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East Tsim Sha Tsui Station (Chinese: 尖東站) is a station of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) system of Hong Kong. It is currently an intermediate station on the West Rail Line. The station was built to alleviate surface traffic jams and passenger congestion at Kowloon Tong Station. The distance from Hung Hom to the station is about one kilometre with the journey time of less than two minutes. This station is linked with Tsim Sha Tsui Station of the Tsuen Wan Line by subways (underground pedestrian tunnels). ==History== An early predecessor to East Tsim Sha Tsui station, named Mariner Station in the East Kowloon Line 1970 scheme, was intended to interchange with Tsim Sha Tsui Station of the Kong Kow Line (now part of Tsuen Wan Line). Plans for East Tsim Sha Tsui station were subsequently revived in 1993 when the plans for East Kowloon Line were modified to become a medium-capacity system as part of an Eastern Corridor with transfer to the Lantau Airport Railway (now Airport Express and Tung Chung Line). The contract to construct East Tsim Sha Tsui station was subsequently awarded to a consortium consisting of Hong Kong-based Gammon Construction and Japan-based Nishimatsu.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.gammonconstruction.com/en/html/projects/projects-d556f024d50345ea86e993229c4ee0db.html )〕 East Tsim Sha Tsui station was opened on 24 October 2004 as a southward extension of the East Rail Line from Hung Hom Station, and served as the southern terminus of the East Rail Line until 16 August 2009. The predecessor of the East Rail Line is the Kowloon-Canton Railway (British Section), which was opened in 1910. At the time of opening, its southern terminus was the old Kowloon Station located in Tsim Sha Tsui, where the Clock Tower stands today. However, the old Kowloon Station in Tsim Sha Tsui was demolished in 1974, and the southern terminus of the railway was relocated to a newly built station in Hung Hom. Therefore, the 2004 southward extension from Hung Hom Station to East Tsim Sha Tsui Station symbolised the return of the railway to the Tsim Sha Tsui area after 30 years. The status of East Tsim Sha Tsui Station as the southern terminus of the East Rail Line was intended to be a temporary arrangement only. Upon the opening of the MTR Kowloon Southern Link on 16 August 2009, the East Rail Line terminates at Hung Hom Station to the south again, and the tracks between Hung Hom Station and East Tsim Sha Tsui Station became part of the West Rail Line. As a result, Hung Hom Station is now the common southern terminus of (and an interchange station for) the East Rail Line and the West Rail Line, whilst East Tsim Sha Tsui Station is now an intermediate station on the West Rail Line. Before the construction of the Kowloon Southern Link, this was the only station on the East Rail Line with platform screen doors. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「East Tsim Sha Tsui Station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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