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Yau Tsim Mong District

Yau Tsim Mong District is one of 18 districts of Hong Kong, located on the western part of Kowloon Peninsula.

Yau Tsim Mong District
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Yau Tsim Mong District is one of 18 districts of Hong Kong, located on the western part of Kowloon Peninsula. It is the core urban area of Kowloon. The district has the second highest population density of all districts, at 49,115 km2 (18,963 sq mi). The 2016 By-Census recorded the total population of Yau Tsim Mong District at 342,970.

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Getting to Yau Tsim Mong District

Airports
Hong Kong (HKG), 27 km · Shenzhen Bao'an (SZX), 52 km · Macau (MFM), 63 km
  • Shenzhen → Yau Tsim Mong District
    28 km · quickest by road, 53 min · ¥15–20
  • Nossa Senhora do Carmo → Yau Tsim Mong District
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · $7–9
  • Zhuhai (Jinwan) → Yau Tsim Mong District
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · ¥40–55
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No local-transport research exists yet for Yau Tsim Mong 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 Yau Tsim Mong District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inHelicopter transfers can be arranged between Hong Kong International Airport and the roof-top landing pad at the Peninsula Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui.
  • Get aroundThe 5 follows Chatham Road north at first on its run from the Star Ferry pier to Fu Shan, with the 6 going northwest from the dock to Lai Chi Kok and providing access to the western side of the peninsula.
  • Get aroundRoutes 5R, 22, and 22M as well as some minibuses connect from Kai Tak Cruise Terminal to different regional subcenters where passengers can further transfer to other bus, metro, other transit services, or explore these local area.
  • Get aroundTogether with line, they cover most part of the Kowloon area, with feeder bus and green minibus available at various stations for connection into more localized area.
  • Get aroundThere are also red minibus hubs scattering around Mong Kok and Kwun Tong.

From Wikivoyage: Hong Kong/Kowloon, 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

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

    727 km
  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

    1,037 km
  5. 05
    Sa PaVN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    1,060 km

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Yau Tsim Mong District is 1 km from Kowloon, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.