Taipei Main Station

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Taipei Main Station () is a major railway and metro station in Taipei, Taiwan. It is served by Taiwan Railway, Taiwan High Speed Rail, and Taipei Metro. It is also connected through underground passageways to the terminal station of Taoyuan Airport MRT and the Taipei Bus Station. It is the busiest transport hub in Taiwan.

Station overview

thumb|Layout of Taipei station in 2021, including the [[Taipei Main Station (Taoyuan Metro)|Taoyuan Airport MRT station and Beimen]]

The central building of Taipei Main Station is a rectangular building in Zhongzheng District with six stories above ground and four stories below ground. The building is long and wide. The first floor has a large ticketing hall with a skylight and three ground-level exits in each cardinal direction, the second is occupied by restaurants managed by the Breeze group, and all floors above are office spaces. At the B1 level, there are turnstiles for the TR and THSR platforms, along with a myriad of underground passageways for Taipei Bus Station, the Taoyuan Metro station, and Beimen metro station. Zhongshan Metro Mall, Taipei City Mall, Station Front Metro Mall, and Qsquare all connect on this level as well. TRA and THSR each have two island platforms at the B2 level. As for Taipei Metro, the Bannan line's platforms are located at the south of the station building; the entrances are at the B2 level, and the platforms are at B3. The Tamsui-Xinyi line's entrance is directly under the station building at B3, and the platforms are at B4.

Station layout

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|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=50 valign=top|6F ｜ 3F

|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=100 valign=top|Taiwan Railways Administration offices

|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=530 valign=top|Taiwan Railway, Scheduling Control Center TR employee rooms YMCA, other private companies (rented) TRA Auditorium

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" rowspan=2 valign=top|2F

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" rowspan=2 valign=top|Retail level

|Taipei Station Breeze Center, food court (elevator at East Entrance 2)

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Restrooms

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" rowspan=4 valign=top|L1

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" rowspan=2 valign=top|Street level

|Entrance/exit TRA/THSR ticketing, automatic ticket machines, tourism counter TRA information office, TRA station manager office, railway police TRA information desk, THSR police, THSR military police

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|TRA entrance/exit, guard

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" valign=top|TRA Luggage Office

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|TRA Parcel Center (separate structure)

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" valign=top|THSR Administration

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|offices

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" rowspan=5 valign=top|B1

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" rowspan=3 valign=top|Concourse

|THSR ticketing, TRA/THSR automatic ticketing, ticket gates, waiting area Restrooms

|Car park, military transportation service

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;border-top:solid 1px gray;"|Connects to B1 of the Taipei Metro

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" rowspan=2 valign=top|Underground passageway

|Zhongshan Metro Mall, Taipei Underground Market, Eslite Taipei Station, restrooms

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Connects to B1 of TRA/THSR, Taipei Bus Station

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px white;" rowspan=2 valign=top|B2

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" valign=top|Metro Lobby

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Information desk, faregates, restrooms (inside fare area) Red line, Blue line transfer area, escalators to platforms

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" valign=top|Metro offices (separate structure)

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Metro Control Center briefing rooms

|valign=top|2A

|TRA Control level

|TRA Traffic Room, Central Station Monitoring Center

|rowspan=14 valign=top|2B

|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=100|Platform 1A

|style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=530|THSR towards Zuoying ()

|style="border-top:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 2px black;text-align:center;" colspan=2|Island platform

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Platform 1B

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|THSR towards Zuoying (Banqiao)

|Platform 2A

|THSR towards (Terminus)

|style="border-top:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 2px black;text-align:center;" colspan=2|Island platform

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Platform 2B

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|THSR towards (Terminus)

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Fifth track

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|West Coast line does not stop here

|Platform 3A

|West Coast line towards , (Wanhua)

|style="border-top:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 2px black;text-align:center;" colspan=2|Island platform

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Platform 3B

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|West Coast line towards Shulin (Wanhua)

|Platform 4A

|West Coast line towards (Songshan)

|style="border-top:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 2px black;text-align:center;" colspan=2|Island platform

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Platform 4B

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|West Coast line towards , , (Songshan)

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" valign=top|TRA offices level

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Staff training classroom

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" valign=top|2C

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" valign=top|Machinery level

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" valign=top|Machinery

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" rowspan=6 valign=top|B3

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" rowspan=2 valign=top|Concourse (transfer to Metro TRA Entrance)

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" valign=top|TRA/THSR ticketing, automatic ticket machines, ticket gates Escalator to B2 – TRA/THSR platforms

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Metro faregates, information desk, lost and found, gallery Restrooms (inside and outside fare zone), automatic ticket dispensing machines One-way faregates

|Platform 3

|← Bannan line towards Nangang Exhib Center / Kunyang (BL13 Shandao Temple)

|style="border-top:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 2px black;text-align:center;" colspan=2|Island platform, doors open on the left

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Platform 4

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"| Bannan line towards / Far Eastern Hospital (BL11 Ximen) →

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" valign=top|Control Center (separate structure)

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|High-Capacity Traffic Control Center (another traffic center exists)

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" rowspan=3 valign=top|B4

|Platform 1

|← Tamsui–Xinyi line towards Tamsui / Beitou (R11 Zhongshan)

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"|Platform 2

|style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray;"| Tamsui–Xinyi line towards Xiangshan / Daan (R09 NTU Hospital) →

File:View in Taipei Station 03.jpg|Lobby of Taipei station, August 2018

File:Taipei Main Station 1F Floor Plan 20190811.jpg|Floor plan of the first floor of Taipei station, August 2019

