Lok Fu is a place in Wong Tai Sin District, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is located to the east of Kowloon Tsai, the west of Wong Tai Sin and the north of Kowloon City.

History

The only village in this area in the 19th century was Ta Ku Ling or Ta Kwu Ling, not to be confused with the other two villages of the same name in Hong Kong (Ta Ku Ling in Sai Kung district and Ta Kwu Ling in North district). It is recorded on an 1866 map and was part of an alliance of seven nearby villages led by Nga Tsin Wai Tsuen. It was located where Morse Park is now. In the 1940s many refugees arrived in the area, which was then known as Lo Fu Ngam (, literally "Tiger's Den" in Chinese). There were many squatter huts on the hillsides. After the construction of the public housing estate started in 1957 with the first resettlement blocks being built, Lo Fu Ngam was renamed as Lok Fu which literally means "Happiness and Wealth" in Chinese. All the housing estates were rebuilt in the 1980s and 1990s. Wang Tau Hom complex (now Lok Fu Place), built in 1985, was designed by the architects Alan Fitch (architect of Hong Kong City Hall) & W.N. Chung (architect of the 1971 (now replaced) Peak Tower).

Features

The centre of Lok Fu contains the Lok Fu Place shopping centre. The shopping mall was renovated in 2008-9 while the market was renovated in 2013. The anchor tenant of the shopping mall is the Japanese department store Uny. Besides the shopping mall, Lok Fu primarily consists of public housing estates: The Lok Fu area has many parks: Other places of interest in Lok Fu include:

Transport

Lok Fu is served by Lok Fu station on the MTR's Kwun Tong line. Junction Road passes through Lok Fu.

Education

Lok Fu is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 43. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and Wong Tai Sin Government Primary School.