How deep does the metro go? The deepest station in six cities, from 36 to 58 metres

A trip down, city by city: Paris at 36.7 metres, Tokyo at 42, Singapore at 43, New York at 53, Seoul at about 55 and London at 58.5. Some of them you can type in the game, and one you can only see as a dotted line.

October 7, 2026 · 3 min read

Every city in the game has one station that goes deeper than the rest. Here they are in order, from the shallowest of the six to the deepest, with how you reach the platform and whether you can type the station in HelloSubway.

36.7 metres: Paris, Villejuif - Gustave Roussy

For decades the answer in Paris was Abbesses on Line 12, 36 metres below Montmartre, reached by lift or by a decorated staircase. In January 2025 it lost the title to Villejuif - Gustave Roussy on Line 14, whose Line 14 platforms are 36.7 metres down. The station is a round shaft 51 metres deep, and a lower level at 48.8 metres is reserved for the future Line 15 South. Both stations are in the game.

42 metres: Tokyo, Roppongi

Platform 1 of the Oedo Line at Roppongi is on the seventh basement level, 42 metres underground, the deepest of the Tokyo subway stations. Platform 2, for trains the other way, is two levels higher, at about 32 metres. You can type Roppongi on the Oedo Line and on the Hibiya Line.

43 metres: Singapore, Bencoolen

Bencoolen on the Downtown Line, under Bencoolen Street, is the deepest station in Singapore at 43 metres. It opened on 21 October 2017. The record is not expected to last: Pasir Ris on the Cross Island Line, still being built, is planned at 47 metres.

53 metres: New York, 191st Street

The deepest station in the New York subway is 191st Street on the 1 train, about 173 feet, or 53 metres, below the street. The main entrance, at the top of a hill at St. Nicholas Avenue, has only four elevators. The other way in, from Broadway at 190th Street, is a passageway three blocks long under Wadsworth Terrace and Avenue.

About 55 metres: Seoul, Sanseong

In Seoul the deepest platform is reported to be Sanseong on Line 8, at 55.56 metres, near the Namhansanseong fortress. Seoul Station on the airport railroad is 51.9 metres down. Yeouinaru on Line 5 is a different kind of record: just before the line dives under the Han River, its platform sits 27.5 metres below sea level, and you take five flights of escalators to get there. The deepest station in all of Korea is not in Seoul but in Busan, Mandeok on Line 3, at 76 metres.

58.5 metres: London, Hampstead

The deepest platforms on the London Underground are at Hampstead on the Northern line, 58.5 metres below ground, and its lift shaft, 55 metres, is the deepest on the network. Hampstead is on the Edgware branch. In the game the Northern line is typed by way of High Barnet and Bank, so Hampstead is on the dotted branch you see on the map but do not type. The Northern line guide explains how its branches work.

Even deeper, elsewhere

None of the six comes close to the deepest metro stations in the world. Hongyancun on Line 9 in Chongqing, opened in 2022, is 116 metres below the surface, and Arsenalna in Kyiv held the record for years at 105.5 metres.