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Hanoi Road () is a short road between
Hanoi Road () is a short road between Carnarvon Road
Carnarvon Road () is a street in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It forms the shape of an uppercase "J", linking Kimberley Road (near Knutsford Terrace) and Nathan Road.
Name
The street is named after Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, Se ...
and Mody Road
Mody Road () is a street in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Location
Mody Road starts at Nathan Road to the west, crosses Chatham Road South and ends at Science Museum Road to the northeast.
History
The road was built in 1887 as an unnamed pa ...
in Tsim Sha Tsui
Tsim Sha Tsui, often abbreviated as TST, is an list of areas of Hong Kong, urban area in southern Kowloon, Hong Kong. The area is administratively part of the Yau Tsim Mong District. Tsim Sha Tsui East is a piece of land reclaimed from the Hu ...
, Kowloon
Kowloon () is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. With a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of in 2006, it is the most populous area in Hong Kong, compared with Hong Kong Island and t ...
, Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...
.
It was built in 1892 and opened to traffic in 1893 as “East Road”. It originally started at Chatham Road
Chatham Road South and Chatham Road North are two continuous roads spanning from Tsim Sha Tsui to Hung Hom in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The road originally ran from Signal Hill to Hung Hom under No. 12 Hill by the side of Hung Hom Bay. It was later ...
. After the construction of Mody Road, the easternmost part of Hanoi Road was also named Mody Road.
In 1908, the name was changed to Hanoi Road.
Almost an entire block west of the road was redeveloped in the early 2000s for the construction of the Masterpiece, a skyscraper featuring K11, a shopping mall. Exits N1 and N2 of the East Tsim Sha Tsui MTR station is located on the road.
See also
*List of streets and roads in Hong Kong
The following are incomplete lists of notable expressways, tunnels, bridges, roads, avenues, streets, crescents, Town square, squares and bazaars in Hong Kong.
Many roads on the Hong Kong Island conform to the contours of the hill landscape. S ...
References
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