Draft:Tosari (Transjakarta)

Tosari is a TransJakarta bus rapid transit station located at Jalan M.H. Thamrin, Menteng Village (Kelurahan), Menteng, Central Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia, which serves corridor 1 that runs from north to south. The station is named after a village with the same name at Tengger Mountains near Mount Bromo in East Java.

History
Tosari BRT station began its operational on 15 January 2004, along with the soft operational launch of Transjakarta Corridor 1. The commercial operation was started on 1 February 2004.

On 6 January 2014, this station was expanded to accommodate passengers from the closed Bundaran HI bus Station due to the construction of the Jakarta MRT. The new building of Tosari station BRT shifted slightly to the north. The construction of the new building has been seen since July 2019. The second generation of the Tosari BRT station started operating on 1 November 2019.

On 16 January 2020, Tosari BRT station began to serve as the temporary terminus of corridor 4 due to the construction of the Dukuh Atas LRT Station until it was returned to its original terminus, Dukuh Atas 2 on 20 May 2023.



On 15 April 2022, the new building of the station was closed for revitalization along with 10 other BRT Stations to be revitalized. The operational of the station was temporarily moved to its old building. Besides that, a shuttle bus route between the National Monument (Monas)–Semanggi (1ST) was available until 11 September 2022.

As of 26 December 2022, the third generation of Tosari bus station has resumed operations serving boarding and alighting passengers.

Building and layout
The third generation Tosari BRT station have two floors with an artistic and iconic design which resembles a cruise ship like the revitalized Bundaran HI bus station. On the second floor there is a viewing deck that towards to skyscrapers at Jalan Jenderal Sudirman at the south side and the Selamat Datang Monument at the north side, as well as the Bundaran HI bus station. Other facilities on the second floor are toilets, passenger waiting rooms, and commercial areas.

Places nearby

 * Thamrin Nine
 * UOB Plaza
 * Autograph Tower
 * Grand Indonesia
 * BCA Tower
 * Hotel Indonesia
 * Mandarin Oriental Jakarta
 * Sudirman railway station
 * 🇩🇪 Embassy of Germany
 * Graha Mandiri
 * Deutsche Bank
 * 🇧🇪 Embassy of Belgium
 * The City Tower
 * 🇨🇱 Embassy of Chile

Incidents
On 8 October 2020, both old and new buildings of the Tosari BRT Station was burned by the demonstrators during the Omnibus law protest, along with other stations on corridor 1, such as Karet Sudirman, Bundaran HI, Sarinah (now renamed M.H. Thamrin), and Harmoni Central.