Chigang Pagoda station
Chigang Pagoda station is a station on Line 12 of the Guangzhou Metro. It is located underground on the east side of the intersection of Yizhou Road and Yiyuan Road in Guangzhou's Haizhu District. It opened on 29 June 2025.
Station layout
This station is a four-storey underground station, with a gross floor area of 64,234 meters. The ground level is the exit, and it is surrounded by Yiyuan Road, Yizhou Road, Canton Tower Road, Canton Tower Plaza, Chigang Pagoda,, Pearl River Dijing Garden and other nearby buildings. The first floor is the transfer floor between the concourse and exits and the reserved Yizhou Road sunken tunnel project, the second floor is reserved for commercial facilities, the third floor is the concourse, and the fourth floor is the platform for Line 12.After the completion of the station, the open space above the ground will be rebuilt into a parkland connecting to the Canton Tower, and the roadway of the original Yizhou Road will be moved underground, creating a sunken tunnel.
This station is a cultural themed station on Line 12, with the theme of "Heart of Guangzhou", the walls of the station are made of blue and white gradient glass curtain walls, and the station hall is equipped with LED light columns and decorative columns surrounded by sails.
Concourse
There are automatic ticket machines and an AI customer service center at the concourse. There are elevators, escalators and stairs in the fare-paid area for passengers to access the two platforms of Line 12 respectively.There are convenience stores, bakeries and pastry shops and a variety of self-service facilities in the concourse. There is an automated external defibrillator near the station control center, which is near Exit B.
Platform
The station has two island platforms side by side located under Yizhou Road, shared by Line 12 and. Line 12 uses Platforms 1 and 2 on the inner side, while the outer platforms reserved for Line 28 are closed by a decorative false wall and will not be used until Line 28 is constructed. Therefore, in the eyes of passengers, the station is only equipped with a pair of side platforms. Both platforms of the station have toilets and a nursery room at the west end of the station.In addition, there is a storage track at the western end of the Line 12 platforms.
Entrances/exits
The station has 2 points of entry/exit, with Exit B being accessible via elevator.A: Yiyuan Road, Canton Tower, Chigang Pagoda, Canton Tower station Exits A and BB: Yizhou Road,Usage
The station is adjacent to cultural attractions such as Canton Tower and Guangzhou Museum of Art, as well as commercial facilities such as Canton Tower Plaza. Therefore, after the opening of the station, it also attracted passengers to use the station to enter/exit and also diverted the flow of passengers in and out of Canton Tower station towards the northeast corner of this station. Before the station opening, the operator also mentioned that there will be more passengers entering and leaving the station during the summer travel period in 2025, and additional volunteers will be deployed at that time, as well as special personnel will be arranged to guide at key locations.History
In 2008, when Guangzhou solicited opinions on a new round of rail transit network planning plans, the new Line 8 of Plan A and Line 12 of Plan B were set up on the south side of the former Chigang Pagoda Station. In the 2010 plan, the lines of the above two schemes were adjusted to Line 12 and Line 19, which intersected at Chigang Pagoda Station and provide interchange with Line 3. In 2017, Line 12 was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission, and the construction of Lingnan Square station was implemented. Later, the line along the river in Haizhu District of Line 19 was changed to be used by the express, so the design of the station was revised and the connecting line between the two lines was cancelled.In response to the construction of the station, the construction party began to enclose part of the green space of Canton Tower South Square in Chigang Pagoda Park from November 2019 to cooperate with the preliminary work of the station construction, then enclosed the section from the north side of the intersection of Youlin East Street on Yizhou Road to the north side of Chigang North Road from midnight on 30 May 2020. In April 2024, the station roof slab was sealed. The station completed the "three rights" transfer on 30 April 2025.
The open space between the station and the Canton Tower was originally named "Lingnan Square", so the station was named Lingnan Square station during the planning and construction phase. In August 2024, the preliminary names of the stations on the east section of Line 12 were announced, and the station will be renamed Guangzhou Art Museum station according to the new on the southeast side of the station. Since the name is only taken from the first of the planned "three museums and one venue", and since Line 12 passes through the old art museum at and on Ersha Island, the naming scheme has sparked public discussion. There is also support for the use of the station name from the closer Canton Tower Plaza or Chigang Pagoda, which has a longer history. The Civil Affairs Bureau responded that the Canton Tower Plaza, which is a commercial building, cannot be used in the name of the station, but buildings such as Chigang Pagoda, Guangzhou Museum of Art, and Guangzhou Museum can be considered for inclusion in the scope of word adoption. Finally, in April 2025, the station was named Chigang Pagoda station.
The station opened on 29 June 2025.