Dragon Centre is a nine-storey shopping centre in the

Sham Shui Po Sham Shui Po is an area of Kowloon, Hong Kong, situated in the northwestern part of the Kowloon Peninsula, north of Tai Kok Tsui, east of Cheung Sha Wan and south of Shek Kip Mei (). It is located in and is the namesake of the Sham Shui ...

area of

Kowloon Kowloon () is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. With a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of in 2006, it is the most populous area in Hong Kong, compared with Hong Kong Island and ...

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a List of cities in China, city and Special administrative regions of China, special ...

. It was the largest in

West Kowloon West Kowloon () is the western part of Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong, situated within the Yau Tsim Mong District and Sham Shui Po District. It is bounded by Canton Road to the east, Victoria Harbour to the west and the south, and Jor ...

until the Elements opened above the Kowloon MTR station.

History

Located beside the historic Sham Shui Po Police Station, the centre was built on part of the site of the former Sham Shui Po Camp, a

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for Commonwealth forces captured during the

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, which was also used to house

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in the late 1970s and 1980s.

Features

The leading tenant is Sincere, a

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. Sunlight shines from the skylight through to the first floor. A

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is located on the ground floor.J. Roger Preston Limited
Dragon Centre, Hong Kong
/ref> The ninth floor features Sky Fantasia (), a children's entertainment centre,Sky Rink website
and an

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, the Sky Train (). This hangs from the roof and was the second indoor roller coaster in Hong Kong (the first was located in the Wonderful World of Whimsy in

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), but it has been closed since the mid-2000s. The eighth floor features an

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, the Sky Rink (), and a

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. The Dragon Centre won the

Hong Kong Institute of Architects Hong Kong Institute of Architects (HKIA, ) is a professional body for architects in Hong Kong with approximately 1500 full members, 300 associates members and graduate members.

1994 Certificate of Merit Award.

Anchors and retailers

* Sixty Eight Store * Apple Mall (), a mall-within-a-mall, split into 3 levels on the 5th, 7th, and 9th floors * Baleno * Bossini * BSX * City Chain * Fortress World *

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* KFC *

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* Pokka Cafe *

Kee Wah Bakery Kee Wah Bakery () is a chain of bakery stores in Hong Kong, Chinese Mainland (Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shanghai), Taiwan, and the United States (Los Angeles and San Francisco). History Kee Wah Bakery was founded by Mr. Wong Yip Wing in 1938 as a s ...

* Aji Ichiban Co., Ltd *

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* HSBC ATM *

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Watsons Watsons () is a Hong Kong health care and beauty care chain store in Asia and Europe. It is the flagship health and beauty brand of the A.S. Watson Group, which is majority owned by CK Hutchison Holdings. It operates near 8,000 stores an ...

* Sincere *

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* ParknShop Superstore *

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* Jumpin Gym USA * Fairwood * Cafe 360 *

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Transport

The Dragon Centre is served by the

Sham Shui Po station Sham Shui Po () is an MTR station located in Sham Shui Po, New Kowloon, Hong Kong. The station is located under Cheung Sha Wan Road between and stations on the . Sham Shui Po's colour is . The station has an island platform arrangement which ...

of the

MTR The Mass Transit Railway (MTR) is a major public transport network serving :Hong Kong. Operated by the MTR Corporation Limited (MTRCL), it consists of heavy rail, light rail, and feeder bus service centred on a 10-line rapid transit network ...

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