Hong Kong Historical Sights & Attractions

Even though Hong Kong is a small city in terms of geographical area, it certainly has an interesting and colorful history. For one thing, being a British colony for 155 years made it very different from anywhere else in China in every way. Here's a list of sights and attractions where you can begin to explore that.

Hong Kong Island

• Sun Yat Sen Museum - Sun Yat Sen is the founder of China as a new nation in early 1900s. (Mid Levels, Central)
• Cat Street - antiques and pseudo antiques Mid Levels / Sheung Wan)
• Golden Bauhinia Square - historic site of the official handover of HK to China by UK in 1997. (Wan Chai)
• Noon day gun - a canon fired at noon. (Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter, Causeway Bay)
• Hollywood Road - antiques and pseudo antiques (Mid Levels, Central)

Kowloon

• Hong Kong Museum of History (Tsim Sha Tsui)
• 1881 Heritage (Tsim Sha Tsui)
• Kowloon Walled City Park - former location of Qing Dynasty fort (Kowloon City)
• Sung Wong Toi Garden - where a king had fled to centuries ago (Kowloon City)

Misc.

• Cheung Po Tsai Cave - site of an old pirate cave (Cheung Chau Island)
• Kamakazi Cave - site of WWII Japanese Kamikazi (Lamma Island)
• festivals in Hong Kong
  • Tai Hang fire dragon dance
  • Dragon Boat festival
  • Chinese New Year