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Kau Wa Keng

Kau Wa Keng, also known as Kau Wah Keng or Kau Wa Kang, is a village and valley in Lai King, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Kau Wa Keng
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The place

Kau Wa Keng, also known as Kau Wah Keng or Kau Wa Kang, is a village and valley in Lai King, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is located near the reclaimed Lai Chi Kok Bay in New Kowloon. Three rivers in the valley once converged at the bay and forming a beach at the estuary. Kau Wah Keng is the former site of Lai Chi Kok Amusement Park, which closed in 1997.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kau Wa Keng

10 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
    Nina Tower

    Nina Tower are two 80-storey and 42-storey high-rise buildings in Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong near Tsuen Wan West station. The tower was designed to be the tallest tower in the world at 518 m.

    3.8 km · skyscraper · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    City University of Hong Kong

    The City University of Hong Kong is a public university in Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1984 as the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong and formally established as the City University of Hong Kong in 1994.

    3.7 km · public research university in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Stonecutters Bridge

    Stonecutters Bridge is a high level cable-stayed bridge spanning the Rambler Channel in Hong Kong, connecting Nam Wan Kok, Tsing Yi to Stonecutters Island. The bridge deck was completed on 7 April 2009, and opened to traffic on 20 December that year.

    2.8 km · bridge in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Indi Home

    Indi Home is a skyscraper located in the Tsuen Wan district of the New Territories in Hong Kong. The tower rises 56 floors and 212 metres in height.

    3.3 km · skyscraper · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Vision City

    Vision City is a residential high-rise development located in the Tsuen Wan district of the New Territories in Hong Kong. The complex consists of five towers, each of which ranks among the tallest buildings in the city.

    3.9 km · skyscraper · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Cheung Tsing Bridge

    Cheung Tsing Bridge, formerly Rambler Channel Bridge, is a bridge crossing Rambler Channel in Hong Kong, connecting Cheung Tsing Tunnel on Tsing Yi Island and Kwai Chung section of Tsing Kwai Highway. It is part of Tsing Kwai Highway of Route 3.

    2.6 km · bridge in Kong Kong · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Beacon Hill

    Beacon Hill is a hill in the northern part of the Kowloon peninsula in Hong Kong. It is the 71st-highest hill of Hong Kong and is 457m tall.

    3.3 km · hill of Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Lai Chi Kok Bridge

    Lai Chi Kok Bridge is a Hong Kong bridge that carries the Kwai Chung Road, part of Route 5, linking Kowloon to Kwai Chung, New Territories. The bridge, once the longest in Hong Kong, spanned Lai Chi Kok Bay, which was later filled in.

    700 m · bridge in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Nam Cheong Park

    The Nam Cheong Park is an urban park in the Sham Shui Po area of Kowloon, Hong Kong. The park is managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.

    2.9 km · public urban park in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Sham Shui Po Sports Ground

    Sham Shui Po Sports Ground is public sports ground located in Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It opened on 9 January 1988.

    1.6 km · Hong Kong stadium · 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 Wa Keng

Airports
Hong Kong (HKG), 23 km · Shenzhen Bao'an (SZX), 48 km · Macau (MFM), 60 km
Stations
Port of Hong Kong, 2.5 km · Nam Cheong station, 2.4 km · Olympic station, 3.7 km · Prince Edward station, 3.8 km · Sham Shui Po Station, 2.9 km
  • Shenzhen → Kau Wa Keng
    23 km · quickest by road, 50 min · ¥14–18
  • Nossa Senhora do Carmo → Kau Wa Keng
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · $6–9
  • Zhuhai (Jinwan) → Kau Wa Keng
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · ¥43–60
  • From anywhere
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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 Wa Keng

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 Wa Keng. 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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  4. 04
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  5. 05
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If you know how people move in Kau Wa Keng – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kau Wa Keng

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