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Causeway Bay, which can be reached directly by tram, bus or a taxi from the Central District is bounded on the east by Victoria Park, on the west by Canal Road, on the south by Caroline Hill and Leighton Road, and on the north by the harbour. Causeway Bay really was a bay until the 1950s when the bay disappeared into a great land reclamation project. What was then Causeway Bay is today Paterson Street. The present day "bay" is occupied by the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club on Kellett Island and the Typhoon Shelter. To get there, you need to use the sampan. Bargain for the price before you get in.
The Noon-Day-Gun which is a unqiue site to this part of
Hong Kong waterfront the gun is fired at noon every day.
Nobody know for sure why the gun is fired at noon every
day but according to a century legend, this ritual began
one day in mid 1800s when one of the Jardine’s opium
boats sailed into the harbour and a willing minion gave
tha boat a 21 gun salute. The Hong Kong governor was
incensed that a mere purveyor of "foreign mud"
should receive the same greeting as an official figures,
so as penance, he ordered that the gun be fire at noon
everyday in perpetuity. Causeway Bay’s modern
history began in 1973 when the Cross-Harbour Tunnel was
opened. This underwater freeway is one of the largest
tunnels in Asia. Its four lanes cross 2 km of harbour
water between Hong Kong and Kowloon.