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Ginza stop

MTR Light Rail stop

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ846577 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ginza (Chinese: 銀座) is an MTR Light Rail stop. It is located at ground level in the centre of Tin Shing Road in Tin Shui Wai, Yuen Long District. It began service on 7 December 2003 and belongs to Zone 4. It is the only station on the MTR network with a Japanese name, and it is one of the two Light Rail stops with announcements in Mandarin Chinese.

The stop is near +WOO (Formerly Kingswood Ginza, which gave the name of this stop) and Kingswood Villas Phase 4.

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The public source identifies “Ginza stop” as mTR Light Rail stop. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ginza, stop and Light.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ginza, stop and Light providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q846577. Authority coordinates are 22.457, 114.005. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ginza stop” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.