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Hakka walled village in Hong Kong, China

Tsang Tai Uk

Tsang Tai Uk, also known as Shan Ha Wai, is a Hakka walled village in Hong Kong, and one of the best preserved.

Tsang Tai Uk
Tsang Tai Uk · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Tsang Tai Uk, also known as Shan Ha Wai, is a Hakka walled village in Hong Kong, and one of the best preserved. The complex is located in Sha Tin close to the south of Pok Hong Estate, near Lion Rock Tunnel Road.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tsang Tai Uk

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
    Lion Rock

    Lion Rock, or less formally Lion Rock Hill, is a mountain in Hong Kong. It is located in Sha Tin District, between Kowloon Tong of Kowloon and Tai Wai of the New Territories, and is 495 metres high.

    2.3 km · hill in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Chi Lin Nunnery

    Chi Lin Nunnery is a large Buddhist temple complex located in Diamond Hill, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1934 as a retreat for Buddhist nuns and was rebuilt in the 1998 following the traditional Tang dynasty architecture.

    4 km · monastery in Hong Kong, China · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hong Kong Baptist University

    Hong Kong Baptist University is a public university with a Christian education heritage in Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The university was established as Hong Kong Baptist College with the support of American Baptists, who provided both operating and construction funds and personnel to the school in its early years.

    4 km · university in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Wong Tai Sin Temple

    Wong Tai Sin Temple is a well known shrine and tourist attraction in Hong Kong. It is dedicated to Wong Tai Sin, or the Great Immortal Wong.

    3.5 km · temple in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery

    The Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery is a mid-20th century Buddhist temple located in Sha Tin, Hong Kong, at 220 Pai Tau Village. Its designation as a monastery is actually a misnomer because there are no monks residing at the complex, which is managed solely by laypersons.

    1.6 km · Buddhist monastery in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Sha Tin Racecourse

    Sha Tin Racecourse is one of the two racecourses for horse racing in Hong Kong. It is located in Sha Tin in the New Territories.

    3.3 km · Racecourse in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Tate's Cairn

    Tate's Cairn or Tai Lo Shan is a mountain in Hong Kong at 583 metres in height.

    3.3 km · mountain in Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Tung Shan

    Tung Shan is a mountain between Tate's Cairn and Kowloon Peak in Kowloon, Hong Kong.

    3.9 km · mountain of Hong Kong · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Hong Kong China Temple

    The Hong Kong China Temple, formerly the Hong Kong Temple, is the 48th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The intent to build the temple was announced on October 3, 1992, by Gordon B. Hinckley, first counselor in the First Presidency, during general conference.

    4 km · building in Hong Kong China Temple, China · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Diamond Hill

    Diamond Hill is a hill in the east of Kowloon, Hong Kong. The name also refers to the area on or adjacent to the hill.

    3.8 km · hill and adjacent area 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.

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Getting to Tsang Tai Uk

Airports
Hong Kong (HKG), 29 km · Shenzhen Bao'an (SZX), 50 km · Macau (MFM), 66 km
Stations
Diamond Hill station, 3.9 km · Sha Tin station, 1 km · Fo Tan station, 2.5 km · Wong Tai Sin Station, 3.6 km · Tai Wai station, 1.2 km
  • Shenzhen → Tsang Tai Uk
    23 km · quickest by road, 43 min · ¥13–18
  • Nossa Senhora do Carmo → Tsang Tai Uk
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · $7–9
  • Zhuhai (Jinwan) → Tsang Tai Uk
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · ¥41–55
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Tsang Tai Uk

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 Tsang Tai Uk. 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.

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    10 ways of moving, 12 sources

    485 km
  2. 02
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    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

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  3. 03
    Orchid Island (Lanyu)TW

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

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  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,033 km
  5. 05
    Sa PaVN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    1,061 km

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Around it

Next door to Tsang Tai Uk

Tsang Tai Uk is 1 km from Sha Tin, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.