 2010 with the opening of the Luzhou Line and the Taipei City section of the Xinzhuang Line.
Construction Excavation depth for this station was around 29 meters for the Xinzhuang Line station and 20 meters for the Songshan Line station. The Xinzhuang Line station is 191 meters in length and 32 meters wide, while the Songshan Line station is 202 meters in length and 26 meters wide. It has eight entrances, two accessibility elevators, and four vent shafts. Two of the entrances and a vent shaft are integrated with joint development buildings. One entrance is integrated with the Council for Economic Planning and Development building. The station is equipped with platform screen doors for both lines.
Public art The theme for the Songshan Line station is "Metropolitan Images of Daily Life" (都會眾生相). It uses four elements (earth, fire, water, wind) to present surreal situations of the combination of city and nature.
Earth: Business in the City Jungle Fire: University in a Flash Water: Office Under the Sea Wind: Coffee Shop Floating in the Clouds
History On 1 June 2003, construction began. The station was opened on 3 November 2010 for the Zhonghe–Xinlu line, followed by the opening of the Songshan-Xindian line on 15 November 2014.
Station layout
L1Street levelEntrance/exitB1ConcourseLobby, information desk, automatic ticket dispensing machines, one-way faregatesRestrooms (inside fare zone, outside fare zone near exit 1, 2, 6, 7)B2Passage levelEscalators, elevators to concourse and platform levelsSide platform, doors open on the rightPlatform 3← Songshan–Xindian line toward Songshan (G16 Nanjing Fuxing)Platform 4→ Songshan–Xindian line toward Xindian / Taipower Building (G14 Zhongshan) →Side platform, doors open on the rightPassage LevelEscalators, elevators to concourse and platform levelsB4Platform 1← Zhonghe–Xinlu line toward Luzhou / Huilong (O09 Xingtian Temple)Island platform, doors will open on the leftPlatform 2 Zhonghe–Xinlu line toward Nanshijiao (O07 Zhongxiao Xinsheng) →
Around the station Miniatures Museum of Taiwan Suho Memorial Paper Museum
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