Hong Kong Sights

Nathan Road

#122 of 890 things to do in Hong Kong

#2308 of 21665 things to do in Asia

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    • Tsim Sha Tsui Kowloon
  • Transport
    • Tsim Sha Tsui

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Lonely Planet review for Nathan Road

Kowloon’s ‘Golden Mile’ may sound romantic, but in truth its main thoroughfare (named after former Sir Matthew Nathan) is a bit of a traffic- and pedestrian-choked scrum of electronics shops and tenement blocks. It is nonetheless an iconic Hong Kong scene stacked with seedy guesthouses awkwardly rubbing shoulders with top-end hotels, touts selling ‘copy’ watches and tailors plying their trade on street corners. If that makes it sound edgy, in reality it is completely safe – which is just as well since you won’t be able to avoid criss-crossing it if you spend any time in the area. Anyone who chooses to stay at Chungking Mansions, Mirador Mansion or Golden Crown Guest House will have this frenetic scene at their very doorstep.

 

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    Hong Kong highlight

    melyuan recommends this,

    Don't breathe too deep - the diesel fumes may kill you - but it's worth it for the jewellery shops, hawkers for tailors, amazing neon, shops! shops! shops! and just dazzling array of people all engaged in _something_. This is the hustling, bustling, wheeling, dealing, heart of Kowloon.

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    Frenetic would be an understatement

    lp_agray does not recommend this,

    Chungking Mansions is more than frenetic. Approaching the outside, you're jostled and hustled to attend curry houses, stores and hostels you have no intention of visiting as you make your way to the elevators. The sensation is not unlike being a hot chip dangled before a bunch of seagulls. For the unprepared and fatigued, it can be confronting but it can also be fascinating to see one of the most brashly diverse places on earth.

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