Hong Kong · Hong Kong
Kau Wa Keng, Hong Kong — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Kau Wa Keng is a village and valley in Lai King, Kowloon, set back from the reclaimed shore of Lai Chi Kok Bay. Three rivers once met there.
Hotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
Where to stay in Kau Wa Keng
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
Beds cluster on the Cheung Sha Wan side, near Po On Road Sports Centre, rather than in the valley itself. Kau Wa Keng stays a village in a valley, so the rooms that serve it sit out on the reclaimed flat where the Lai Chi Kok Park Sports Centre and the Osman Ramju Sadick Memorial Sports Centre mark the built edge. Lai King holds the third option, uphill and quieter.
Find hotels in Kau Wa Keng
Direct booking searches for these neighbourhoods.
Cheung Sha Wan grid
Po On Road Sports Centre fixes the inland end of the walk into the Kau Wa Keng valley, and the shophouse streets around it stay busy after dark.Find hotels in Cheung Sha Wan gridtravellers curious about the ground the Lai Chi Kok Amusement Park once occupiedLai Chi Kok reclaimed flat
The Lai Chi Kok Park Sports Centre and the Osman Ramju Sadick Memorial Sports Centre stand on fill that was Lai Chi Kok Bay water before the shoreline moved out.Find hotels in Lai Chi Kok reclaimed flatpeople who prefer the Lai King shoulder above the valley to the filled ground below itLai King shoulder
Lai King Sports Centre marks the upper shoulder above the valley, clear of the through roads that cross the reclaimed flat. Rooms are few around here — worth securing early.Find hotels in Lai King shoulderHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
About Kau Wa Keng
What are the main landmarks in Kau Wa Keng?
Sports centres do the landmark work here. The Osman Ramju Sadick Memorial Sports Centre and the Lai Chi Kok Park Sports Centre stand on made ground, the reclaimed floor of Lai Chi Kok Bay, where three rivers draining the Kau Wa Keng valley once converged on a beach. Cheung Sha Wan Sports Centre and Po On Road Sports Centre anchor the street grid inland.
Lai King Sports Centre keeps the upper side.
What is the history of Kau Wa Keng?
The Lai Chi Kok Amusement Park stood on this ground and closed in 1997. Before it, Kau Wa Keng was a village in a valley whose three rivers ran down to a beach at the head of Lai Chi Kok Bay, and reclamation later pushed the shoreline out and erased that estuary. The village name survives in two other spellings, Kau Wah Keng and Kau Wa Kang.
New Kowloon grew around it.
Where is Kau Wa Keng?
A valley opens behind the reclaimed flat. Kau Wa Keng lies in Lai King, on the New Kowloon side of Hong Kong, with Lai Chi Kok Bay filled in below it.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Kau Wa Keng?
Cheung Sha Wan grid: sleeping on the Cheung Sha Wan grid and walking in to the Kau Wa Keng valley. Lai Chi Kok reclaimed flat: travellers curious about the ground the Lai Chi Kok Amusement Park once occupied. Lai King shoulder: people who prefer the Lai King shoulder above the valley to the filled ground below it.
Good for
More areas in Hong Kong
See also
Updated October 2026