Passengers await an approaching train on the platform of Xinpu Minsheng Station on the Yellow Line. (CNA photo April 9, 2020)
BL18
Y17

Regularly among the top 10 stations from the start

Once a terminal station at the west end of the Blue Line when it was opened in 2000, Xinpu Station was the second most-used station before the Blue Line further extended west to Yongning. It still remains in the top 10 with passenger traffic that often tops key transit stations, such as Zhongxiao Xinsheng Station connecting the Blue and Orange lines.

The area surrounding Xinpu Station has a good living environment, with plenty of schools, markets and parks, and is one of the preferred areas among people who want to live in New Taipei.

Xinpu Station is in New Taipei's Banqiao District, which has a population of 557,183, the highest among all 368 district and township level administrative areas in Taiwan, and many of them live close to the station.

Xinpu is also one of the stations that has more passengers enter than exit it because it is more residential. The nearby Fuzhong and Far Eastern Hospital stations on the Blue Line and the Qilian and Qiyan stations on the Red Line all share the same characteristic, according to Taipei Metro.

Xinpu Station also attracts passengers from nearby Xinzhuang District, which has the Orange Line running through it. Many people from Xinzhuang tend to take a bus to catch the Blue Line if they are headed to Taipei Main Station or Xinyi District, which are both on the Blue Line, because taking the Orange Line usually takes longer.

2019 ranking
7
Changes in passenger traffic: Xinpu