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King's Road
King's Road
Chinese	英皇道
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yīnghuáng Dào
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	ying1 wong4 dou6

King's Road
	Fortress Hill section of King's Road
Native name	英皇道 (Yue Chinese)
Former name(s)	Shaukiwan Road
Namesake	King George V
Length	4.2 kilometres (2.6 mi)
Location	Eastern District, Hong Kong
East end	Causeway Road / Hing Fat Road
West end	Shau Kei Wan Road / Tai Koo Shing Road

King's Road, at the junction between North Point and Quarry Bay

Fook Cheong Building (福昌樓) in the Quarry Bay section of King's Road

King's Road is a major east–west road along the north of Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, stretching from Causeway Bay (Tin Hau), where it joins Causeway Road, to Sai Wan Ho, where it joins Shau Kei Wan Road.

History

Originally part of the Shaukiwan Road, it was renamed in 1935 in honour of the Silver Jubilee of King George V's reign.^[1]

Features

From West to East.
In Tin Hau:

No. 1: Park Towers

In North Point:

No. 238-240: Fortress Towers and C&MA North Point Church
No. 277-291: Former State Theatre
No. 423: Sunbeam Theatre^[2]
Note that The boundary between North Point and Quarry Bay is at Man Hong Street / Healthy Street West

In Quarry Bay:

No. 611: WSD Hong Kong Regional Building
No. 668-702: Healthy Village
No. 740-774: Model Housing Estate
No. 888: North Point Government Primary School
No.979-981: Taikoo Place
No. 986: The Former Quarry Bay School is a Grade III historic building.^[3] Currently vacant, it was built in 1924–1926.^[4]
No. 1032-1044: Fook Cheong Building (福昌樓)
No. 1048-1056: Yick Fat Building (益發大廈). Housing the Hong Kong Aquarium Plaza.
No. 1111: Cityplaza (太古城中心)

Traffic

The road is shared between automobile traffic and the Hong Kong Tramways system, and the east bound of the section between eastern Causeway Bay and Quarry Bay bus lane. This tram line runs between Shau Kei Wan to Kennedy Town. Before the opening of Island Eastern Corridor and Island line of the MTR in the 1980s, the road was plagued with traffic congestion. Various measures like creation of bus lanes were taken to address the problem.

Part of the MTR Island line runs underneath the road, and the following stations serve the Road: Tin Hau (exit A1), Fortress Hill (exits A and B), North Point (exits B1/B2/B3), Quarry Bay (exit A), Tai Koo.