Muxuyuan station
Nanjing Metro station
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Muxuyuan (Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum) Station is a railway station on Line 2 of Nanjing Metro. It started operations on 28 May 2010 along with the rest of Line 2.[1][2]
Muxuyuan 明孝陵·苜蓿园  | |||||||||||
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The Line 2 platform of Muxuyuan station | |||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 明孝陵·苜蓿园站 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 明孝陵·苜蓿園站 | ||||||||||
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| Other names | Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum | ||||||||||
| Location | Xuanwu District, Nanjing, Jiangsu China | ||||||||||
| Line | Line 2 | ||||||||||
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Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 219 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 28 May 2010 | ||||||||||
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Statistics
It has a length of 199.68 m (655.1 ft), a width of 20.8 m (68 ft), a height of 14.46 m (47.4 ft), and it covers an area of 11,015 m2 (118,560 sq ft).[3]
Decorations
Since Line 2 of the Nanjing Metro is centered on Chinese traditional festivals, the theme of this station's decorations is the Qixi Festival.[4] At 700 m2 (7,500 sq ft), It features the largest painting area of any Line 2 station,[4] if not the entire Nanjing Metro system. Several traditional romance stories can be seen if one looks up at the ceiling, such as Niulang and Zhinü, Houyi and Chang'e and so on.[5]
In April 2013, the station became the second in the Nanjing Metro system, after Xuezelu, to install a set of "musical stairs" leading up from the station platform.[6] The stairs, christened "music stairs" (音乐楼梯), were intended to play chords from the Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto whenever passengers would use the stairs. However, repeated wear and tear on the steps has caused loss of this unique functionality.[7]
Gallery
Entrance
Concourse and platform area
Painting of Zhinü on the ceiling
"Music stair" leading up from the platform
