Skip to content
Mixroutes
Village of Hong Kong

Kau Tam Tso

Kau Tam Tso is a village in North District, in the New Territories of Hong Kong.

Kau Tam Tso
Kau Tam Tso · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kau Tam Tso is a village in North District, in the New Territories of Hong Kong.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kau Tam Tso

4 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.

  1. 01
    Pat Sin Leng

    Pat Sin Leng is a mountain range in the northeast New Territories of Hong Kong, located within the Pat Sin Leng Country Park. The name Pat Sin Leng literally means "Ridge of the Eight Immortals", who are eight well-known xian in Chinese mythology.

    3.9 km · mountain range in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Plover Cove Reservoir

    Plover Cove Reservoir, located within Plover Cove Country Park, in the northeastern New Territories, is the largest reservoir in Hong Kong by surface areas, and the second-largest by volume. It is the world's first freshwater coastal lake constructed from an arm of the ocean.

    3.7 km · reservoir in New Territories, Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Plover Cove Country Park

    Plover Cove Country Park is a country park in Hong Kong located in the Northeastern New Territories. The original country park was established on 7 April 1978, covering 4,594 hectares of natural terrain in the administrative North District and Tai Po District.

    1.9 km · country park in New Territories, Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tiu Tang Lung

    Tiu Tang Lung is a hill within Plover Cove Country Park in northeastern Hong Kong. It has a height of 417 metres.

    1.4 km · Hong Kong hill · 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.

Go there

Getting to Kau Tam Tso

Airports
Hong Kong (HKG), 40 km · Shenzhen Bao'an (SZX), 48 km · Macau (MFM), 78 km
  • Hong Kong → Kau Tam Tso
    26 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · HK$28–37
  • Shenzhen → Kau Tam Tso
    19 km · quickest by road, 45 min · ¥10–14
  • Nossa Senhora do Carmo → Kau Tam Tso
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · $9–12
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kau Tam Tso

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 Kau Tam Tso. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTuen Mun Ferry Pier provides a line by Fortune Ferry from Tuen Mun to Tai O.

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Kinmen (Quemoy)TW

    10 ways of moving, 12 sources

    473 km
  2. 02
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    709 km
  3. 03
    Orchid Island (Lanyu)TW

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    752 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,024 km
  5. 05
    Sa PaVN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    1,067 km

If you know how people move in Kau Tam Tso – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kau Tam Tso

Kau Tam Tso is 13 km from Luohu District, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.