Daan Park station () is a metro station on the Tamsui–Xinyi line of Taipei Metro,located beneath Xinyi Rd, Sec. 3 between Xinsheng South Rd. and Jianguo South Rd. in Da'an District, Taipei, Taiwan. It is located at the northern end of the Daan Forest Park, for which it is named. The station was opened on 24 November 2013.
Station overview
The two-level, underground station has an island platform, a naturally-lit hall and a sunken garden. The naturally-lit hall has two light towers and a light hallway. The sunken garden connects to the hall and has a ring-shaped corridor, pond, cascade and circular plaza. The station also has an underground parking lot.
An earlier draft for the station's design did not include the waterfall and sunken, ring-shaped corridor design, though it still maintained the sunken plaza within the station lobby.
Construction The station is long and wide and excavated to a depth of . It has six entrances, three elevators for the disabled and two vent shafts. One of the entrances is integrated into a joint development building. The 34-story building is incorporated into exit D and was completed in December 2010. Due to station construction, old banyan trees originally planted on the sidewalk along Xinyi Road were replanted elsewhere within the park.
Design The design theme for the station is "Forest Revolution: the City and Park Conversing".
Station layout Street levelEntrance/exitEntrance/exitB1Scenic concourseLobby, information desk, automatic ticketing dispensing machines, one-way faregates Sunlight hall, sunken garden Restrooms (inside fare zone, outside fare zone near exit 6)B2Platform 1← Tamsui–Xinyi line toward Tamsui / Beitou (R07 Dongmen)Island platform, doors will open on the leftPlatform 2→ Tamsui–Xinyi line toward Xiangshan / Daan (R05 Daan) →
First and last train timings The first and last train timings at Daan Park station are as follows:
DestinationFirst trainLast trainMon − FriSat − Sun and P.H.DailyR28 TamsuiR01guangci/fengtian palace station
Around the station Daan Forest Park Taipei Grand Mosque
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