High Street, Hong Kong
High Street is a one-way street in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong, available only to minibuses and private vehicles. It connects Bonham Road in the east and Pok Fu Lam Road in the west. It runs from east to west from Western Street to Pok Fu Lam Road, and from west to east from Western Street to Bonham Road. It was originally named Fourth Street, but because the number four is commonly avoided in Chinese culture, the government changed the name to High Street.
Landmarks
- Bonham Road Government Primary School, formerly the Northcote College of Education, which also had a campus at the junction of Sassoon Road and Northcote Close, Pok Fu Lam. In the early 1990s, it merged with the other colleges of education to form the Hong Kong Institute of Education in Tai Po. The Pok Fu Lam campus was taken over by the University of Hong Kong to become part of its Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine.
- Sai Ying Pun Community Complex
- King George V Memorial Park
- Sai Ying Pun Market
- Kau Yan Church and Kau Yan School.
- Li Sing Primary School
- Western Dental Clinic
- David Trench Rehabilitation Centre
- St. Paul's Secondary School, one of the top secondary school in Hong Kong.