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Sham Shui Po

Sham Shui Po is an area of Kowloon, Hong Kong, situated in the northwestern part of the Kowloon Peninsula, north of Tai Kok Tsui, east of Cheung Sha Wan and south of Shek Kip Mei (石硤尾).

Sham Shui Po
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The place

Sham Shui Po is an area of Kowloon, Hong Kong, situated in the northwestern part of the Kowloon Peninsula, north of Tai Kok Tsui, east of Cheung Sha Wan and south of Shek Kip Mei (石硤尾). It is located in and is the namesake of the Sham Shui Po District.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Sham Shui Po

Airports
Hong Kong (HKG), 25 km · Shenzhen Bao'an (SZX), 50 km · Macau (MFM), 62 km
  • Shenzhen → Sham Shui Po
    26 km · quickest by road, 50 min · ¥14–19
  • Nossa Senhora do Carmo → Sham Shui Po
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · $6–9
  • Zhuhai (Jinwan) → Sham Shui Po
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · ¥39–50
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sham Shui Po

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Sham Shui Po. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inHelicopter transfers can be arranged between Hong Kong International Airport and the roof-top landing pad at the Peninsula Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui.
  • Get aroundThe 5 follows Chatham Road north at first on its run from the Star Ferry pier to Fu Shan, with the 6 going northwest from the dock to Lai Chi Kok and providing access to the western side of the peninsula.
  • Get aroundRoutes 5R, 22, and 22M as well as some minibuses connect from Kai Tak Cruise Terminal to different regional subcenters where passengers can further transfer to other bus, metro, other transit services, or explore these local area.
  • Get aroundTogether with line, they cover most part of the Kowloon area, with feeder bus and green minibus available at various stations for connection into more localized area.
  • Get aroundThere are also red minibus hubs scattering around Mong Kok and Kwun Tong.

From Wikivoyage: Hong Kong/Kowloon, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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Sham Shui Po is 3 km from Kowloon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.