{"id":54172,"date":"2026-05-18T12:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/?p=54172"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:23:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:23:15","slug":"riyadh-metro-western-station-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/riyadh-metro-western-station-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Riyadh Metro Opens Its Biggest Station With Shops, Caf\u00e9s, and a Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new station has opened on the Orange Line of Riyadh Metro, and even if your usual route doesn\u2019t pass through the area, it&#8217;s definitely worth checking out. <strong>Western Station<\/strong> is located between Ad Douh and Aishah bint Abi Bakr Street stations. It&#8217;s currently the largest stop of the network and <strong>features caf\u00e9s, a garden, and even a mosque<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Western Station is located in Dhahrat Al-Badiah in southwest Riyadh. It covers 112,000 sqm and can handle more than 60,000 passengers per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Riyadh-Metro-Western-station-1-1-e1779107688283-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Riyadh-Metro-Western-station-1-1-e1779107688283-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Riyadh-Metro-Western-station-1-1-e1779107688283-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Riyadh-Metro-Western-station-1-1-e1779107688283-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Riyadh-Metro-Western-station-1-1-e1779107688283-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Riyadh-Metro-Western-station-1-1-e1779107688283.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you find at Western Station on the Orange Line of Riyadh Metro:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Commercial spaces<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Caf\u00e9s<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Retail shops<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A garden<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A mosque that fits up to 550 worshippers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Park &amp; Ride parking with space for more than 600 vehicles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Riyadh Metro opened in late 2024, and still keeps expanding. Earlier, the Royal Commission for Riyadh City announced a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/riyadh-metro-is-heading-to-diriyah-5-more-stations-coming-to-the-red-line\/\">Red Line extension that would stretch the route all the way to Diriyah Gate<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using Riyadh Metro for the first time? Here are <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/10-riyadh-metro-fines-you-need-to-know-about-from-sar-100-to-sar-500\/\">10 Riyadh Metro fines passengers should know about<\/a><\/strong>, with penalties ranging from SAR 100 to SAR 500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new station has opened on the Orange Line of Riyadh Metro, and even if your usual route doesn\u2019t pass through the area, it&#8217;s definitely worth checking out. Western Station is located between Ad Douh and Aishah bint Abi Bakr Street stations. It&#8217;s currently the largest stop of the network and features caf\u00e9s, a garden, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":54173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-54172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"tags":[{"id":15448,"slug":"news","link":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest News"}}],"countries":[{"id":15507,"slug":"ksa","link":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/ksa\/","api_id":215,"title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia"}}],"cities":[{"id":15508,"slug":"riyadh","link":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/ksa\/riyadh\/","api_id":283,"title":{"rendered":"Riyadh"}}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}