Tai Po District
Tai Po District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong.
Tai Po District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is located in the New Territories. The suburban district covers the areas of Tai Po New Town, Tai Po Tau, Tai Po Kau, Hong Lok Yuen, Ting Kok, Plover Cove, Lam Tsuen Valley, Tai Mei Tuk and other surrounding areas, and its exclaves Sai Kung North, in the northern part of the Sai Kung Peninsula and including islands such as Grass Island, and Ping Chau. Tai Po proper and Sai Kung North are divided by the Tolo Channel and the Tolo Harbour. The district is located in the Eastern New Territories. The de facto administrative centre of the district is Tai Po New Town.
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Worth seeing in and around Tai Po District
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.
- 01Hong 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.
300 m · railway museum in Tai Po, Hong Kong · Wikipedia - 02The Education University of Hong Kong
The Education University of Hong Kong is a public university in Ting Kok, New Territories, Hong Kong. The university was founded in 1994 as The Hong Kong Institute of Education.
3.7 km · public university in Hong Kong · Wikipedia - 03Tai 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.
600 m · sports ground in Tai Po · Wikipedia - 04Cloudy Hill
Cloudy Hill or Kau Lung Hang Shan is a 440m high hill in Tai Po District of northeastern Hong Kong. It is located within Pat Sin Leng Country Park.
2.9 km · mountain in Hong Kong · Wikipedia - 05Tai Po Waterfront Park
Tai Po Waterfront Park is a park in Tai Po in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It is located along the Tolo Harbour, and its western end is at the northern part of the mouth of the Lam Tsuen River.
2.5 km · Public park in Tai Po, Hong Kong · Wikipedia - 06Wang 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.
1.2 km · House estate in Tai Po, Hong Kong · Wikipedia - 07Fan 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.
1.6 km · building in Hong Kong, China · Wikipedia - 08Tai Po Mega Mall
Tai Po Mega Mall is the largest shopping mall in Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is owned by Sun Hung Kai Properties and located at On Pong Road, the centre of Tai Po New Town.
700 m · shopping mall in Hong Kong · Wikipedia - 09Tai Po Lookout Tower
Tai Po Lookout Tower is a large-scale landmark established to mark the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to the PRC in 1997. It is located near the mouth of the Lam Tsuen River and next to the shore of Tolo Harbour, within Tai Po Waterfront Park, in Tai Po, Hong Kong.
1.6 km · Landmark in Tai Po, Hong Kong · Wikipedia - 10Wo Hop Shek Public Cemetery
Wo Hop Shek Public Cemetery, in Wo Hop Shek near Fanling in Hong Kong, is the largest public cemetery in Hong Kong. The cemetery opened in 1950 in the New Territories as cemeteries began to reach capacity on Hong Kong Island.
3.8 km · cemetery in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
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Getting to Tai Po District
- Airports
- Hong Kong (HKG), 30 km · Shenzhen Bao'an (SZX), 43 km · Macau (MFM), 68 km
- Stations
- Tai Po Market station, 1 km · Tolo Harbour, 2.5 km
- Shenzhen → Tai Po District25 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · ¥21–28
- Nossa Senhora do Carmo → Tai Po District85 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · $9–13
- Zhuhai (Jinwan) → Tai Po District105 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · ¥50–70
- 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 Tai Po District
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 Tai Po District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inTuen Mun Ferry Pier provides a line by Fortune Ferry from Tuen Mun to Tai O.
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Tai Po District is 6 km from New Territories, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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