Yau Yat Tsuen

Yau Yat Tsuen

Yau Yat Tsuen Garden City is one of the very few low density residential areas in central urban area of Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is located in North Kowloon, at the foot of Beacon Hill. As a primarily residential area, there are relatively little services inside Yau Yat Tsuen. There is a small supermarket, a few property agents, a post office and a few other local stores. However a large shopping mall Festival Walk is on the edge of the village, which consists of 200 stores including a cinema and an ice-skating rink. The whole area of Yau Yat Chuen is also within walking distance from the underground train system of MTR and the rail system East Rail Line.

After second world war, affluent families built large detached houses in the area of Yau Yat Tsuen. Since then it has been expanded and covered a much larger area. Along with the neighbouring Kowloon Tong and Beacon Hill, the area has some of the most exclusive and expensive residential properties in Kowloon. In the 1970s some of the large houses were subdivided into approximately 10 flats in each block. However with high property prices in Hong Kong, those 3 or 4 bedroom flats which tend to cost more than 7 million HK dollars, are still prohibitively expensive to a large section of the Hong Kong population. In the 1980, a large development scheme of Yau Yat Tsuen Garden were built and more 1,000 to 2,400 square feet flats and houses were built. In the 1990s Yau Yat Tsuen continues to expand with the development of Parc Oasis, where over 20 10-storey blocks being developed. In 1992 the nearby Polytechnic gained University status and become the City University of Hong Kong.


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