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]
Houtong 猴硐車站  | |||||||||||
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| Location | Ruifang, New Taipei, Taiwan | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 25°05′14.0″N 121°49′39.7″E / 25.087222°N 121.827694°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Taiwan Railways Administration | ||||||||||
| Operated by | Taiwan Railways Administration | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Eastern Trunk line | ||||||||||
| Train operators | Taiwan Railways Administration | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 27 January 1920 | ||||||||||
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| 1,851 daily (2014)[1] | |||||||||||
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Name edit
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]
Around the station edit
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Volume of Passenger and Freight Traffic" (PDF). Taiwan Railway Administration. 2015. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
- ^ "Houtong Cat Village 侯硐貌迷鄉村之遊 - Mandarin Taiwan Study Abroad". Archived from the original on 2015-07-21. Retrieved 2015-07-19.
- ^ "Entry #34122 (侯硐)". 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan]. (in Chinese and Hokkien). Ministry of Education, R.O.C. 2011.
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