Hong Kong Park (Admiralty), Hong Kong

Built in the 1840s, Flagstaff House originally served as the office and residence of the Commander of the British Forces in Hong Kong. It was converted to the Museum of Tea Ware in 1984.

This museum houses one of the biggest teaware collections I had ever seen. They are mostly artifacts from Imperial China, with some made in Ming & even Song Dynasty.

The museum also holds public presentations to promote Chinese tea drinking culture.

Many of the treasures were actually donated by Dr. K S Lo, so a wing was named after him in 1995.

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Hong Kong Park lies between Admiralty and Central. You can enter it by taking the MTR to Admiralty, going into Pacific Place shopping mall then taking the escalators up towards the British consulate. The park is surrounded by tall buildings, but it is still a very pleasant spot for a visit.

On the park grounds there is a large open aviary; a conservatory showcasing the flora of different climatic zones such as desert, tropical; there is a teaware museum housed in Flagstaff House the oldest existing colonial building in Hong Kong, an art gallery also housed in an old colonial building and a large lake with a waterfall feature, fish and turtles.

The park is open from 6am to 11pm daily and is free entry.

The aviary and conservatory are open from 9am to 5pm and are also free entry.

There is a children's play park with a much loved huge slide at the top end of the park.

The park also contains a restaurant which is pretty good and in a lovely setting. Management of the restaurant changes a lot. The current restaurant is Italian and Thai. Open 11am to 10,30pm.

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Quite lovely park under Victoria peak in HK Island, Central! Just a few steps from business district and you can already watch birds and turtles in ponds as well as see just married couples at photo session (yes, it's Marriage registrar right next to park, at Cotton tree drive).

If your time permits you can visit zoo and/or botanical gardens – which we didn't so I cannot comment on that part.

The rest of park is somehow squeezed under the slope and there are diverse sections and paths with fountains and artificial lakes and even artifical waterfalls. What man needs in city… it makes him create all that very close to him… to mimic the nature they say..
The ponds will have quite a lot of tortoises and fish, in the nice setting in shade and dark warter. The rocks and artificial waterfall seems to serve as the curtain background on young couples photos. You may walk in the upper elevation to catch more views or just walk at lower paths, both are fine. Further along the way you will get to fountain which extends through the park and connects different features and programs – and it ends into cascading steps, another waterfall design, yet here it looks less natural and more urban.

Park was opened in 1991 in place what used to be garrison site – before known as Victoria Barracks - and takes some 8 hectares of the area. Number of former garrison buildings from between 1842 – 1910 were preserved and were incorporated into park and nowsadays serve public purposes. In one of these you can visit Tea ware museum, while others were turned into park offices and marriage registrar and art centre.

Open from 6 am to 11 pm latest. Relate to other facilities for their working hours from parks website.

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Visiting Hong Kong Park was like stepping into another place. With all the high rise buildings that surround Hong Kong, it puts contrast to the area with the abundance of open spaces, landscaped gardens, colorful flowers & tall trees. We spent our afternoon walking, running or sitting on the benches when we get tired. During our short stay, there was a wedding being held at Park. After a year, we also had our wedding at the Civil Registry at Cotton Tree which is just nearby the Park :)

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Very nice park with a small zoo and botanical garden. The zoo has a small mammal collection (mostly monkeys), but also has a very nice collection of birds. During the weekdays, this park is frequently visited by children on school field trips.

Flagstaff House is one of the oldest colonial-style building remaining in Hong Kong, having been built in 1846. It has been a long-time residence of the Commander of the British forces in Hong Kong during colonial times until 1978 and was called Headquarter House until 1932. Today it houses the Museum of Tea Ware, which has been housed here since 1984.

Open: 10am-5pm daily. Admission is free.

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The aptly named Hong Kong Park is one of the islands largest parks covering an area of 80,000 m². It is located off Cotton Tree Drive near the Admiralty MRT station and was opened in 1991. Like other parks in Hong Kong, it is surrounded by skyscrapers but this doesn't distract from just how nice the park is. It features a few historical buildings such as Flagstaff House which dates from 1846 and is now home to the Museum of Teaware, Rawlinson House which used to be the former house of the British Deputy General and Wavell House, former quarters for married British officers as well as Hong Kong's largest aviary - the Edward Youde Aviary. The park is also very popular for married couples to have their pictures taken against flower borders and water features whilst wearing their white wedding outfits.

Open: 6am-11pm.

We visited Hong Kong Park which was really nice. Check out all the tropical fish in the water and the terrapins. It's a great landscape to take photos as well with the sky rises in the background. It's free and well worth a visit.