Western Street (Hong Kong) Explained

Western Street is an uphill one-way street (from north to south) in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong. It connects Bonham Road in the south and Connaught Road West in the north. There are 337 units in 17 buildings in the street. Addresses are odd on the west side of the street, and mostly even on the east side. However, on the newer part of the street, on the reclamation north of Queen's Road West, the east side has both odd and even numbered addresses.

Landmarks

From North to south

Western Police Station, near Des Voeux Road West
Western Magistracy, government offices between Queen's Road West and First Street.
Western District Community Centre between Second and Third Streets. The building was first built in 1922 as the Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital operated under the Chinese Public Dispensary Committee.^[1]
Kau Yan School and Kau Yan Church, below High Street
King's College, near Bonham Road

Residential buildings

Named buildings from North to south

Wing Cheung Building with 23 floors and 90 units
King's Hill with 166 units

Intersecting streets