Houtong railway station

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
Train station
Location	Ruifang, New Taipei, Taiwan
Coordinates	25°05′14.0″N 121°49′39.7″E
Owned by	Taiwan Railways Administration
Operated by	Taiwan Railways Administration
Line(s)	Yilan
Train operators	Taiwan Railways Administration
History
Opened	27 January 1920
Passengers
1,851 daily (2014)[1]
Services
Preceding station Taiwan Railways Following station Sandiaoling towards Taitung Eastern Trunk line Ruifang towards Badu

Houtong station platform

Name

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

• Houtong Cat Village

See also

• List of railway stations in Taiwan

References

1. "Volume of Passenger and Freight Traffic" (PDF). Taiwan Railway Administration. 2015. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-07-21. Retrieved 2015-07-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. "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.