Dragon Centre

Dragon Centre is a nine-storey shopping centre in the Sham Shui Po area of New Kowloon, Hong Kong.

For the housing estate, see Tai Hang § Housing.

Dragon Centre

Exterior view
Location	Sham Shui Po, New Kowloon, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22°19′52″N 114°09′35″E
Address	37K Yen Chow Street
Opening date	1994; 31 years ago (1994)
Developer	Eton Properties
Management	Various
Owner	Eton Properties[1]
Architect	Wong Tung & Partners[2]
Floor area	45,000 m2 (480,000 sq ft)[3] 77,700 m2 GFA[4]
Floors	9 floors of retail 5 basement floors (service)[3]
Website	dragoncentre.com.hk

Dragon Centre
Traditional Chinese	西九龍中心
Simplified Chinese	西九龙中心
Literal meaning	West Kowloon Centre
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xī Jiǔlóng Zhōngxīn Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Sāigáulùhng jūngsām Jyutping Sai1gau2lung4 zung1sam1

Atrium of Dragon Centre.

Ground floor of Dragon Centre.

History

Located beside the historic Sham Shui Po Police Station, the mall was built on part of the site of the former Sham Shui Po Camp, a prisoner-of-war camp for Commonwealth forces captured during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, which was also used to house Vietnamese refugees in the late 1970s and 1980s.

Features

The leading tenant is Sincere, a department store. Sunlight shines from the skylight through to the first floor.^[2] A bus terminus is located on the ground floor.^[3]

The ninth floor features Sky Fantasia (奇趣天地), a children's entertainment centre,^[5] and an indoor roller coaster, the Sky Train (天龍過山車).^[6] This hangs from the roof and was the second indoor roller coaster in Hong Kong (the first was located in the Wonderful World of Whimsy in Cityplaza), but it has been closed since the mid-2000s.^[7] The eighth floor features an ice skating rink, the Sky Rink (飛龍冰上樂園),^[5] and a food court.

The Dragon Centre won the Hong Kong Institute of Architects 1994 Certificate of Merit Award.^[8][9]

Anchors and retailers

• Sixty Eight Store
• Apple Mall (蘋果商場), a mall-within-a-mall, split into 3 levels on the 5th, 7th, and 9th floors^[10]
• Baleno
• Bossini
• BSX
• City Chain
• Fortress World
• Pizza Hut
• McDonald's
• KFC
• Yoshinoya
• Ajisen Ramen
• Pokka Cafe
• Kee Wah Bakery
• Aji Ichiban Co., Ltd
• Bank of China
• HSBC ATM
• 7-Eleven
• Watsons
• Sincere
• Mannings
• ParknShop Superstore
• Lenscrafters
• Jumpin Gym USA
• Fairwood
• Cafe 360
• Kumon

Transport

The Dragon Centre is served by the Sham Shui Po station of the MTR.