Incheon International Airport Terminal 1 Station is a railway station on

AREX AREX (Airport Railroad Express) is a South Korean commuter rail line that links Incheon International Airport with Seoul Station via Gimpo International Airport. The section between the two airports opened on March 23, 2007, and line was exten ...

and

Incheon Airport Maglev The Incheon Airport Maglev is a maglev line in South Korea opened on 3 February 2016. It is the world's second commercially operating unmanned urban maglev line after Japan's Linimo. The trains are lighter, cutting construction costs in half ...

. It is in

Incheon International Airport Incheon International Airport (IIA; ) (sometimes referred to as Seoul–Incheon International Airport) is the largest airport in South Korea. It is the primary airport serving the Seoul Capital Area and one of the largest and busiest airports ...

's transport center near Terminal 1. Both commuter("All-stop") and express services stop at this station. While express service directly heads to

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, commuter service stops at all station. Incheon Airport Maglev can also be accessed from the same building.

Former KTX Service

Since June 2014, KTX operated from this station with stops at

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and

towards

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and Gwangju. Before the KTX opened services at this station, there was high-leveled platform which had no use. Since this time, only this platform didn't have platform screen doors because there was a plan for a 2nd airport railroad to go there, but this plan changed to KTX. After that, KTX started to run, they have changed the empty platform to a low leveled-platform to make KTX rideable. In the same year,Incheon Airport KTX
Kojects, Tebay, Andy and Medimorec, Nikola, 2015. Retrieved 2015-11-03. KTX expanded service to Incheon Airport. Since 2018, KTX service to Incheon Airport has been suspended and the suspension became permanent in September 2018 as the line was officially abolished due to low demand and ridership. Travelling to cities other than Seoul by rail is now only available through a transfer at Seoul Station or

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by AREX or bus. In 2019, the KTX service was temporally operative again with 3 daily services to Gwangju, because of the

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. The service started on July 9, and finished on July 29.

Fares

* Express service: 8,000 won/adult, 6,900 won/child (the original intended fare was 14,300 won but was reduced to encourage usage). * Commuter Service: It depends on the station embarked, but from Seoul Station to Incheon International Airport Station it is 4,150 won as of October 2017.

Station layout

References

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