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Thirty Houses, Hong Kong — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Thirty Houses is a near-vanished name for a few blocks of Hong Kong Island between Central and Tai Ping Shan, south of Hollywood Road.
About Thirty Houses
Where to stay in Thirty Houses
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Two streets set the choice here: Staunton Street, the old axis, or Bridges Street one block over. The tract is small. Rooms anywhere between Hollywood Road and Caine Road sit within a few minutes of Central on one side and the older lanes toward Tai Ping Shan on the other, which is the whole case for sleeping on this slice of Hong Kong Island.
Peel Street marks the eastern boundary. Cross it and the name stops.
About Thirty Houses
What are the main landmarks in Thirty Houses?
Nothing here carries the name on a sign. What survives instead is a frame of streets: Hollywood Road along the northern edge, Caine Road to the south, Peel Street closing the east. Bridges Street and Staunton Street cross the middle as the two axes the old name was measured along, and walking either one end to end covers most of what Thirty Houses ever meant.
Tai Ping Shan lies past the western side.
What is the history of Thirty Houses?
Thirty Houses is a translation of an older Chinese name, not a street address. The tract it covered sits between Central and Tai Ping Shan, and the name has faded so far from ordinary use that it survives in written accounts rather than on any sign, boundary marker or letterbox in the area. Its extent was always approximate.
Roughly south of Hollywood Road, north of Caine Road, and west of Peel Street, with Staunton Street and Bridges Street holding the middle.
Where is Thirty Houses?
Thirty Houses covers a few blocks of Hong Kong Island inside the Central and Western District, between Central and Tai Ping Shan.
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Updated September 2026