THSR Hsinchu Station is an elevated station of Taiwan High Speed Rail

Taiwan High Speed Rail

Taiwan High Speed Rail is a high-speed rail line that runs approximately along the west coast of the Republic of China from the national capital of Taipei to the southern city of Kaohsiung...

 located in Zhubei, Hsinchu County

Hsinchu County

Hsinchu County is a county in north-western Taiwan. The population of the county is mainly Hakka; there is a Taiwanese aboriginal minority in the southeastern part of the county. Zhubei is the capital of Hsinchu, where the government office and county office is located...

, Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

. It opened for service in 2006. The THSR Hsinchu Station was designed by Taiwanese

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

 architect Kris Yao

Kris Yao

Kris Yao is a Taiwanese architect, and the founder and head architect at Artech Architects in Taipei and Shanghai.- Biography :Yao was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan...

.

Overview

The station has two side platform

Side platform

A Side platform is a platform positioned to the side of a pair of tracks at a railway station, a tram stop or a transitway. A pair of side platforms are often provided on a dual track line with a single side platform being sufficient for a single track line...

s and is the smallest station on the system. The newly opened Taiwan Railway Administration

Taiwan Railway Administration

The Taiwan Railway Administration is an agency of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of the Republic of China responsible for managing, maintaining, and running passenger and freight service on 1097 km of conventional railroad lines in Taiwan...

 Liujia Line

Liujia Line

The Liujia Line is a branch line of the Taiwan Railway Administration Western Line in Hsinchu County, Taiwan. It was built to link the Western Line to the Taiwan High Speed Rail Hsinchu Station, speeding up transit times between the two forms of rail service and, by extension, downtown Hsinchu...

 (a spur of the 12 km (7.5 mi) Neiwan Line

Neiwan Line

]The Neiwan Line is a railway branch line in Taiwan run by the Taiwan Railway Administration. It is located in Hsinchu County.-History:...

) links the high-speed rail station with the TRA Hsinchu Station

Hsinchu Station

Hsinchu Station is a railway station of Taiwan Railway Administration Western Line, Neiwan Line located at Hsinchu City, Taiwan.- Service :...

. Liujia Line opened service in 11 November 2011.

The station was designed by Kris Yao

Kris Yao

Kris Yao is a Taiwanese architect, and the founder and head architect at Artech Architects in Taipei and Shanghai.- Biography :Yao was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan...

 and constructed by Daiho Corporation. Construction began in July 2002 and was completed in October 2006, and covers a building site area of 10451 cubic metre and a total floor area of 20360 square metre.

Station layout

3F
	Side platform Side platform A Side platform is a platform positioned to the side of a pair of tracks at a railway station, a tram stop or a transitway. A pair of side platforms are often provided on a dual track line with a single side platform being sufficient for a single track line...
	Platform 1	THSR Taiwan High Speed Rail Taiwan High Speed Rail is a high-speed rail line that runs approximately along the west coast of the Republic of China from the national capital of Taipei to the southern city of Kaohsiung... toward Taipei (Taoyuan THSR Taoyuan Station THSR Taoyuan Station is an underground station of the Taiwan High Speed Rail located in Zhongli City, Taoyuan County, Taiwan. It is also known as Chingpu Station .-Overview:The underground station has two side platforms... )
	Platform 2	THSR Taiwan High Speed Rail Taiwan High Speed Rail is a high-speed rail line that runs approximately along the west coast of the Republic of China from the national capital of Taipei to the southern city of Kaohsiung... toward Zuoying (Taichung THSR Taichung Station THSR Taichung Station is an elevated station of the Taiwan High Speed Rail located in Wuri District, Taichung City, Taiwan. Transfers can be made to Xinwuri Station on the TRA Western Line. It is currently the only high speed rail station in central Taiwan prior to completion of additional... )
	Side platform Side platform A Side platform is a platform positioned to the side of a pair of tracks at a railway station, a tram stop or a transitway. A pair of side platforms are often provided on a dual track line with a single side platform being sufficient for a single track line...

2F

Connecting Level

Faregates, waiting area, nursery

Street Level

Concourse

Entrance/Exit, ticketing, automatic ticket machines, restrooms, information desk Tourism counter, stores Parking lot, transfer station, taxi stand, drop-off area

Around the station

• Hsinchu County
  Hsinchu County
  Hsinchu County is a county in north-western Taiwan. The population of the county is mainly Hakka; there is a Taiwanese aboriginal minority in the southeastern part of the county. Zhubei is the capital of Hsinchu, where the government office and county office is located...
  
   Government (Hsinchu County Administrative Area)
• Hsinchu County Stadium
• National Highway No. 1
  National Highway No. 1 (Taiwan)
  National Highway No. 1 is the first freeway in Taiwan. It begins in Keelung City at the intersection of Ziao 2nd Road and Jhong 4th Road and ends in Kaohsiung City at the intersection of Jhongshan 4th Road and Yugang Road, giving it a total length of 372.8 km...
  
  
• Provincial Highway No. 68
  Provincial Highway No. 68 (Taiwan)
  Provincial Highway No. 68 is an expressway, which begins in Hsinchu City at Nanliao on the Provincial Highway No. 15 and ends in Zhudong on Zhongfeng Road .-Intersections with other Freeways and Expressways:...
  
  
• Hsinchu Sheraton Hotel
• Biomedical Research Park
• Knowledge-based Economy Industrial Park
• Central Park
• Zhubei Activity Park
• Zhubei Arena
• Guangming Shopping Circle
• Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park
• National Chiao Tung University
  National Chiao Tung University
  National Chiao Tung University is a public university located in Hsinchu, Taiwan. It is recognized as one of the most prestigious and selective universities in Taiwan and is renowned for its research and teaching excellence in electrical engineering, computer science, engineering, management, and...
  
  
• National Taiwan University
  National Taiwan University
  National Taiwan University is a national co-educational university located in Taipei, Republic of China . In Taiwan, it is colloquially known as "Táidà" . Its main campus is set upon 1,086,167 square meters in Taipei's Da'an District. In addition, the university has 6 other campuses in Taiwan,...
  
  , Zhubei Campus
• National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
  National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
  The National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, commonly referred to as NTUST or Taiwan Tech, is a public/national technological university located in the Taipei City, Republic of China. Taiwan Tech was established in 1974, as the first and the leading higher education institution of its...
  
  , Zhubei Campus
• Ecological Park
• Fruit Park
• Liujia Junior High School
• Liujia Elementary School
• Taiwan Hakka Cultural Center