Prince Edward is an MTR station on the Kwun Tong line and Tsuen Wan line. It is located under the intersection of Nathan Road and Prince Edward Road West, after which it is named. The station’s colour scheme is light purple.
History Prince Edward was primarily designed as a cross-platform interchange between the Kwun Tong and s. 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
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. The MTR closed the station during the incident, while the police refused to let medics enter. The station subsequently became a flashpoint for continued discord, with protesters petitioning MTR to release CCTV footage from the evening of 31 August. 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.
Location Prince Edward station and Mong Kok station are the two closest stations in Hong Kong. They are only apart. Trains take less than one minute to travel from one station to the other.
Station layout
GGround levelExitsL1ConcourseCustomer Service, MTRshopsVending machines, Automatic teller machinesOctopus Promotion MachineL2Interchange PlatformPlatform towards () →Island platform, doors will open on the rightPlatform ← towards ()L3Mezzanine PlatformPlatform ← Tsuen Wan line towards (Mong Kok)Island platform, doors will open on the leftPlatform Kwun Tong line towards () → Prince Edward is a cross-platform interchange station for the southbound Kwun Tong line passengers going northbound on the , and southbound Tsuen Wan line passengers going towards . Mong Kok serves as the cross-platform interchange station for passengers travelling in the same direction.
Colour scheme The station's colour scheme is light purple because of its association as a regal colour.
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. Prince Edward station is primarily an interchange rather than a destination since there are only seven exits; the neighbouring Mong Kok has fifteen. A: Mong Kok Stadium, Playing Field Road, Prince Centre B: Mong Kok Police Station B1: Flower Market Road B2: Sai Yeung Choi Street South, Elize PARK C: Metropark Hotel Mongkok C1: Nathan Road, Golden Plaza C2: Metropark Hotel Mongkok, Tai Nan Street, Tong Mi Road, Tai Kok Tsui D: Yu Chau Street E: Cheung Sha Wan Road, Union Park Centre
Transport connections
Cross-border bus services There are stops for cross-border buses to Shenzhen, Dongguan, and Guangzhou on Playing Field Road (exit A) or Portland Street (exits C2 and D).
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See also
Prince Edward, Hong Kong 2019 Prince Edward station attack
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