BurJuman station (R19/G26) is the second of the network’s two interchanges and the quieter, quicker one for most tourist transfers: it links the Red Line’s Downtown-Marina stretch with the Green Line’s old-Dubai loop, underground beneath the BurJuman Centre in Bur Dubai. Fare zone 6, on the city side of Dubai Creek.
The smarter interchange (usually)
If you are moving between the southern Red Line (Downtown, Mall of the Emirates, the Marina) and the Green Line (Al Fahidi, the souqs, Healthcare City), BurJuman is your change – transferring at Union from that direction means doubling back. The switch is a short escalator sequence inside the paid area: follow the red/green roundels, no gates, no extra fare. Direction check on the Green Line: Creek for Oud Metha and Healthcare City; e& for Al Fahidi, the Ghubaiba hub and the souqs.
Above ground: Bur Dubai’s crossroads
You surface at the BurJuman Centre mall; Meena Bazaar’s fabric-and-tailor lanes start a few minutes’ walk toward the creek, and the Karama market district is walkable the other way. Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood and the Dubai Museum are one Green Line stop away (Sharaf DG) or a 20-minute walk through old Bur Dubai that is worth doing at least once in cool months.
A note on the name
The Red Line platforms opened in 2009 as Khalid Bin Al Waleed station, and taxi drivers of a certain vintage still use that name (or just “Computer Street”, after the electronics strip on the road itself). It has been BurJuman since the Green Line arrived in 2011. Same station, three names in circulation – now you can decode all of them.
Local tips
- Zone boundary alert: BurJuman is zone 6; Union – one stop across the creek – is zone 5. That single stop is a 2-zone fare, the shortest AED 5 ride in Dubai.
- For Gold Souq trips from Downtown, change here to the Green Line toward e& and ride four stops to Gold Souq – about 15 minutes end to end.
- Rush-hour flows here are commuter-heavy but shorter-lived than Union’s; if both interchanges work for your trip at peak, BurJuman is usually the calmer one.
- The 2032 map ambiguity: some Gold Line coverage shows a future BurJuman connection – the RTA has not confirmed it, so treat any “three-line interchange” claim as premature (details on our Gold Line tracker).
The smarter interchange, usually
BurJuman is the second of the network’s two interchanges and the quieter, quicker one for most tourist transfers, linking the Red Line’s Downtown-Marina stretch with the Green Line’s old-Dubai loop underground beneath the BurJuman Centre in Bur Dubai. If you are moving between the southern Red Line and the Green Line, BurJuman is your change, because transferring at Union from that direction means doubling back. The switch is a short escalator sequence inside the paid area – follow the red or green roundels, no gates, no extra fare – with the direction check on the Green Line being Creek for Oud Metha and Healthcare City, e& for Al Fahidi, the Ghubaiba hub and the souqs.
Above ground, and a note on the name
You surface at the BurJuman Centre mall, with Meena Bazaar’s fabric-and-tailor lanes a few minutes toward the creek and the Karama market district walkable the other way; Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood is one Green Line stop away at Sharaf DG or a 20-minute walk through old Bur Dubai worth doing at least once in cool months. The Red Line platforms opened in 2009 as Khalid Bin Al Waleed station, and taxi drivers of a certain vintage still use that name, or just “Computer Street” after the electronics strip on the road above – three names in circulation for one station.
Getting here and onward
BurJuman is underground, zone 6 – and Union one stop across the creek is zone 5, so that single stop is a two-zone AED 5 fare, the shortest expensive ride in Dubai. For Gold Souq trips from Downtown, change here to the Green Line toward e& and ride four stops, about 15 minutes end to end. Rush-hour flows are commuter-heavy but shorter-lived than Union’s, so if both interchanges work for your trip at peak, BurJuman is usually the calmer one. Some 2032 maps show a future Gold Line connection here, but the RTA has not confirmed it.