Reclamation Street is a
street
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stretching from
Jordan
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to
Mong Kok
Mong Kok (also spelled Mongkok, often abbreviated as MK) is an area in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The Prince Edward subarea occupies the northern part of Mong Kok.
Mong Kok is one of the major shopping areas in Hong Kong. The area is characterised ...
,
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
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. As its name suggests, it was built on the
reclaimed
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western shore of the
Kowloon Peninsula
The Kowloon Peninsula is a peninsula that forms the southern part of the main landmass in the territory of Hong Kong, alongside Victoria Harbour and facing toward Hong Kong Island. The Kowloon Peninsula and the area of New Kowloon are collect ...
.
Location
Reclamation Street is on a north–south axis and runs mostly parallel to and west of
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 ...
. It starts at the junction with
Nanking Street
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in the south and ends in the north at the junctions of
Lai Chi Kok Road
Lai Chi Kok Road is a road in western Kowloon, Hong Kong. It links Lai Chi Kok to Mong Kok, via Tai Kok Tsui, Sham Shui Po and Cheung Sha Wan. It starts from a junction with Nathan Road near Pioneer Centre in the south and ends near Mei Foo ...
and
Prince Edward Road West
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The r ...
in the
Prince Edward area. The street is mostly located between
Canton Road
Canton Road is a major road in Hong Kong, linking the former west reclamation shore in Tsim Sha Tsui, Jordan, Yau Ma Tei, Mong Kok and Prince Edward on the Kowloon Peninsula. The road runs mostly parallel and west to Nathan Road. It starts ...
on the west and
Shanghai Street
Shanghai Street is a 2.3 km long List of streets and roads in Hong Kong, street in the Jordan, Hong Kong, Jordan, Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok areas of Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. Completed in 1887 under the name of Station Street (差館街), it ...
on the east. It's interrupted in two locations, and is thus made up of three sections - The Jordon section in the south, the middle section in Yau Ma Tei and the Mong Kok section in the north.
Features
For the most part, Reclamation Street is closed to public traffic. The street features one of the largest if not longest fresh produce markets in Hong Kong.
Being an old services district, the street is typically lined with old residential buildings usually no more than 5 storeys high. Most of these buildings are walk-ups, meaning, they have no elevators. At the street level, there's a wide range of wholesale and service type businesses - typically workshops of one sort or other, ship chandlers, catering and other similarly related small businesses. The wholesale
Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market and the former
Yaumati Theatre are located at the street's junction with
Waterloo Road.
Trivia
The herbalist store ''Sang Sang'' (生生藥行), which is located at house number 66 on this street, was a site of the Detour in the seventh leg of the reality TV show ''
The Amazing Race 2
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The season premiered on CBS on March 11, 2002, and ended on May 15, 2002.
Lifel ...
''.
See also
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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 ...
External links
Google Maps of Reclamation Street
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Reclamation Street market - scenes and views of Hong Kong's largest if not longest fresh produce market
Yau Ma Tei
Street markets in Hong Kong
Roads in Kowloon
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