Kowloon Shopping

Where to Shop in Kowloon

Kowloon is quite the place for shoppers. There are numerous high-end name brand stores around the Tsim Sha Tsui end of the Kowloon peninsular while busy and fascinating street markets feature at the Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok areas at the other end of Nathan Road. Here's where to buy anything from a gold necklace to a pet goldfish.

Sportswear Street on Fa Yuen Street is where you can find trendy sportswear and sports equipment. Kowloon's numerous department stores and shopping centres vie with the factory outlets along Granville Road, which are a must for bargain shoppers.

Nathan Road and Park Lane Shopper's Boulevard

Put simply, Nathan Road is the major shopping area of Kowloon. Starting from the Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade, Nathan Road runs the whole length of Kowloon. The lower part of the road, marked at one end by the Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade and the other end by the Jordan MTR Station, is the place to go if you are bargain hunting. Everything – from tacky stores aimed at tourists, to high class brand names – can be found in this district. Halfway along, between the Tsim Sha Tsui and Jordan MTR Stations, along the Nathan Road side of Kowloon Park is the Park Lane Shopper’s Boulevard. It’s here where you’ll find a gaggle of stunning boutiques stocking both international and local brands.

Cheung Sha Wan Road Fashion Street

This is the best place in town to buy groovy threads at wholesale prices. Most of the shops are located between Wong Chuk Street and Yen Chow Street. The clothes are generally extras from clothes factories in and around Sham Shui Po – also with a few rejects to choose from. A lot of the dealers running the shops are genuinely knowledgeable about what they're doing so you're in good hands and will be able to get some excellent deals and bargains.

Aplui Street

For those after a bargain in the electronics and accessories field, the Apliu Street Market is one of the best in Hong Kong. Stalls at this open-air arrangement sell a wide variety of products at reasonable prices, allowing shoppers to trade secondhand goods. The sheer variety of things available at the market is mind-boggling. The Hong Kong government promotes Apliu Street as Hong Kong's answer to Japan's Akihabara.

Kowloon Shopping Centers

Harbour City

For a truly well-stocked shopping mall with hundreds of outlets (over 700 shops alone), an incredible 50 restaurants, banking facilities, accommodation, leisure facilities, men's, women's and children's clothes – and for just about everything else under the sun visitors should visit the two-million square foot Harbour City in Tsim Sha Tsui on the waterfront. There are international restaurants here along with delis and fast food joints and the largest Toys 'R' Us in Asia. This is the mother of all one-stop shopping centres in Hong Kong.

Elements

This is MTRC's flagship designer shopping mall. It is conveniently located at the MTR Kowloon Station which is surrounded by brand-name shops. Elements also has an impressive list of amenities, including dining options, leisure activities, entertainment and cultural opportunities. Cutting edge and forward looking, the shopping mall features prestigious brands and premium quality products from around the world, including world-renowned brands that are making their debuts in Hong Kong.

Festival Walk

Festival Walk in Kowloon Tong is one of the most popular and frequented shopping malls in town. Bathed in natural light, there are countless retail outlets offering everything from home furnishings to fashion in this one million square feet complex. In addition to fabulous shopping you'll find many restaurants and bars, Hong Kong's largest ice-skating rink and a multiplex cinema. It's conveniently located right above the Kowloon Tong MTR Station.

Sham Shui Po

Sham Shui Po is well known for its electronic gadgets for sale on the street or indoors. Here, you'll be able to pick up virtually any computer product at a price that beats anywhere else in Hong Kong. Once infamous for pirated software but today considered one of the cheapest places in Hong Kong (if not the world) to get (or buy parts to build) a personal computer, the Golden Shopping Centre is a prominent IT shopping centre.

Kowloon Markets

Temple Street Market

This is one of the liveliest night markets in Kowloon and is the place to go for cheap clothes, delicious open-air street stall food, watches, pirated CDs and DVDs, fake label clothing, sports and everyday footwear, cooking ware and household items. Any marked prices should be taken as suggestions alone as this is definitely the place to bargain. Amusingly enough, you'll also find many fortune-tellers and herbalists and on the odd occasion some free open-air Cantonese opera. The market officially opens in the afternoon but most hawkers set up at about 18:00 and leave by midnight. The market is at its best from around 19:00 to 22:00 when it's a colourful and noisy spectacle.

Jade Market

Souvenir hunters will love the Jade Market. There are up to about 500 stalls here vending items from the Jade that gives the market its name, to lots of Hong Kong souvenirs ranging from the tacky to the genuinely interesting. There is an easy-going atmosphere here with friendly stallholders but always remember to bargain with a smile!

Ladies Market and Fa Yuen Street Market

Fa Yuen Street, a smaller market, is a typical Hong-Kong style market with fresh food and lots and lots of knick-knacks. The extremely popular Ladies Market is a veritable explosion of clothing (in spite of its name it caters for both sexes) and accessories, shoes and bags. Things can get a little crowded here, so much so that vendors have to use hooked poles to dislodge higher-placed items for sale and the path that runs down the centre of the market is barely wide enough to cater for one person, there's so much crammed into the space. In spite of this, it's loads of shopping fun.

Street Markets in Kowloon

Yuen Po Street - Mong Kok - 07:00 – 20:00
Flower Market Road - Mong Kok - 07:00 – 19:30
Goldfish Market Tung Choi Street - Mong Kok -10:00 – 21:00
Ladies Market Tung Choi Street - Mong Kok - 12:30 – 22:30
Temple Street - Yau Ma Tei - 16:00 – 23:00

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