There are many interchange stations on Hong Kong’s MTR and most offer a convenient connection between trains, but there is one notable exception – that between the Tuen Ma and Tsuen Wan lines at Mei Foo.
We start our journey on the southbound Tuen Ma line platform.
Head up the escalators.
To the concourse.
Then along the first transfer passageway.
Passing a long row of shops.
Now for a second set of escalators.
Down this time.
We’re back at ground level and exit ‘D’, but we still have further to go.
The walls turn from white to blue as the third set of escalators take us underground.
The transfer passageway turns a corner.
And now a fourth set of escalators.
They take use to the mosaic tiled Tsuen Wan line concourse.
Where a fifth set of escalators bring us down to the Tsuen Wan line platforms.
Confused? Well, here is a map of the station.
Alternatively, you can just follow the well designed wayfinding signage throughout the station.
Footnote
Opened in 1982 on the MTR Tsuen Wan Line, Mei Foo became an interchange station in 2003 with the opening of the KCR West Rail Line, and originally operated as two separate stations, until the 2007 merger of the KCR and MTR rail systems.
This merger of the station created issues for local residents who used the transfer passageway as an undercover route to the local shops, so ‘Paid Passageway Validators’ were introduced so they could pass through the paid area without having to pay a fare.
