Ho Man Tin

Ho Man Tin (Chinese: 何文田; Jyutping: ho4 man4 tin4; Cantonese Yale: hòh màhn tìhn) is a mostly residential area in Kowloon West, Hong Kong, part of the Kowloon City District.

History

The original Ho Man Tin was quite different from today's Ho Man Tin. It was located in the heart of nowaday Mong Kok. With cultivated lands, it was surrounded in the north by Argyle Street, west by Coronation Road (present-day Nathan Road), and east by Quarry Hill, No. 12 Hill and Tai Shek Kwu (present-day Kadoorie Hill). Southeast from its original location is Fo Pang and to the south Mong Kok. Streams from those hills in the east offered water for cultivation, the latter reflected in the area's name last Chinese character, i.e. tin, 田, which means field. The "Ho" (何) and "Man" (文) part of the name are both Chinese surnames; so Ho Man Tin represents the agricultural land owned by the "Ho" and "Man", the major families who took their residence around the area.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the eastern hills to the original site of Ho Man Tin became a resettlement area for refugees from China, the city building there the Ho Man Tin Estate, which gave the name Ho Man Tin to that section of the hills, thus shifting away name-wise from the original flat fields. The present-day Ho Man Tin is close to Argyle Street and Kowloon Hospital. The area is within the district of the Kowloon City police station.

Ho Man Tin Station

Ho Man Tin Station is the under-construction interchange station on the Hong Kong MTR's Kwun Tong Line Extension and Sha Tin to Central Link.

According to MTRC's Sha Tin to Central Link proposal, the station will be located beneath Valley Road in the Lo Lung Hang area.

The name is something of a misnomer, as the station is located at the extreme south of Ho Man Tin. Walking to the central part of Ho Man Tin from this station would take approximately 15–20 minutes.

Station layout (future)

The station will be located between Chung Hau Street and Chatham Road North. In the merger proposal, this station will be developed as a large scale interchange station including two levels of platforms for Kwun Tong Line and East-west Line.

During peak hours, some Kwun Tong Line trains are planned to terminate at Platform 2 in Ho Man Tin.

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