Jordan is an

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on the . It has dark green and light green livery. It is named after

Jordan Road Jordan Road () is a road in Jordan, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It spans from the West Kowloon Highway in West Kowloon, through Kwun Chung and Ferry Point to Gascoigne Road and is a major east–west road in southern Kowloon. History Jordan Roa ...

Location

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Jordan station is located in

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at the intersection of two main thoroughfares:

Nathan Road Nathan Road () is the main thoroughfare in Kowloon, Hong Kong, aligned south–north from Tsim Sha Tsui to Sham Shui Po. It is lined with shops and restaurants and throngs with visitors, and was known in the post–World War II years as the Gol ...

and

, the station eponymously named after the latter. The northern portion of

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is only a few blocks south of the station and King's Park is about 250m northeast using Jordan Road. A number of important hotels, buildings, and shopping centres are within walking distance of the station. These include the

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, Baden-Powell International House, Eaton Hotel Hong Kong, and the

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History

Contract 102 was awarded to Nishimastu Construction for the station's construction. Jordan station opened on 16 December 1979 as part of the second phase of the

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that extended the from to . When the opened on 17 May 1982, the Kwun Tong line was shortened and terminated at , the first stop north of Jordan, and Jordan was transferred to the Tsuen Wan line. In 2000, along with five other stations on the Tsuen Wan line, Jordan became one of the first stations in the MTR network to be retrofitted with

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which aid in ventilation, crowd control and passenger safety.

Station layout

Jordan is laid out similarly to many MTR stations. Passengers enter on the ground level and take escalators down to the concourse, and then one more level down to the centre island with two platforms.

Entrances/exits

* A: Yue Hwa Chinese Products Emporium
(Yue Hwa Emporium) * B: Queen Elizabeth Hospital ** B1: Novotel Nathan Road Kowloon Hong Kong / Chung Hing Hotel / Eaton Hotel ** B2:

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/ Queen Elizabeth Hospital * C: Bowring Street ** C1:

Austin Road Austin Road ( Chinese: 柯士甸道) is a road in-between Tsim Sha Tsui and Jordan, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was named after John Gardiner Austin, Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1868 to 1879. The northeast part of this street is noted fo ...

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, Tsim Sha Tsui Polise Station,

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** C2: Bowring Street, Kwun Chung Municipal Services Building * D: Austin Road * E: Prudential Centre / Pruton Prudential Hotel

References

{{Tsuen Wan Line navbox MTR stations in Kowloon Tsuen Wan line Kwun Chung Railway stations in Hong Kong opened in 1979

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History

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