Tsim Sha Tsui

Tsim Sha Tsui occupies the tip of the Kowloon Peninsula, offering from its waterfront promenade the defining harbour view of the Hong Kong Island skyline with the Peak behind it. The promenade along Tsim Sha Tsui East — the Avenue of Stars, redeveloped in 2019 with the handprints of Hong Kong film industry figures — is the platform from which the Symphony of Lights multimedia show is best viewed each evening at 8 pm.

The Peninsula Hotel, opened in 1928, is one of the great colonial hotels of Asia. The lobby, with its high columns, gold detailing, and fleet of green Rolls-Royce cars waiting outside, represents a particular era of grand hotel culture. Afternoon tea here — expensive and requiring advance booking — is a genuine Hong Kong experience rather than a tourist gimmick.

Chungking Mansions at 36–44 Nathan Road is one of the most internationally diverse buildings in the world: a 17-storey block containing guesthouses, restaurants, currency exchange counters, mobile phone shops, and small businesses serving communities from India, Pakistan, Nepal, West Africa, and the Middle East. The sociologist Gordon Mathews documented it as a 'low-end globalisation' hub. It is loud, busy, and bewildering; the restaurants on the ground floor provide affordable non-Chinese food in a city where such options can be expensive.

The Hong Kong Museum of Art, reopened in 2019 after a four-year renovation, has a strong permanent collection of Cantonese paintings and ceramics and regular exhibitions of Hong Kong and mainland Chinese contemporary work.