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Tai Tam

Tai Tam or Tytam is an area in Southern District on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.

Tai Tam
Tai Tam · Ansgar Koreng
The place

Tai Tam or Tytam is an area in Southern District on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Tai Tam means a big pool in the Chinese language which illustrates a triangular bay, namely Tai Tam Bay between Stanley Peninsula, D'Aguilar Peak and Tai Tam Tuk. The meaning of Tai Tam varies greatly between the early colonial days and the present day.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tai Tam

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
    Stanley Mosque

    The Stanley Mosque is a mosque in Stanley, Hong Kong. It is the fourth mosque built in Hong Kong and it is located at the Stanley Prison.

    2.6 km · mosque in Stanley, Hong Kong, China · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Chai Wan Mosque

    The Chai Wan Mosque or Cape Collinson Mosque is a mosque in Chai Wan, Hong Kong, China. It is the fifth mosque built in Hong Kong.

    2.6 km · mosque in Chai Wan, Hong Kong, China · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pottinger Peak

    Pottinger Peak is a mountain on the eastern side of Hong Kong Island. It is located south of Chai Wan and Siu Sai Wan and north of Big Wave Bay.

    3 km · mountain in People's Republic of China · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Mount Parker

    Mount Parker is the second-highest peak at 532 metres on Hong Kong Island, after Victoria Peak at 552 m. It is the 40th-highest peak in the territory of Hong Kong.

    3.3 km · mountain in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Stanley Military Cemetery

    Stanley Military Cemetery is a cemetery located near St. Stephen's Beach in Stanley, Hong Kong.

    2.8 km · cemetery in Stanley, Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Wong Nai Chung Gap

    Wong Nai Chung Gap is a geographic gap in the middle of Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong.

    3.9 km · mountain pass in Hong Kong, People's Republic of China · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Law Uk Folk Museum

    Law Uk is a former Hakka village house in Chai Wan, Hong Kong. Named after the surname of the family who lived in the house, it was built in the mid-18th century during the Qing Dynasty, about 90 years before the British took possession of Hong Kong Island.

    3.2 km · historic site in Chai Wan, Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Wong Nai Chung Reservoir Park

    Wong Nai Chung Reservoir Park is a park and artificial lake in the Wong Nai Chung Gap, Wong Nai Chung, Hong Kong, located near Hong Kong Parkview. It was formerly Wong Nai Chung Reservoir, a closed reservoir in Hong Kong.

    3.6 km · park and artificial lake in Wong Nai Chung Gap, Wong Nai Chung, Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Shek O Peak

    Shek O Peak or Ta Lan Tsing Teng Shan is a hill in southern Hong Kong. It is the tallest hill along the Dragon's Back trail.

    2.1 km · hill in southeastern Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    D'Aguilar Peak

    D'Aguilar Peak or Hok Tsui Shan is a hill in southeastern Hong Kong. D'Aguilar Peak is clearly visible from the Dragon's Back trail, although the trail doesn't traverse its summit.

    3.5 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 Tai Tam

Airports
Hong Kong (HKG), 33 km · Shenzhen Bao'an (SZX), 62 km · Macau (MFM), 66 km
Stations
Chai Wan station, 3.2 km · Tai Tam Harbour, 800 m
  • Shenzhen → Tai Tam
    38 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · ¥21–29
  • Nossa Senhora do Carmo → Tai Tam
    69 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · $8–11
  • Zhuhai (Jinwan) → Tai Tam
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · ¥50–65
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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 Tai Tam

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inYou can also get into Aberdeen by ferry from Cheung Chau or Lamma Island.
  • Go nextThere are a few Outlying Islands reachable from the Southern District: Take a ferry from Aberdeen to Lamma island Take a ferry from Stanley to the Po Toi islands

From Wikivoyage: Hong Kong/Southern District, 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

    490 km
  2. 02
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    729 km
  3. 03
    Orchid Island (Lanyu)TW

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    754 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

    1,065 km

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

Around it

Next door to Tai Tam

Tai Tam is 5 km from Hong Kong Island, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Repulse Baybay and neighbourhood in Hong Kong2.8 km
  • Shek Oarea and village of Hong Kong3 km
  • Chung Hom Kokhuman settlement in Hong Kong3 km
  • Middle Baysmall bay in Southern District, Hong Kong Island, between Repulse Bay and South Bay2.8 km