Taipower Building metro station

Taipower Building

台電大樓
Taipower Building; 台電大樓
	Platform
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	台電大樓
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Taídiàn Dàlóu
Bopomofo	ㄊㄞˊ ㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄉㄚˋ ㄌㄡˊ
General information
Location	B1F 63-3 Sec. 3 Roosevelt Rd.; Zhongzheng and Da'an, Taipei; Taiwan
Operated by	Taipei Rapid Transit System;
Line(s)	Songshan–Xindian Line (G08);
Connections	Bus stop
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Other information
Station code	G08
History
Opened	11 November 1999
Passengers
	daily (December 2020)
Rank	71 out of 109 and 5 others
Services

The Taipei Metro Taipower Building station is a station on the Xindian Line located on the border in Taipei, Taiwan.

Station overview[]

Taipower Building station exit 2

Taipower Building station platform

The two-level, underground station has an island platform and five exits.^[2]^[3] Some trains from Songshan terminate here and reenter service by utilizing the pocket track south of the station.

History[]

During initial planning in 1980, the station was to be named Sanzong (三總), after the Tri-Service General Hospital which has since relocated to Neihu.

Station layout[]

Street Level	Entrance/Exit	Entrance/Exit
B1	Concourse	Lobby, information counter, automatic ticket-dispensing machines, one-way faregates
		Restrooms(North side outside fare zone, near exit 2)
B2	Platform 1	← Songshan–Xindian Line toward Songshan (G09 Guting)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Platform 2	→ Songshan–Xindian Line toward Xindian (G07 Gongguan) → → Songshan–Xindian Line termination platform →

Songshan–Xindian Line trains terminate here during non-rush hours.

Around the station[]

Taipei Cultural Mosque
Shida Park

References[]

^ "Passenger Volume at Taipei Rapid Transit Stations". Taipei Mass Rapid Transit Co., Ltd. 2021-01-15.
^ "Route Map: Taipower Building". Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation. Archived from the original on 2010-08-08. Retrieved 2010-06-14.
^ "第二章站場規劃". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. Retrieved 2011-05-15.