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Houtong (Chinese: 猴硐車站; pinyin: Hóudòng Chēzhàn) is a railway station on the Taiwan Railways Administration Yilan line located in Ruifang District, New Taipei, Taiwan. Houtong once sat on top of Taiwan's largest coal mine, but now visitors come to see the numerous cats living in the town.[2]
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Location | Ruifang, New Taipei, Taiwan | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 25°05′14.0″N 121°49′39.7″E | ||||||||||
Owned by | Taiwan Railways Administration | ||||||||||
Operated by | Taiwan Railways Administration | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Eastern Trunk line | ||||||||||
Train operators | Taiwan Railways Administration | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 27 January 1920 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
1,654 daily (2023) [1] | |||||||||||
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In 1920, during Japanese rule, the station was established as Kōdō-eki (Japanese: 猴硐驛). In 1962, the name was modified (Chinese: 侯硐; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kâu-tōng), but returned to the original in 2013. In Taiwanese Hokkien, the station name is announced as Kau-tong-a (Chinese: 猴洞仔; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kâu-tōng-á).[3]
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