Dopamine Arcade & Art Industrial Walk｜Kowloon City District, Hong Kong CityWalk

Kowloon City District is located in the eastern part of the Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong, a historic neighborhood full of local life and culture. It was once the site of the Kowloon Walled City and has since developed into a multicultural community known as "Little Chaozhou" and "Little Thailand," featuring markets, art spaces transformed from industrial sites, and dense arcade buildings. As a model of urban renewal in Hong Kong, the area connects history and modernity through the "Metamorphosis · Dragon City" walking trail, attracting visitors to experience the unique charm of old and new collisions via CityWalk!

🏃Route Design: Embark on a one-day dopamine arcade & art industrial CityWalk tour
🌟Route Highlights:
✨Color Aesthetics: The arcades around Sheung Heung Road and Pao Chui Street are famous for their high-saturation "dopamine colors" like bright yellow, pastel orange, and sky blue. The building facades paired with vintage neon signs create a visually striking streetscape.
✨Three-layer Time Travel: From late Qing military relics (Kowloon Walled City) → 20th-century industrial zone (To Kwa Wan factories) → contemporary art regeneration (Cattle Depot Artist Village), condensing a century of Hong Kong’s transformation.

🗺️One-day Recommended Route Overview
Start: To Kwa Wan Road ➡️ Sheung Heung Road ➡️ Cheung Ning Street ➡️ Kowloon City Road ➡️ Pao Chui Street ➡️ End: APM Mall (Kwun Tong)

❤️Core Highlights & Photo Spots
🌟Mei Wah Industrial Centre (To Kwa Wan Road)
One of the filming locations for the classic Hong Kong movie "A Better Tomorrow," featuring scenes of Ho (played by Ti Lung) working at a taxi company and Chow Mo (played by Chow Yun-fat) eating a lunchbox in a parking lot after falling on hard times. The film’s huge influence draws fans eager to visit the scenes and relive the movie’s spirit!

🌟Dopamine Arcade Clusters (Sheung Heung Road & Pao Chui Street)
✨Cheung Ning Street Rainbow Corner: A bright yellow arcade next to a pastel blue building creates a color clash effect, paired with old iron flower windows, making it a popular Instagram spot.
✨Pao Chui Street "Time Corridor": Preserves the 1950s arcade corridor structure with columns embedded with old signs. When neon lights turn on at night, it feels like a cyber-retro film set.

🌟Industrial Heritage Art Regeneration Area
✨Cattle Depot Artist Village (Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan): A red brick complex converted from an abattoir, housing studios of young artists and regularly hosting avant-garde exhibitions.
✨Whampoa Dock Site (Hung Hom): The giant ship-shaped mall "Whampoa No.1" retains the dock pit structure on its ground floor, with a rooftop viewing platform overlooking Victoria Harbour.

🌟Historical Landmarks & Community Secrets
✨Kowloon Walled City Park: Embeds Qing dynasty city wall ruins and Republic-era gun emplacements within a Jiangnan-style garden.
✨Hoi Sum Park (To Kwa Wan Waterfront): A 1950s workers’ resting spot, featuring a Merlion sculpture and a love lock bridge. Locals fishing and watching sunsets here create a poetic urban scene.

🌟Shopping & Nightlife Hub
✨APM Mall (Kwun Tong): Hong Kong’s first "nightlife concept" mall, open until early morning. Its transparent dome lighting changes color with day and night, and the suspended skybridge design feels futuristic.

✨Hollywood Plaza (Diamond Hill): The star plaza’s glass canopy suspends vintage airplane models, and the ground is engraved with the names of Hong Kong Film Awards winners.

📸 Top 3 Influencer Photo Spots
1⃣Cheung Ning Street × Pao Chui Street arcade corner: Capture the dopamine colors with the iconic tram in the frame using a wide-angle lens.
2⃣Cattle Depot Artist Village red brick chimney: Shoot upward against the brick wall to highlight the clash of industrial structure and artistic graffiti.
3⃣APM Mall starry sky skybridge: Use long exposure at night to capture the flow of people and neon light trails for a cyber vibe.

The charm of Hong Kong’s Kowloon City District lies in its "contradictory coexistence"—old arcades with dopamine colors, abattoirs with art exhibitions, docks with shopping centers all collide here! Walking through it is like reading a moving chapter of Hong Kong’s history and touching the city’s soul through the warmth of the community.