Whampoa Garden


Whampoa Garden is the largest private housing estate in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was built on the site of the former Whampoa Dockyards by Hutchison Whampoa Property. The urban design of the estate incorporates concepts inspired by the Garden city movement and was completed in 1991.

Features

The estate covers 19 hectares and consists of 12 complexes. Ten are residential/commercial mixed use, with a total of 88 16-storey residential high-rise towers. The other two are solely commercial use. There was a height restriction on the buildings due to its proximity to the Kai Tak Airport at the time. It includes eight shopping arcades, three supermarkets, a cinema, hundreds of restaurants and shops, a karaoke, five primary schools, mini-parks and two public transport interchange.
There are 10,431 flats, ranging from, in the 88 residential towers.
Notable commercial outlets include the first ParknShop Hong Kong Superstore, which was opened in 1996 in Whampoa Garden Phase 12 with a floor space of ; as of 2011, there are over 50 superstores in Hong Kong. Also, The Whampoa is a -long boat-shaped shopping centre built in the original No. 1 Dry Dock, in Phase 6. During the 1980s and 1990s, the structure housed a playground on the top and "deck" level, seafood restaurants, a cinema on other floors above ground levels; the department store Yaohan on ground and basement level, and an indoor family theme park with an arcade game centre and a roller skating rink on lower basement level. In late 1990s, the department store was taken over by JUSCO department store. The JUSCO department store was renamed to AEON in 2013, to be consistent with the name change adopted by its parent company in Japan. In May 2016, the department store was renovated and renamed as AEON STYLE after its reopening in September the same year.
There is also a promenade along sea side, from Laguna Verde to Hung Hom Ferry Pier. It is also linked to the Avenue of Stars. One can walk from Hunghom Pier to Tsim Sha Tsui Pier in about 40 minutes.

Complexes

PhaseNameNo. blocksNo. floorsNo. unitsYear built
1Juniper Mansions5156001985
2Cherry Mansions18152,1601987
3Willow Mansions8159591987
4Palm Mansions6157201987
5Oak Mansions9151,0801988
7Cotton Tree Mansions5154651988
9Lily Mansions10161,2181989
10Banyan Mansions5156001988
11Bauhinia Mansions13151,5601989
12Bamboo Mansions9151,0791991

Demographic

According to the 2016 by-census, Whampoa Gardens had a population of 30,198. The median age was 41.8. Nearly 88 per cent of the estate was of Chinese ethnicity. Cantonese speakers comprised 87 per cent of the speaking population, with English as the second-most usual spoken language, at 7 per cent.

Transportation

;MTR
Whampoa Garden is served by Whampoa Station, the terminus of the Kwun Tong Line. The underground station, located beneath Tak On Street, opened in 2016.
;Ferry
;* Hunghom to North Point
;Buses and minibuses

Buses and minibuses serving Whampoa Garden

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;Kowloon Motor Bus
  • 3B- Tsz Wan Shan ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
  • 5D- Telford Garden ↺ Whampoa Garden
  • 7B- Lok Fu ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
  • 8A- Whampoa Garden ↺ Star Ferry
  • 8P- Laguna Verde ↺ Star Ferry
  • 12A- Sham Shui Po ↔ Whampoa Garden
  • 15- Ping Tin ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
  • 30X- Gardens ↔ Whampoa Garden
  • 85S- Yiu On → Hung Hom Ferry
  • 85X- Ma On Shan Town Centre ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
  • 297- Hang Hau ↔ Hung Hom Ferry
  • 297P- Hang Hau → Hung Hom Ferry
;Minibus
;Cross Harbour Tunnel Bus
  • 115- Kowloon City Ferry ↔ Central
  • 115P- Laguna Verde → Central
  • 116- Tsz Wan Shan ↔ Quarry Bay
;New World First Bus
;Citybus