metro station is a station of the Mexico City Metro in the city's borough of Benito Juárez. It is an underground railway stop with two side platforms serving Line 3 (Olive Line), between and . It was opened on 25 August 1980, providing service north toward and south toward .
metro station services the (neighborhoods) of and , in the intersection of and . The station's name references the avenue, which in turn honors philanthropist . Its pictogram depicts the silhouette of a stork, a bird associated with fertility, reflecting the meaning of the name Eugenia as "well-born".
Outside, there is the eponymous Metrobús station serving Line 3. In 2025, metro station had an average daily ridership of 11,457 passenger entries, ranking it the 126th busiest stop in the network.
Location and layout
is an underground metro station on Line 3 below , in the ("neighborhoods") of and , in the Benito Juárez borough, south-central Mexico City. The stop has two exits leading onto : the eastern exit in and the western one in . Land use in the area is predominantly residential, with local services.
The station lies below the city's Secretariat of Economic Development building. is located between and stations on the line. The area is serviced by the Metrobús bus rapid transit system (Line 3) at the eponymous Eugenia stop.
History and construction Line 3 of the Mexico City Metro was built by , , and , the latter being a subsidiary of . The section including Eugenia station formed part of a southward extension from to , opened on 25 August 1980, with service running north to and south to . The section between and station measures , while the opposite tunnel toward station is long.
The station formerly connected to Line O of the trolleybus system, which ran from San Antonio metro station to the wholesale market.
Name and pictogram Eugenia metro station is named after the nearby , also known as . José C. Castelló and his family, including his wife , owned a quinta in the area. Ojeda was a philanthropist, and her husband requested that the city government name the street in her honor when the area's nomenclature system was established around 1920 and 1924. Although the Mexico City Metro has other stations named after women – including , , or – is the only station in the system named after a Mexican woman. It is also the only station whose name is associated with a local person rather than a political or historical figure.
Eugenia means well-born, and the station's pictogram features a stork, a bird traditionally associated with fertility. The pictogram was designed by Lance Wyman, and it is one of the few in the system based on a European (specifically Ancient Greek) meaning. As of 2024, the Metrobús station is also one of the few stations named after Latin American women – the others being Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, , and Manuela Sáenz.
Incidents On 8 June 2023, part of the ceiling in the station's corridors collapsed following an afternoon of rain. According to an El Sol de México investigation in June 2024, Eugenia metro station is among the stations with the most sheets and wires used to cover leaks on Line 3, with four in total. At a northbound access, a leak reported in February of that year was patched, but was reported as detached the next month.
Ridership
According to official data, before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the station recorded between 18,200 and 18,400 average daily entries from 2016 to 2019. In 2025, it recorded 4,182,163 passenger entries, ranking 126th among the system's 195 stations.
Annual passenger ridership Year Ridership Average daily Rank % change Ref. 2025 4,182,163 11,457 126/195 2024 4,342,498 11,864 115/195 2023 4,165,742 11,412 109/195 2022 3,915,748 10,728 111/195 2021 2,823,476 7,735 115/195 2020 3,569,934 9,753 104/195 2019 6,700,579 18,357 97/195 2018 6,694,794 18,341 95/195 2017 6,659,665 18,245 96/195 2016 6,721,700 18,365 99/195
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