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The Peak Galleria () is a leisure and shopping complex and a tourist attraction located at
Victoria Gap Victoria Gap () is an area and a mountain pass located between the summits of Victoria Peak (aka. Mount Austin) and Mount Gough, on Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong. It is the most touristic place within the area referred to as '' The Peak'', wh ...
, near the summit of
Victoria Peak Victoria Peak is a hill on the western half of Hong Kong Island. It is also known as Mount Austin, and locally as The Peak only generally. With an elevation of , it is the highest hill on Hong Kong Island, ranked 29 in terms of elevation in H ...
on
Hong Kong Island Hong Kong Island is an Islands and peninsulas of Hong Kong, island in the southern part of Hong Kong. Known colloquially and on road signs simply as Hong Kong, the island has a population of 1,289,500 and its population density is 16,390/km ...
,
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 is owned and run by
Hang Lung Properties Hang Lung Properties, formerly Amoy Properties and currently subsidiary of Hang Lung Group, is a property developer in Hong Kong. It is a member of Hang Seng Index Constituent Stocks ( blue chip) and is headquartered in the Standard Chartered ...
. It includes a bus terminus for public buses run by
New World First Bus New World First Bus Services Limited (NWFB) is the third-largest bus operator in Hong Kong. Established by NWS Holdings and FirstGroup in September 1998, it took over 88 China Motor Bus services in Hong Kong Island. Since 2020 it has been a s ...
and a
green minibus The public light bus or minibus is a public transport service in Hong Kong. It uses minibuses to serve areas that standard Hong Kong bus lines cannot reach efficiently. The vehicles are colloquially known by the code-switch ' (Van Jái) lite ...
route that serves the Peak. The complex is adjacent to the
Peak Tower The Peak Tower is a leisure and shopping complex located at Victoria Gap, near the summit of Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. It also houses the upper terminal of the Peak Tram. Both the Peak Tower and the Peak Tram are owned ...
, another leisure and shopping complex, which houses the upper terminus of the
Peak Tram The Peak Tram is a funicular railway in Hong Kong, which carries both tourists and residents to the upper levels of Hong Kong Island. Running from Garden Road Admiralty to Victoria Peak via the Mid-Levels, it provides the most direct route and o ...
. The shopping complex houses a number of eateries. It also has a free-entry observatory deck on level 3, which is larger than the one at the Peak Tower.


History

The building has been situated at its site since 1993. From 2013 until its closure in 2018,
Hong Kong Trams Station Hong Kong Trams Station () is a tram museum and gift shop in Siu Sai Wan. It was formerly located at the Peak Galleria on Hong Kong Island. The museum, run by Tramric Limited, opened on 27 October 2013 to celebrate the 110th anniversary of Hong ...
, a museum and gift shop focused on the history of
Hong Kong Tramways Hong Kong Tramways (HKT) is a narrow-gauge tram system in Hong Kong. Owned and operated by RATP Dev Transdev Asia, the tramway runs on Hong Kong Island between Kennedy Town and Shau Kei Wan, with a branch circulating through Happy Valley. ...
, was located in the complex. In 2016, Hang Lung Properties began renovations and the restaurant Cafe Deco, which had been located in the mall for 22 years, closed. In 2019, Hang Lung Properties renovated the entrance of the mall. HK Peak Gallera Void.jpg, Atrium Before the renovation The Peak Galleria Level 2 2009.jpg, Mall Before renovation HK Peak Gallera Ceiling.jpg, Entrance ceiling designed by Cork Marcheschi, it is removed in 2009 The Peak Galleria Entrance void glass wall 2020.jpg, Entrance void glass wall added after renovation The Peak Galleria Level 1 Children Playground 2020.jpg, Level 1 Children Playground


See also

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Tourism in Hong Kong The tourism industry has been an important part of the economy of Hong Kong since it shifted to a service sector model in the late 1980s and early 90s. There has been a sharp increase of domestic tourists from Mainland China following the i ...


References


External links


The Peak Galleria homepage
Shopping malls established in 1993 Shopping centres in Hong Kong Victoria Peak Hang Lung Group 1993 establishments in Hong Kong {{HongKong-struct-stub