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Above: Nathan
Road, a main road running through the middle of Tsim Sha Tsui
district.
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 Tsim
Sha Tsui tops the list for having them all when it comes to an area
for shopping, sightseeing, museums, restaurants,
and hotels. (Left:
Space
Museum)
Located at the southern tip of Kowloon Peninsula, it is separated
from the Hong Kong Island by the Victoria
Harbor. Hence there are many harbor
front hotels facing the beautiful, world-renowned Hong
Kong Island skyline. Since the harbor is where fireworks are
launched from during city-wide celebrations, literally myriads
of people gather at the Tsim
Sha Tsui waterfront at such events (did
you know that a myriad means 10,000?).
If you're visiting Hong Kong in a cruiseliner, most likely your
ship will be berthed at Ocean
Terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui as well, unless your ship is too
big for the decades old terminal.
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 Worth
mentioning is the pedestrian tunnel system in Tsim Sha Tsui. It
connects together the MTR
Tsim Sha Tsui station, the East
Tsim Sha Tsui station, Sheraton
Hotel, the New World Hotel and shopping center, Intercontinental
Hotel, the Tsim
Sha Tsui watarfront (location of the Avenue
of Stars where you can have a picture taken with Bruce
Lee), Cultural
Center, Space
Museum, Museum of Art, and the adjacent Star
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Above: a side street in Tsim Sha
Tsui |
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 If
you want to shop, in addition to all those shops along Nathan
Road which runs through the heart of Tsim Sha Tsui, and those
on the side
streets, there are also shopping centers and a large mall,
Harbour City (on Canton Road). In fact Canton Road has become
the name-brand row.
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Above: The "1881
Heritage" on Canton Road, originally
headquarters of the Hong Kong Marine Police from 1880's to
1997, is now a shopping center, hotel and exhibition hall.
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Tsim Sha Tsui, or more easily referred to as TST by the expat
community in Hong Kong, is easily reached by MTR
(the subway, just get off at Tsim Sha Tsui station). You can also
get there by Star
Ferry from Central
or Wan Chai
district on Hong Kong Island, and by bus
(mainly from other parts of Kowloon).
- BEWARE -
On nights when there're fireworks over the Victoria
Harbor (e.g. New Year's Eve, July 1st, and maybe also the
second evening of Chinese
New Year), many streets near the harbor in Tsim Sha Tsui are
closed off to motorized traffic in order to accommodate the tens
of thousands of people, so you may not be able to get to your
hotel in a vehicle. Even if you can, the streets may be so congested
that traffic is at a standstill and you might as well walk.
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2009.9.26) |
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