Dabaotai station
Beijing Subway station in Fengtai, Beijing
Dabaotai station (Chinese: 大葆台站; pinyin: Dàbǎotái Zhàn) is a station on Fangshan Line of the Beijing Subway, located in Fengtai District at the southern entrance of Beijing World Park. The station was the northern terminus of the line until it was extended one stop to Guogongzhuang on December 31, 2011.
Station layout
The station has 2 underground side platforms.
Exits
There are 4 exits, lettered A, B, C, and D. Exits A and D are accessible.
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This entry incorporates text from “Dabaotai 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.