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Lin Au

Lin Au, also known as Lin O, is a Hakka village in Lam Tsuen, Tai Po District, Hong Kong.

Lin Au
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The place

Lin Au, also known as Lin O, is a Hakka village in Lam Tsuen, Tai Po District, Hong Kong. It is one of the 23 villages in Lam Tsuen Valley.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lin Au

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
    Hong Kong Railway Museum

    The Hong Kong Railway Museum is a railway museum in Tai Po, Hong Kong. It is managed by the Leisure and Cultural Service Department as a branch museum of the Hong Kong Heritage Museum.

    1.8 km · railway museum in Tai Po, Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden

    Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, formerly known as Kadoorie Experimental and Extension Farm, or Kadoorie Farm, was originally set up to aid poor farmers in the New Territories in Hong Kong. It later shifted its focus to promote biodiversity conservation in Hong Kong and south China, and greater environmental awareness.

    3.1 km · botanical garden in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Grassy Hill

    Grassy Hill is the fourteenth highest mountain in Hong Kong. Peaked at 647 m, it is situated between Tsuen Wan and Tai Po and near Lead Mine Pass.

    3.9 km · mountain of Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tai To Yan

    Tai To Yan is a mountain that lies in northern Hong Kong near Fanling. It is close to a similarly named peak called Pak Tai To Yan.

    3 km · Mountain of Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Pak Tai To Yan

    Pak Tai To Yan is a mountain in northern Hong Kong near Fanling. It is close to a similarly named peak called Tai To Yan.

    3.3 km · mountain in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Sze Fong Shan

    Sze Fong Shan, located in Tai Po District of the New Territories, is the fourth highest peak in Hong Kong. With a height of 784 m, it is northeast of Tai Mo Shan.

    3.1 km · mountain in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Tai Po Sports Ground

    Tai Po Sports Ground is a sports ground located in Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. It was the home stadium of Hong Kong Premier League club Tai Po.

    2.1 km · sports ground in Tai Po · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Fan Sin Temple

    Fan Sin Temple, alias "Fan Sin Kung" or "Fan Sin Miu", is a temple in Hong Kong, located in Sheung Wun Yiu, Tai Po. It was declared a monument on 30 December 1999.

    1.9 km · building in Hong Kong, China · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Wang Fuk Court

    Kwong Fuk Estate is a public housing estate in Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is the second public housing estate in Tai Po, built at the reclaimed land at the east of Tai Po Old Market near Yuen Chau Tsai.

    3 km · House estate in Tai Po, Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Lead Mine Pass

    Lead Mine Pass is a mountain pass in the New Territories, Hong Kong. It is near Grassy Hill and two walking trails, MacLehose Trail and Wilson Trail intersect at the pass.

    3.6 km · mountain pass in Hong Kong, People's Republic of China · 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 Lin Au

Airports
Hong Kong (HKG), 28 km · Shenzhen Bao'an (SZX), 41 km · Macau (MFM), 66 km
Stations
Tai Po Market station, 2.5 km
  • Shenzhen → Lin Au
    14 km · quickest by road, 43 min · ¥9–12
  • Nossa Senhora do Carmo → Lin Au
    69 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · $8–10
  • Zhuhai (Jinwan) → Lin Au
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · ¥45–60
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lin Au

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 Lin Au. 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

    486 km
  2. 02
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    721 km
  3. 03
    Orchid Island (Lanyu)TW

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    763 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,036 km
  5. 05
    Sa PaVN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    1,057 km

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

Around it

Next door to Lin Au

Lin Au is 4 km from New Territories, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.