Chinese name: 九龍寨城公園 Location: Tung Tau Tsuen Road, Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong. Ticket: free. Opening time of the park: 06:00-23:00. Ope...
The Kowloon Walled City Parkoccupies one of the most historic sites in the territory. Once strategically located at the northeastern corner of the Kowloon peninsula and adjacent to what was later named Kowloon Bay, the site was used by imperial officials in the 15th century. It was first fortif...
This is also where you’ll find the remnants of the notorious Kowloon Walled City, a Chinese military outpost that grew into the world’s most unusual vertical slum. It has now been converted into a beautiful park with an historic site at its heart. Delicious food, captivating history and ...
residents were not satisfied with the compensation and were forcibly evicted between November 1991 and July 1992. After four months of planning, demolition of the Walled City began on 23 March 1993 and concluded in April 1994. Construction work on Kowloon Walled City Park started the following ...
Life Inside Kowloon Walled City The Walled City Is Now a Park The Most Densely Populated City on Earth At its peak, an estimated 50,000 people lived in Kowloon Walled City confined to an area covering one-hundredth of a square mile (0.026 square kilometer). That made Kowloon Walled Ci...
At the foot of Checkerboard Hill, Hau Wong Temple (侯王廟) remains as the last surviving remnant from the Kowloon Walled City. Built in 1730, today the temple stands across the street from Kowloon Walled City Park, overlooking the disappeared community it once served as their patron saint. Th...
Kowloon Walled City Rebuilt in JapanIf you don’t know anything about Kowloon Walled City (九龍城寨) then have a read of my earlier posts where I looked at what it was (a lawless area of Hong Kong) and what it is today 20 years later (now redeveloped as a park). It’s a ...