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Tai Po District Council

The Tai Po District Council is the district council for the Tai Po District in Hong Kong.

Tai Po District Council
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The place

The Tai Po District Council is the district council for the Tai Po District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Tai Po District Council currently consists of 22 members, of which the district is divided into two constituencies, electing a total of 4 members, 8 district committee members, 8 appointed members, and 2 ex officio members who are the Tai Po and Sai Kung North rural committee chairmen. The latest election was held on 10 December 2023.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tai Po District Council

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.

    400 m · railway museum in Tai Po, Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.7 km · mountain of Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    The 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.

    3.8 km · public university in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    1.1 km · sports ground in Tai Po · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cloudy 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.

    3.3 km · mountain in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Tai 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.

    2.3 km · Public park in Tai Po, Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    1.1 km · building in Hong Kong, China · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    3.8 km · mountain pass in Hong Kong, People's Republic of 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.

    900 m · House estate in Tai Po, Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Tai 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.

    800 m · shopping mall 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.

Go there

Getting to Tai Po District Council

Airports
Hong Kong (HKG), 30 km · Shenzhen Bao'an (SZX), 43 km · Macau (MFM), 68 km
Stations
Tai Po Market station, 400 m · Tolo Harbour, 2.2 km
  • Shenzhen → Tai Po District Council
    15 km · quickest by road, 37 min · ¥9–11
  • Nossa Senhora do Carmo → Tai Po District Council
    72 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · $8–11
  • Zhuhai (Jinwan) → Tai Po District Council
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · ¥45–60
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tai Po District Council

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 Council. 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

    484 km
  2. 02
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    719 km
  3. 03
    Orchid Island (Lanyu)TW

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    761 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,034 km
  5. 05
    Sa PaVN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    1,059 km

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Around it

Next door to Tai Po District Council

Tai Po District Council is 6 km from New Territories, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.