File:Platform 3A, TRA Taipei Station 20181026.jpg|TRA platform 3A, October 2018

File:TRA PP at Platform 3B, Taipei Station 20190507.jpg|TRA platform 3B, May 2019

File:TRA EMU805 at Platform 4B, Taipei Station 20150818.jpg|TRA platform 4B, August 2015

File:TRA EMU900 test run at Taipei Station 20201127.jpg|A TRA EMU900 series train undergoing a test run at Taipei station, November 2020

File:Advance Ticket Counter, THSR Taipei Station 1F 20190814.jpg|THSR ticketing counters, August 2019

File:Platform 1, THSR Taipei Station 20180218.jpg|THSR platforms, February 2018

File:20200418 174445 台北車站捷運入口處紅外線體溫監測站.jpg|Taipei Metro Tamsui-Xinyi Line concourse, April 2020

File:EasyCard Add-value Machine 1 & 2, MRT Taipei Main Station B3 20190511.jpg|EasyCard top-up machines at the Taipei Metro concourse

File:Taipei Main Station Store, Taipei Metro Souvenir Shop 20200711.jpg|A Taipei Metro sourvenir shop at Taipei Main Station, 2020

File:Inauguration tablet of Taipei Main Station, Tamsui Line 20190908.jpg|Inauguration plaque of the Taipei Metro at Taipei Main Station

File:Flood depth record of Typhoon Nari, MRT Taipei Main Station 20190811a.jpg|A memorial plaque with a demarcation of the record flood levels of Typhoon Nari on Taipei Main Station

File:TW 台灣 Taiwan 台北 Taipei Metro 台北捷運 MRT Station tour night August 2019 SSG 14.jpg|Taipei Metro Tamsui-Xinyi Line platforms, August 2019

File:TW 台灣 Taiwan 中正區 Zhongzheng District 捷運台北車站 Taipei Main Metro MRT Station August 2019 SSG 02.jpg|Taipei Metro Bannan Line platforms, August 2019

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HSR services

Except for Service 583 and 598, all HSR services call at this station. The first two southbound trains in the day are 803 (stops at all stations) at 06:26 and 203 (Taipei-Banqiao-Taichung-Chiayi-Tainan-Zuoying) at 06:30. Service 203 is the only southbound train of the day that departs from Taipei Station instead of Nangang station. Although Service 203 departs four minutes after Service 803, passengers traveling to major cities such as Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung will save time taking Train No. 203, while Service 803 is more suitable for those traveling to nearby cities such as Taoyuan or Hsinchu.

Around the station

thumb|[[Taipei Main Station (Taoyuan Metro)|Taipei Main Station of the Taoyuan Airport MRT is connected to Taipei station via underground passageways.]]

thumb|Taipei City Mall

(K) K Underground Mall

Exit M1/Y2: TRA / THSR (Entrance North 1)
Exit M2: Civic Blvd Expressway
Exit M3: Cosmos Hotel Taipei / Talk Club Taiwan ()
Exit M4: TRA / THSR (Entrance South 1)
Exit M5: Station Front Plaza
Exit M6: Caesar Park Taipei, National Taiwan Museum
Exit M7: Zhongshan N. Rd.
Exit M8: Gongyuan Rd, YMCA Taipei

(M) Zhongshan Metro Mall

Taipei Bus Station
Qsquare
Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei
Zhongshan Station (R11, G14), Shuanglian station (R12)

(Y) Taipei City Mall

Palais de Chine Hotel
Taipei Station Wholesale Market
(G13)
Taipei Main Station (A1), Taoyuan International Airport MRT

(Z) Station Front Metro Mall

Taipei West Bus Station Terminal A
Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Department Store
Guanqian Rd, Land Bank, Taiwan Cooperative Bank
Chongqing S. Rd, First Bank
North Gate
Taipei Post Office of Chunghwa Post

History

thumb|Taipei station in 1914

thumb|The old Taipei station in 1948

The first rail station in Taipei was completed in Twatutia in 1891, during Qing rule, when the railway to Keelung was opened for service. Initially, a temporary station was built while a permanent station was constructed in 1897, during Japanese rule (1895–1945). In 1901, the station was located to the east of its current site. It was rebuilt in 1940 to accommodate growing passenger traffic.

To alleviate traffic congestion caused by railroad crossings in downtown Taipei, an underground railway tunnel between Huashan and Wanhua was built along with the present station building as part of the Taipei Railway Underground Project. When the underground system was completed on 2 September 1989, railway service was moved to the newly completed building (completed on 5 September 1989) and the old building as well as a temporary station were demolished.

The current station was further expanded with the opening of the Taipei Metro. The metro station is connected to the basement of the railway station and opened to passenger traffic in 1997 to the Tamsui–Xinyi line. It became a massive transfer hub with the opening of the Bannan Line in 1999. Extensive underground malls now exist at the front and back of the station, which emulate those found in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. The station also became a terminus for Taiwan High Speed Rail trains when the network began service in 2007.

The Taipei Main Station was a site of the 2025 Taipei stabbings.

Ongoing developments

Taipei station and the area surrounding it have been undergoing renovation since 2005. Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki was chosen to design two skyscrapers that will surround the railroad station. Maki will also oversee the renovation of Taipei station. The height of the taller tower will be 76 stories, whereas the shorter tower will be 56 stories. The two skyscrapers will be constructed on empty parcels found adjacent to Taipei station, above the Taoyuan Airport MRT station.

The station interior underwent renovation work from February to October 2011. Basement restrooms were renovated, the basement and first floor preparations for additional Breeze Plaza retail space began, the large ticket office in the first floor lobby was removed, and additional retail space was allocated.