Mody Road () is a street in

Tsim Sha Tsui Tsim Sha Tsui ( zh, c=尖沙咀), often abbreviated as TST, is an list of areas of Hong Kong, area in southern Kowloon, Hong Kong. The area is administratively part of the Yau Tsim Mong District. Tsim Sha Tsui East is a piece of land reclaimed ...

Kowloon Kowloon () is one of the areas of Hong Kong, three areas of Hong Kong, along with Hong Kong Island and the New Territories. It is an urban area comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. It has a population of 2,019,533 and a populat ...

, Hong Kong.

Location

Mody Road starts at

Nathan Road Nathan Road () is the main thoroughfare in Kowloon, Hong Kong, aligned south–north from Tsim Sha Tsui to Sham Shui Po. It is lined with shops and restaurants and throngs with visitors, and was known in the post–World War II years as the Gol ...

to the west, crosses

Chatham Road South Chatham Road South ( Chinese: 漆咸道南) and Chatham Road North ( Chinese: 漆咸道北) are two continuous roads extending from Tsim Sha Tsui to Hung Hom in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The road originally ran from Signal Hill to Hung Hom, under No. ...

and ends at Science Museum Road to the northeast.

History

The road was built in 1887 as an unnamed path linking Nathan Road and Chatham Road, about the site of the former Tsim Sha Tsui Bay. In March 1909, the road was given its current name in honour of Sir

Hormusjee Naorojee Mody Sir Hormusjee Naorojee Mody (12 October 1838 – 16 June 1911) was an Indian Parsi businessman in Hong Kong. He lived in Hong Kong for 50 years, during which he worked for the colony and founded the University of Hong Kong. Biography He was b ...

, a successful Indian Parsi businessman in Hong Kong for his support in founding the

Hong Kong University The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public research university in Pokfulam, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese by the London Missionary Society and formally established as the University of ...

, along his other contributions to Hong Kong. In the 1970s, Tsim Sha Tsui East was built on reclaimed land over

Hung Hom Bay Hung Hom Bay was a bay in Victoria Harbour, between Tsim Sha Tsui and Hung Hom in the southeast of Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong. Since 1994, parts of the bay were reclaimed, and by 2019 it had been completely extinguished. All of present- ...

. Mody Road was then extended east to its present-day end at Science Museum Road, but this new road was called Ching Yee Road. On 19 February 1982, Ching Yee Road was renamed Mody Road to reflect the fact that it was an eastward continuation of Mody Road. On the same day, Ching Hay Street was renamed Mody Lane.

Features

A number of hotels are located at the eastern end of the road, including the

Kowloon Shangri-La Kowloon Shangri-La is a five-star hotel of the Hong Kong–based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts group. It is located on Mody Road in Tsim Sha Tsui East overlooking Victoria Harbour and the Hong Kong Island skyline. It is the sister hotel to the ...

, the InterContinental Grand Stanford and The Royal Garden Hotel. The Global Headquarters of the

DFS Group DFS Group (DFS) ( Chinese: 迪斐世) is a global travel retailer of luxury products based in Hong Kong. Established in 1960, its global network consists of stores located in major global airports and downtown locations featuring over 750 brand ...

is also located here.

Public Transport

A pedestrian tunnel linking

and East Tsim Sha Tsui MTR station was built under a stretch of Mody Road. The Tsim Sha Tsui East bus terminus is also located along the road, near

MTR The Mass Transit Railway system, known locally by the initialism MTR, is a rapid transit system in Hong Kong and the territory's principal mode of Rail transport in Hong Kong, railway transportation. Operated by the MTR Corporation (MTRCL), ...

exit P1.

References

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