Mody Road () is a street 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 ...

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Location

Mody Road starts at

Nathan Road Nathan Road is the main thoroughfare in Kowloon, Hong Kong, aligned south–north from Tsim Sha Tsui to Sham Shui Po. It is lined with shops and restaurants and throngs with visitors, and was known in the post–World War II years as the Golden ...

to the west, crosses

Chatham Road South 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 e ...

and ends at Science Museum Road to the northeast.

History

The road was built in 1887 as an unnamed path linking Nathan Road and Chatham Road, about the site of the former Tsim Sha Tsui Bay. In March 1909, the road was given its current name in honour of Sir

Hormusjee Naorojee Mody Sir Hormusjee Naorojee Mody (12 October 1838 – 16 June 1911) was a successful Indian Parsi businessman in Hong Kong. He made Hong Kong his home for 50 years, during which he did much for the benefit of the colony and finally founded the Univer ...

, a successful Parsi businessman in Hong Kong for his support in founding the

Hong Kong University The University of Hong Kong (HKU) (Chinese: 香港大學) is a public research university in Hong Kong. Founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, it is the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong. HKU was also the fir ...

, along his other contributions to Hong Kong. In the 1970s, Tsim Sha Tsui East was built on reclaimed land over

Hung Hom Bay Hung Hom Bay was a bay in Victoria Harbour, between Tsim Sha Tsui and Hung Hom in the southeast of Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong. Since 1994, parts of the bay were reclaimed, and by 2019 it had been completely extinguished. All of present-da ...

. Mody Road was then extended east to its present-day end at Science Museum Road, but this new road was called Ching Yee Road. On 19 February 1982, Ching Yee Road was renamed Mody Road to reflect the fact that it was an eastward continuation of Mody Road. On the same day, Ching Hay Street was renamed Mody Lane.

Features

A number of hotels are located at the eastern end of the road, including the

Kowloon Shangri-La Kowloon Shangri-La is a five-star hotel of the Hong Kong-based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts group. It is located on Mody Road in Tsim Sha Tsui East overlooking Victoria Harbour and the Hong Kong Island skyline. It is the sister hotel to the ...

, the InterContinental Grand Stanford an
The Royal Garden Hotel

Public Transport

A pedestrian tunnel linking

and East Tsim Sha Tsui MTR station was built under a stretch of Mody Road. The Tsim Sha Tsui East bus terminus is also located along the road, near MTR exit P1.

References

{{HKkowloonroads Roads in Kowloon Tsim Sha Tsui Tsim Sha Tsui East