All aboard the 🚉 station emoji: a snapshot of a railway platform moment—arrivals, departures, and that hopeful “OTW!” energy. People drop it into texts to say they’re commuting, catching a train, or just in a transitional mood (“next stop: productivity”). It also gets used playfully for meetups (“see you at the station”), for life updates (“leaving the drama at the station”), and for delay memes when the timetable does you dirty. Expect it in travel threads, city-core aesthetics, and any post that screams public-transit hustle.
On Apple devices, the emoji shows a sleek train pulled into a platform under a canopy, with clean lines, cool-toned metal, and support pillars—angled slightly so you feel the platform space. You can almost hear the doors chime; it’s crisp, polished, and a little cinematic. Culturally, it nods to big-city rhythm—think Grand Central selfies, bustling Shinjuku precision, and British “signal failure” sarcasm. Bonus internet usage: paired with “hype train” jokes, Harry Potter’s Platform 9¾ references, or the classic “waiting at the station for a text back” punchline.
Definition
This is where you get on or off a train. Trains stop at train stations. All aboard!
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
1285 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:station:
Keywords
Station, Train, Subway
Previous Names:
Train Station
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Transport and Map Symbols
Unicode Range
1F680–1F6FF
Unicode Subcategory
Vehicles
Editorial Comment
Nice looking train ready for departure. Old iEmoji Name: Train on Tracks
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Vehicles
Names & Annotations
STATION = train, subway station
Symbol Information
U+1F689 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-7EC
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[駅]
KDDI
#795 駅 U+EB6D SJIS-F471 JIS-7B52
Softbank
#207 #old57 駅 U+E039 SJIS-F979
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
🚉
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
🚉
Decimal HTML Entity
🚉
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
🚉
Hex Code Point(s)
1f689
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F689
Decimal Code Point(s)
128649
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0x89
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 9A 89
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 232 211
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDE89
UTF-16 Hex
d83dde89
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56969
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F689
UTF-32 Hex
01F689
UTF-32 Dec
128649
Python Src
u"\U0001F689"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x9a\x89"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDE89"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
