Tucheng metro station

Tucheng

BL03/LG11 土城
Tucheng; BL03/LG11 土城
	Tucheng station platform
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	土城站
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Tǔchéng Zhàn
Bopomofo	ㄊㄨˇ ㄔㄥˊ ㄓㄢˋ
Hakka
Pha̍k-fa-sṳ	Thú-sàng Cham
Southern Min
Tâi-lô	Thóo-siânn Tsam
General information
Location	B1F, No. 105, Sec. 1, Jincheng Rd.; Tucheng, New Taipei; Taiwan
Operated by	Taipei Rapid Transit System;
Line(s)	Bannan Line (BL03);
Connections	Bus stop
Construction
Structure type	Underground
History
Opened	31 May 2006
Passengers
	daily (December 2020)
Rank	Undetermined
Services

The Taipei Metro Tucheng station is a station on the Bannan Line located in Tucheng District, New Taipei, Taiwan.^[2] It will soon be a transfer station with the Wanda–Zhonghe–Shulin line in 2028, where the station is aboveground instead of underground.

Station layout[]

Street Level	Entrance/Exit	Entrance/Exit
B1	Concourse	Lobby, automatic ticket dispensing machine, information desk, one-way faregates Restrooms (North side, outside fare zone near exit 3)
B2	Platform 1	← Bannan Line towards Nangang Exhib Center (BL04 Haishan)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Platform 2	→ Bannan Line towards Dingpu (BL02 Yongning) →

Tucheng station exit 1.

The two-level, underground station with an island platform configuration and has three exits. The station is located underneath Jincheng Rd. at its intersection with Heping Rd.

It will be a transfer station with the Wanda-Shulin Line, scheduled to open in 2028.

History[]

31 May 2006: Opened for service with the opening of the segment from Fuzhong to Yongning.
28 September 2018: Automatic platform gates were installed on Blue Line, as last batch of installation make all stations on Taipei Metro have a form of platform doors.
2028: The Wanda-Shulin Line became a transfer line.

Public art[]

Public art for the station consists of a faux archeological piece titled "The Legend of Gold Town". Produced through high-tech means, the piece is displayed similarly to how excavated artifacts are displayed. It depicts historical diversity and the development of the Tucheng area and represent the creativity and local characteristics of Tucheng.^[3]