Daan Park metro station

The Taipei Metro Daan Park station is a metro station on the Tamsui–Xinyi line located beneath Xinyi Rd, Sec. 3 between Xinsheng South Rd. and Jianguo South Rd. in Da'an District, Taipei, Taiwan.^[2] It is located at the northern end of the Daan Forest Park for which it is named. The station was opened on 24 November 2013.^[3]

Daan Park R06 大安森林公園
Station concourse
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	大安森林公園
Simplified Chinese	大安森林公园
Literal meaning	Daan Forest Park
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Dà'ān Sēnlín Gōngyuán Wade–Giles Ta⁴-an¹ Sen¹-lin² Kung¹-yuan² Hakka Pha̍k-fa-sṳ Thai-ôn Sêm-lìm Kûng-yèn Southern Min Tâi-lô Tāi-an sim-lîm kong-hn̂g
General information
Location	Xinyi Rd., Sec. 3 Da'an, Taipei Taiwan
Operated by	Taipei Metro
Line(s)	Tamsui–Xinyi line (R06)
Construction
Structure type	Underground
History
Opened	24 November 2013
Passengers
17,353 daily (December 2020)[1] (Ranked 84th of 109)
Services
Preceding station Taipei Metro Following station Dongmen towards Tamsui or Beitou Tamsui–Xinyi line Daan Terminus or towards Xiangshan

Station overview

Station exterior

Station lobby at night

The two-level, underground station has an island platform, a naturally-lit hall and a sunken garden.^[4] The naturally-lit hall has two light towers and a light hallway. The sunken garden connects to the hall and has a ring-shaped corridor, pond, cascade and a circular plaza.^[5] The station also has an underground parking lot.

An earlier draft for the station's design did not include the waterfall and sunken, ring-shaped corridor design,^[6] though it still maintained the sunken plaza within the station lobby.^[7]

Construction

The station is 226 m (741 ft) long and 22 m (72 ft) wide and excavated to a depth of 19 m (62 ft). It has six entrances, three elevators for the disabled and two vent shafts.^[2] One of the entrances is integrated into a joint development building. The 34-story building is incorporated into exit D and was completed in December 2010.^[8] Due to station construction, old banyan trees originally planted on the sidewalk along Xinyi Road were replanted elsewhere within the park.^[9]

Design

The design theme for the station is "Forest Revolution: the City and Park Conversing".^[10]

Station layout

Street Level	Entrance/Exit	Entrance/Exit
B1	Scenic Concourse	Lobby, information desk, automatic ticketing dispensing machines, one-way faregates Sunlight Hall, Sunken Garden Restrooms (Inside fare zone, outside fare zone near exit 6)
B2	Platform 1	← Tamsui–Xinyi line toward Tamsui / Beitou (R07 Dongmen)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Platform 2	→ Tamsui–Xinyi line toward Xiangshan / Daan (R05 Daan) →

First and Last Train Timing

The first and last train timing at Daan Park station ^[11] is as follows:

Destination	First Train		Last Train
	Mon − Fri	Sat − Sun and P.H.	Daily
Tamsui–Xinyi line
R28 Tamsui	06:01	06:01	00:26
R02 Xiangshan	06:08	06:08	00:50

Around the station

• Daan Forest Park
• Taipei Grand Mosque

References

1. "Passenger Volume at Taipei Rapid Transit Stations". Taipei Mass Rapid Transit Co., Ltd. 2021-01-15.
2. "捷運系統信義線簡介" (PDF). Department of Rapid Transit Systems, Taipei City Government. 2007-12-01. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-11-03. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
3. "Second Stage of Taipei MRT (Approved MRT Lines)". Department of Rapid Transit Systems, TCG. 2010-03-12. Archived from the original on 2012-03-27. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
4. "馬市長視導信義線大安森林公園站下凹庭園工程". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. 2006-11-01. Archived from the original on 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2010-06-23.
5. "大安森林公園站的溫馨願景". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. 2010-01-01. Archived from the original on 2011-02-28. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
6. "From Concept Creation to Innovation: Examples of Planning and Design for the Taipei MRT's Daan Park Station (R09)" (PDF). Department of Rapid Transit Systems. February 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-08-04. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
7. "Daan Park Station on the Xinyi Line". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. 2004-04-01. Archived from the original on 2012-08-04. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
8. "Joint Development Building at Daan Park MRT Station Completed". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. 2011-04-01. Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
9. "Old Banyans Moves to a New Location". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. 2011-07-28. Archived from the original on 2012-08-04. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
10. "信義線大安森林公園站下凹式庭園之 整體規劃與設計". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. 2007-04-01. Archived from the original on 2010-09-17. Retrieved 2010-06-23.
11. "Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation - Metro Service First & Last Trains". Retrieved 2019-07-29.

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