Chau Tau
Chau Tau is a village in the New Territories of Hong Kong, in the San Tin area of Yuen Long District.
Chau Tau is a village in the New Territories of Hong Kong, in the San Tin area of Yuen Long District. There is a new railway called the Lok Ma Chau Spur Line linking it to mainland China. It is near Lok Ma Chau.
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Worth seeing in and around Chau Tau
5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Chang Fu Jin Mao Tower
Shenzhen CFC Changfu Centre is a supertall skyscraper in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It is 304.3 metres tall.
3.4 km · building in Shenzhen, China · Wikipedia - 02Lo Wu Correctional Institution
Lo Wu Correctional Institution is a medium-security prison in Lo Wu, New Territories, Hong Kong housing adult women prisoners and remands. It is the largest women's prison in Hong Kong.
3.1 km · building in North District, China · Wikipedia - 03Lo Wu Bridge
The Lo Wu Bridge is a footbridge and steel railway truss bridge across Sham Chun River linking Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Due to the course of widening the river section at Lo Wu, it is necessary to reconstruct the Lo Wu railway bridge as its span is not long enough for the widened river section.
4 km · bridge in People's Republic of China · Wikipedia - 04Lok Ma Chau Control Point
Lok Ma Chau Control Point is an immigration control point in Lok Ma Chau, Yuen Long District, New Territories, Hong Kong, which is on the border between Hong Kong and mainland China. It opened in 1989 as the third road crossing between the then British dependent territory and China.
1.1 km · building in Lok Ma Chau Control Point, China · Wikipedia - 05Tai Fu Tai Mansion
Tai Fu Tai Mansion is a residence located in Wing Ping Tsuen, San Tin near Lok Ma Chau, north of Yuen Long, Hong Kong.
1.1 km · historic residential building in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Chau Tau
- Airports
- Hong Kong (HKG), 28 km · Shenzhen Bao'an (SZX), 32 km · Macau (MFM), 64 km
- Stations
- Lo Wu station, 3.9 km · Lok Ma Chau station, 2.1 km · Futian Checkpoint Station, 2.4 km · Fumin Station, 3.3 km · Futian Port, 1.8 km
- Nossa Senhora do Carmo → Chau Tau67 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · $7–10
- Zhuhai (Jinwan) → Chau Tau86 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · ¥43–60
- Guangzhou (Huadu) → Chau Tau138 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · ¥65–90
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Chau Tau
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 Chau Tau. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThis visa is available at some land entry points from Hong Kong such as Lo Wu/Luohu and Lok Ma Chau/Huanggang (which is not Lok Ma Chau Spur Line/Futian where the MTR East Rail Line terminates, you get there with shuttle bus (HK$10) from Lok Ma Chau (San Tin) terminus, the same shuttle will then take you across no man's land to Shenzhen after HK border check, so keep the ticket), Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport (only for passengers arriving from Macau by helicopter) and the Shekou ferry terminal.
- Get inVisa-on-arrival is only available for those arriving on the helicopter service from Macau.
- Get inFerry from the airport ferry terminal (Fuyong Ferry Terminal) to Hong Kong, Macau, Zhongshan, or Zhuhai.
- Get inA free shuttle bus connects the ferry terminal to the airport itself.
- Get inFuyong is also served by a direct ferry service to Hong Kong International Airport which allows you to skip Hong Kong immigration, making this a convenient option if you need to connect between flights at the two airports.
From Wikivoyage: Shenzhen, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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Next door to Chau Tau
Chau Tau is 5 km from Shenzhen, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Frontier Closed Arearestricted border area of Hong Kong3.1 km
- Lok Ma Chauhuman settlement1.1 km
- Ho Sheung Heungarea of Hong Kong2.6 km
- Ngau Tam Meivillage in Hong Kong3.9 km
- Tsung Pak Longvillage of Hong Kong3.7 km
- Kam Tsinvillage and area in North District, New Territories, Hong Kong3 km