Bute Street

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Bute Street (Chinese: 弼街; pinyin: Bì Jiē; Cantonese Yale: bat6 gaai1) is a street in Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

On one east end the street, it is the exit to Mong Kok East MTR Station and Grand Century Place of an extensive elevated walkway in the eastern Mong Kok.

A shopping centre Pioneer Centre, which was a theatre in Kowloon, was erected at the junction of Nathan Road. Opposite to the shopping centre is another landmark, a high-rise church of HKCCCC Mong Kok Christian Centre.

The Telephone exchange near Shanghai Street is a main office of the PCCW in Kowloon.

The street was named after John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 1762 and 1763.

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