Hwaseo station

Hwaseo Station (Korean: 화서역) is a ground-level metro station on line 1 of the Seoul Subway in north-west Suwon, South Korea.

P154 화서 (스타필드수원) Hwaseo (Starfield Suwon)
Station Sign
Korean name
Hangul	화서역
Hanja	華西驛
Revised Romanization	Hwaseo-yeok
McCune–Reischauer	Hwasŏ-yŏk
General information
Location	464 Hwaseo 2-dong, 692 Deokyeongdaero, Paldal-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do[1][2]
Operated by	Korail
Line(s)	Line 1
Platforms	2
Tracks	4
Construction
Structure type	Aboveground
Key dates
August 15, 1974[1][2]	Line 1 opened
Passengers
(Daily) Based on Jan-Dec of 2012. Line 1: 17,376[3]

Hwaseo offers access to several important academic, governmental and cultural locations including Hwaseong Fortress, Manseok Park, the Korean National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology and Suwon Immigration Office, as well as being the nearest station to Seoho, a sizeable lake and park.

Travel time from Hwaseo to central Seoul on Line 1 is approximately 80 minutes, with slightly shorter journey times possible by transferring to Line 4 at Geumjeong. To save time when exiting, you should try to be in the front subway cars when traveling north, towards Seoul, and in the back subway cars when traveling south, towards Suwon and Cheonan.

It is planned to become a transfer station to the Shinbundang Line in 2027.

References

1. "화서역" (in Korean). Doopedia. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
2. "화서역" (in Korean). KRIC. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
3. Monthly Number of Passengers between Subway Stations Archived October 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Korea Transportation Database, 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-15.

Preceding station	Seoul Metropolitan Subway			Following station
Sungkyunkwan University towards Uijeongbu or Kwangwoon University		Line 1		Suwon towards Sinchang or Seodongtan

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