Tseung Kwan O

Tseung Kwan O (also called Cheung Kwan O or Junk Bay) is a bay in Sai Kung District, New Territories, Hong Kong. In the northern tip of the bay lies the Tseung Kwan O Village.

The Tseung Kwan O New Town, one of the nine new towns in Hong Kong, was mainly built on reclaimed land in the northern half of the bay. The current population as of 2011 is about 368,000.

Name

In Cantonese, Tseung Kwan (將軍) means the "general" of an army, and O (澳) means "bay". Therefore, Tseung Kwan O literally means "general's Bay".

The exact origin of the name Tseung Kwan O is unknown, but it is said to be named in honour of a Ming Dynasty soldier who visited Tseung Kwan O at some point. Another theory is that the name was chosen in the 17th century, when naval battles were fought against pirates from Japan at Tseung Kwan O. Yet another theory is that the pronunciation of "將軍" can sound like "Junk Wan" to the ears of English speakers; wan is also a transliteration of the Chinese word for "bay" (灣).

The current town center of Tseung Kwan O stands on reclaimed land. The English name Junk Bay was said to be derived from the existence of junks in the bay, and the reclamation land based on the landfill . The first landfill was opened in 1978, decades after Junk Bay was named. The Fat Tong Chau (Junk Island) is in the southeastern part of the bay.

Tseung Kwan O Station

Tseung Kwan O is a station on MTR's Tseung Kwan O Line located at the town centre of the Tseung Kwan O New Town in Hong Kong. The previous station is Tiu Keng Leng and the line splits after this station to LOHAS Park and Hang Hau. The entrances to the station are on Tong Chun Street, Popcorn Mall and Tong Yin Street. A public transport interchange is located outside the station. The architecture firm Aedas designed the station.

Station layout

Station concourse

Entrances/exits

A1: Tseung Kwan O Plaza / Transport Interchange

Transport Connections

A transport interchange is found by exiting the station through Exits A1 or A2.

Minibus Route

To Clearwater Bay:

Bus Routes

To East Tsim Sha Tsui:

To Sai Kung:

To Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate:

Airport Express

There are three Citybus lines going from Tseung Kwan O MTR station to Airport.

E22A—Tseung Kwan O (Po Lam)

E22B—Tseung Kwan O (Po Lam) rush hour service

Tseung Kwan O Line

The Tseung Kwan O Line (TKL) is one of the eleven lines of the MTR system in Hong Kong, indicated with the colour purple. It is currently 12.3-kilometre (7.6 mi) long, taking 15 minutes to travel throughout the entire line.

The line runs from North Point on the Hong Kong Island to the new town of Tseung Kwan O. It bifurcates east of Tseung Kwan O Station into two branches, one northward to Po Lam and one southward to LOHAS Park. The Tseung Kwan O Depot at LOHAS Park is responsible for the maintenance of the line's rolling stock.

During the morning peak period, the Tseung Kwan O Line uses 15 trains to maintain a frequency of 2.7 minutes.

Route description

Tseung Kwan O Line is the first MTR line with no tracks on viaducts. The stations of Yau Tong, Po Lam and LOHAS Park are at the ground level, but are completely shielded to minimise noise to the surrounding development. The rest of the line has its tracks located underground.

The western terminus of the line is North Point, providing cross-platform interchange together with the neighbouring station of Quarry Bay. East of Quarry Bay the line passes under Victoria Harbour to Yau Tong Station, a station serving the East Kowloon neighbourhood of the same name, using the rail tunnel of Eastern Harbour Crossing. From Yau Tong, the line passes Black Hill Tunnels to enter Tseung Kwan O New Town at Tiu Keng Leng.