Soyosan Station is a ground-level metro station on Line 1 of the Seoul Subway in Sangbongam Dong, Dongducheon, South Korea. It is named after the nearby Soyosan (587 m),[3] a mountain beside the U.S. Army base Camp Casey. It is on this mountain, at the Jajae'am Hermitage, that the Buddhist Saint Wonhyo is said to have reached enlightenment.[4]
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| Revised Romanization | Soyosannyeok | ||||||||||||||
| McCune–Reischauer | Soyosannyŏk | ||||||||||||||
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| Location | 126-3 Sangbongam-dong, 2925 Pyeonghwa-ro, Dongducheon-si, Gyeonggi-do | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°56′55″N 127°03′39″E | ||||||||||||||
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| Line(s) | Gyeongwon Line | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 (2 side platforms) | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Connections | Bus Station | ||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Aboveground | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | December 23, 1975 (1975-12-23) | ||||||||||||||
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| Based on Jan–Dec 2012. KR: 148[1] Line 1: 8,730[2] operator= Korail | |||||||||||||||
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The station opened for business on January 11, 1976,[5] and the station building was completed on September 21, 1982. This building was closed twenty-four years later, on May 7, 2006, and a temporary building erected in its place. Meanwhile, Line 1 of the Seoul Subway was being extended north through the city of Dongducheon, and Soyosan became its northern terminus, with a new station building completed, on December 15, 2006.[6]
| No. | Line | Train | Bound |
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| 1 | Gyeongwon Line | Seoul Subway Line 1 | Dongducheon • Uijeongbu • Cheongnyangni • Incheon |
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| Line 1 | 2226 | 2830 | 3079 | 3219 | [7] |
| No. | Direction | Bus |
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| 1 | Soyosan / Soyo Branch Fire Substation / Soyosan Pleasure Ground / Jayusuhopeyonghwa Museum | 36 36-5 37 39 39-1 39-4 39-5 50-5 53 53-1 53-2 53-3 53-5 53-6 53-7 53-8 53-9 54 |
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Gyeongwon Line | |
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