Wong Tai Sin station
MTR metro station
Wong Tai Sin (Chinese: 黃大仙; Cantonese Yale: Wòngdaaihsīn) is a station on the Hong Kong MTR Kwun Tong line. It is named after the Wong Tai Sin Temple, which is managed by Taoist organisation Sik Sik Yuen.
Livery
The station's livery is yellow to reflect the character "Wong" in Chinese (黃), which means "yellow".
History
Hip Hing Construction Limited won Contract 204 for the station's construction. Wong Tai Sin station opened simultaneously with the Kwun Tong line on 1 October 1979.
Station layout
Platforms 1 and 2 share the same island platform.
Entrances/exits
A/E: Lung Cheung Road (West Exit)
B1/B2: Lung Cheung Road (East Exit)
B3: Wong Tai Sin Temple, Temple Mall North
C1: Ching Tak Street/Lung Cheung Road Junction
C2: Ching Tak Street
D1: San Po Kong
D2: Ching Tak Street, Bus Terminus
D3: Temple Mall South
Incidents
On 7 September 2023, the station experienced severe flooding due to a torrential rainstorm, causing most of the Kwun Tong Line to be temporarily suspended.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Wong Tai Sin station” is mTR metro station. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Wong, station and metro, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “mTR metro station” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q838377. VIAF identifies the subject as 145565777. Authority coordinates are 22.342, 114.194. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979 and 2023.
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This entry incorporates text from “Wong Tai Sin station” 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.