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Lung Kwu Tan, Hong Kong — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Lung Kwu Tan is an area in the western part of the Tuen Mun District, in the New Territories, Hong Kong.
About Lung Kwu Tan
Where to stay in Lung Kwu Tan
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Rooms stop short of Lung Kwu Tan. Tuen Mun Town, about five kilometres east, carries the rooms and the shops that the western part of the Tuen Mun District does not, so most people booking a night near Lung Kwu Tan end up basing themselves there and travelling out. Pillar Point sits between the two. For the full spread of Hong Kong hotel stock, the search moves to Hong Kong Island, well beyond the New Territories.
About Lung Kwu Tan
What are the main landmarks in Lung Kwu Tan?
No monument fixes the map here. Lung Kwu Tan carries no listed attraction of its own, so orientation runs off the administrative frame instead, and the western part of the Tuen Mun District is read against the built-up centre at Tuen Mun Town rather than against any square or terrace. Pillar Point is the nearest named coast.
That corner belongs to Tuen Mun Town as well, and the run of ground between the two closes off the western end of the Tuen Mun District.
What is the history of Lung Kwu Tan?
Written history barely touches this ground. No founding year attaches to Lung Kwu Tan, and the written trace amounts to a placement: an area in the western part of the Tuen Mun District. The district sits in the New Territories.
What that means for the neighbourhood is that its past is bound up with Tuen Mun Town and the coast at Pillar Point rather than with Hong Kong Island, whose story ran on a separate track for most of the period that produced these boundaries.
Where is Lung Kwu Tan?
Lung Kwu Tan lies at the western end of the Tuen Mun District, out towards the edge of the New Territories and well away from Hong Kong Island.
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Updated September 2026