木子秋心的部落格

Aug. 26th, 2009

"I already see the river."
"What? I don't know what this means."

I took the bus of 新竹客運 to Taipei from Hsinchu.
Grandma called me while the bus just came to the city but not the stop.

I took the bus many times so I knew that we were almost there, the destination.
I made the conclusion by seeing the Taipei Train Station, it was also known as Taipei Main Station as a station of MRT.

However, I was wrong.
I saw our bus turn left and continue runing instead of stop at the place I thought it should be.
We entered a building and went up slowly along the slope.
We went up as we were driving into a moutain.
The road surrounded the building while its altitude increasing.
First floor, second floor, third floor and then finally we got fourth floor.

I saw many place for buses to park.
Every place had a card showing the company, the company of the buses that should stay here.

I said thank you to the bus driver and left the bus.
All passengers walked through the door into the building which surrouded by buses and the road.
"Wow!", I was surprised.

It seemed that I was in a department store.
It was clean, light, new amd convinient.
Waiting Area at 2F(if my memory is correct. )

It might not be greater than an airport or a HSR station.
But it is still amazing to me because it is the best station for bus, the trasportation that stands for old and cheap, I have ever seen.
(OK, maybe train is the real one that stands for old.)
Elevator

LCD

Now passengers can get many useful messages about the rides by wathching these LCD monitors.
LCD

It also gives the information in English!
I had to take out my digital camera to record what I saw.
It was really hard to introduce them just by words.
Tickets Selling Area(售票亭)

It looked alike to a cinema.
And there was a symbol showing the directions of different destination that near the station.
Symbol

The symbol gives the informations where to get on the buses of different companies.
The one I just took was on the 4th floor, name 新竹.

Tourist Center

A big question mark tells that you to go there if you have any question!
Such a coincidence, I saw a passenger requires some help while I was taking this photo.
One of the Entrance

Appearance of the Station

By the way,
I missunderstood the symbol that shows the way to MRT station.
So I got the MRT station name 中山, not Taipei Main Station.

Anyway, it doesn't really matter that where I arrived at is 中山 or Taipie Main Staion.
The point is I am home now :)


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