Nathan Road, Hong Kong

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Nathan Road
Traditional Chinese:		彌敦道
Simplified Chinese:		弥敦道
Mandarin
Mandarin	Hanyu Pinyin:	Mí Dūn Dào
Cantonese
Cantonese	IPA:	[neɪ₁₁ tøn₅₅ toʊ₂₂]
	Jyutping:	nei4 deon1 dou6

Nathan Road, near corner with Argyle Street, in Mong Kok

Nathan Road, near corner with Jordan Road, in Yau Ma Tei, at night.

The road signs of Nathan Road and Middle Road on the exterior of The Peninsula hotel. The road signs have the name of the roads in both Chinese and English.

KMB Enviro 500 serving Route 1 on Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui.

Nathan Road is the main thoroughfare in Kowloon, Hong Kong, China that goes in a south-north direction from Tsim Sha Tsui to Mong Kok. It is lined with shops, restaurants and tourists, and was known in the post-World War II years as the Golden Mile, a name that is now rarely used. It starts on the southern part of Kowloon at its junction with Salisbury Road, slightly north of Victoria Harbour, and ends at its intersection with Boundary Street in the north.

1 History
2 Areas and MTR Station crossed by the road (south to north)
3 Partial list of buildings and landmarks along the road
4 See also

[edit] History

The first section of the road was completed in 1861. It was the very first road built in Kowloon, after the land was ceded by the then Qing Dynasty government to the United Kingdom and made part of the crown colony in 1860. The road was originally named Robinson Road, after Sir Hercules Robinson, the 5th Governor of Hong Kong. To avoid confusion with the Robinson Road on Hong Kong Island, the name was changed to Nathan Road in 1909, after Sir Matthew Nathan, the 13th Governor who served between 1904 and 1907.

The section of the road from Gascoigne Road to Argyle Street was originally named Coronation Road (加冕道), in honour of the coronation of King George V in 1911. The road was renamed as part of Nathan Road in 1926, after works joining the road and Nathan Road was completed. The section of Tai Po Road south of Boundary Street was also renamed as part of the road.