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Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
A rare heritage protection success story, the 1920s Blue House is one of Hong Kong's last surviving wooden tenement buildings. The graceful, four-storey…
Must-see attractions in Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
A short stroll up Stone Nullah Lane takes you to a majestic Taoist temple built in 1863 to honour a god of the sea, Pak Tai. The temple, the largest on…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Hop on a tram bound for North Point, and past Fortress Hill you’ll turn into a narrow street teeming with market stalls and old tenement buildings. This…
Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Housed in a coastal fort (c 1887) that guarded the eastern sea entrance into Hong Kong harbour (via the narrow Lei Yue Mun Channel), this excellent museum…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong's Asia Society moved to these fabulous new digs in 2012, enclosing an art gallery, theatre, restaurant and gift shop all open to the public. The…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
A hillside oasis squeezed between Central and Admiralty, Hong Kong Park was built in 1991 over part of the former Victoria Barracks. Terraced landscaping…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong Island’s most famous Tin Hau (Goddess of the Sea) temple has lent its name to an entire neighbourhood, a metro station and a street. It has been…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Built on land reclaimed from the Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter, Victoria Park is the biggest patch of public greenery on Hong Kong Island. The best time to…
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
This enormous waterfront expo centre, a leading venue for large trade fairs and conventions including Art Basel Hong Kong, was built in 1988…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Central Plaza, one of Hong Kong’s tallest buildings, looks garish with its glass skin of three colours – gold, silver and terracotta. It's possible to…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
This stunning 17,000-sq-ft mansion (c 1937) owes its unique appearance to the Chinese Renaissance style associated with the 1920s when the Chinese…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
This harbour-front park on the site of the New Central Government Offices (新政府總部) is an inviting sprawl of verdant lawns where you can sunbathe while…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
The sun may have long since set on the British Empire, but this Hotchkiss 3lb naval gun still fires forlornly into history each day at noon, a colonial…
Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Built in 1846 as the home of the commander of the British forces, Flagstaff House is the oldest colonial building in Hong Kong still standing in its…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Though the HSBC (Hongkong & Shanghai Bank) Building and the Hong Kong International Airport, both by English architect Norman Foster, may be Hong Kong’s…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Lovers' Rock or Destiny’s Rock (Yan Yuen Sek) is a phallus-shaped boulder on a bluff at the end of a track above Bowen Rd. Adorned with incense and…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
This unspectacular-looking sports ground is in fact the social hub of old Wan Chai, offering a cross-section of life in the hood at any time of the day…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Crime-thriller fans should make a trip to this small museum in lush Wan Chai Gap. The protagonist in this former police station is the Hong Kong police…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Crowded and cosmopolitan, dead Hong Kong is no different from the breathing city. Tombstones jostle for space at this Christian cemetery (c 1845) located…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Nestled in a nook on the southern side of Queen’s Rd East, this dark and rather forbidding temple is built atop huge boulders that used to overlook the…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
The archive is a cinephile's heaven. Its resource centre has over 6300 reels and tapes, as well as magazines and scripts related to Hong Kong cinema…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Photography exhibitions are held three or four times a year inside this 1930s art-deco residence restored and opened as a museum by a former Hong Kong…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Like a sci-fi set from Blade Runner, this gritty, impossibly dense and vertiginous cluster of colourful apartments is one of the most instagrammed sights…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
This tiny colonial-style building served as the Wan Chai post office between 1915–92. These days it's a resource centre operated by the Environmental…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Art fans will be genuinely thrilled to discover this hidden gem of a gallery and exhibition space on the top floor of an office tower. Created and curated…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
A 6m-tall statue of Hong Kong’s symbol, the flower of the Bauhinia blakeana orchid tree, stands on the waterfront in front to mark the establishment of…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
In 1918, a few bamboo sheds for Chinese spectators collapsed and caught fire at the Happy Valley Racecourse, killing 570. The government buried their…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Housed in repurposed heritage buildings, this cultural cluster is entirely themed on the medium of comics and anime. A brief ground-floor display…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Look up past the crumbling facade and you'll see flying buttresses on the roof, like a whale carcass. The last of Hong Kong's post-WWII luxury theatres,…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong Racing Museum showcases the celebrated trainers, jockeys and horses that have thrilled the crowds at Happy Valley over the years. The British…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
You'll recognise this unusual-looking temple by its semi-octagonal hall and its verandah with Western-style balustrades, both of which have survived…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
This outlandish Anglican church was born in the 1930s through an apparent marriage between a Chinese temple and a Christian house of worship. Its red…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
One for shutterbugs, this ambitious exhibition space over two floors of a commercial building is a shrine to the golden age of film photography and its…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
The KS Lo Gallery, in a building beside the Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware at Hong Kong Park contains rare ceramics from famous kilns in ancient China…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Outside planned exhibitions, there's not much to see at this arts centre established to support local sculptors, printmakers and potters. But history…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
This teeny museum occupies two restored Hakka village houses once belonging to the Law family, all that remains of a two-centuries-old farming community…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Extending over floors four and five of the Arts Centre, due east of the Academy for the Performing Arts, are the Pao Galleries, which are known to host…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
Not so long ago the waterfront in Causeway Bay was a mass of junks and sampans huddling in the typhoon shelter for protection, but these days it’s nearly…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
A raised wooden walkway snakes through a netted area of tropical trees at this aviary at the top of Hong Kong Park, offering branch-level views of some 80…
Wan Chai & Northeast Hong Kong Island
This greenhouse in Hong Kong Park takes visitors through fairly lacklustre floral displays, including a dry 'desert' room showing cacti and other drought…
