Causeway Bay is probably the most popular shopping district on Hong Kong Island especially for the locals. Centrally located on Hong Kong Island, it is only two MTR stops from Admiralty, one of the main Hong Kong-Kowloon interchange MTR stations.

The pedestrian crossing at Yee Woo Street is the heart of it, surrounded by lots of restaurants, shops, cinemas, beauty salons, hotels and guest houses of different sizes. On weekends some side streets are actually closed to automobile traffic so as to accommodate the crowds!

Causeway Bay also has one of the spots where new year's eve count-down takes place: Times Square. The most famous park in Hong Kong - Victoria Park - is also sandwiched between Causeway Bay and Tin Hau. At its waterfront is a marina / typhoon shelter. Every day in front of it, there's the firing of a noonday gun (firing of a small cannon).

With the lack of affordable real estate at the street level, a lot of restaurants have moved upstairs. Here are some buildings with restaurants on floors above ground: Island Beverly, Lee Theatre Plaza, Times Square, Hennessy Center. more

Directions for getting there

Causeway Bay is accessible by just about all kinds of transportation - buses, min-buses, trams, MTR, and then of course taxis. The most convenient and fairly inexpensive would be the MTR. Causeway Bay is on the blue line (Hong Kong Island). Just get off at the Causeway Bay stop and follow the signs in the station to where you want to go. (2009.6.13)