Travel information with destination guide in Causeway Bay by GuideRooms.com   

The former shape of Causeway Bay can be found on maps by tracing Tung Lo Wan Road. In the early of development a causeway was built, which is the present-day Causeway Road. The names of Yee Wo Street, Jardine's Bazaar and Jardine's Crescent reveal that the land in Causeway Bay was sold by the British colonial government to Jardines in the early 19th century.

Causeway Bay is centrally located on Hong Kong Island, Causeway Bay is the most popular shopping district. There are lots of Japanese department stores around this area.  One place that you can shop, eat, bank or catch a movie all in an afternoon. In addition to shopping, people come to Causeway Bay for the restaurants, pubs, karaoke bars and nightclubs when the district is aglow with neon and alive with people.

Festival

• Fire Dragon Dance at Tai Hang
  This celebration takes place in Causeway Bay during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The villagers made a big fire dragon of straw and stuck incense into the dragon. They lit firecrackers. They danced for three days and three nights and the plague disappeared.
  
  
• YUE LAAN (HUNGRY GHOST) FESTIVAL
  For one long lunar month during the Hungry Ghost Festival, ghosts are said to roam the earth. It falls on Seventh Moon or Day 15. Local festivals feature Chinese opera. Popular venues are King George V Memorial Park in Kowloon and Moreton Terrace Playground in Causeway Bay.
  
  
• MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL
  Celebrate in during the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 14th - 16th day of the eighth lunar month. This festival, people eat special sweet cakes known as "Moon Cakes" made of ground lotus and sesame seed paste, egg-yolk and other ingredients. Along with the cakes, shops sell coloured Chinese paper lanterns in the shapes of animals. The public are aflame with many thousands of lanterns.

How to get there

MTR (Mass Transit Railway)

Bus

These are the bus routes found in the vicinity of Causeway Bay station that provides connections with other areas not served by the MTR.

Hong Kong Tramways

Hong Kong Island's tramway system consists of an inner loop branching out at Causeway Bay towards Happy Valley. Racegoers or local residents can walk through a winding passageway inside the station to reach Exit A (Exits are located at Times Square). They should walk along Matheson Street to reach Leighton Road, and the tram stop is found at the junction with Wong Nai Chung Road.

Causeway Bay attractions

• Times Square
  The shopping centre is popular among teenagers, and also features a movie theatre. Surrounding by building is a popular venue for New Year countdowns. The complex was opened in April 1994.

• Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club
  Hong Kong sports club for sailing and rowing. It was located at 12 Oil Street, in North Point before reclamation.

• Noon-day Gun
  A former naval gun mounted on a small enclosed site near the Causeway Bay typhoon shelter on Hong Kong Island. There has been a gun sited in approximately this area ever since the 1860s.

• Queen's College
  The first secondary school founded by the colonial government of Hong Kong in 1862. It is a sixth form college for boys with a secondary school attached.

• Victoria Park
  One of Hong Kong’s largest public parks, in the heart of Causeway Bay, Victoria Park has swimming pools, a football pitch, running tracks and tennis courts. The park’s highlight is during Lunar New Year, when a flower show covers a huge area of the park, with exotic flowers. The evening before the first day of New Year it’s open all night.

• Causeway Bay Tin Hau Temple
  The temple was built by the Tai family probably in the early 18th Century. They became more popular, a proper temple building was built with donations from local boat people.