About

About First2HK

First2HK is a field guide for first arrivals: bus fare stages, local apps, where to sleep, weather. It is not the tourist board.

Notes dated 2026-09

The expensive mistake is not the harbour. It is tapping on a bus and paying the boarding-stop stage. Residents check arrivals in App 1933 and Citybus, not Amap. We write that down. You walk the rest.

What this is not

  • Not the Hong Kong Tourism Board, and not an ad for an operator or a hotel.
  • No bookings, no affiliate links, no top-ten food lists.
  • We do not auto-convert scripts. Hong Kong place names and transit words are written for each locale.

Where facts come from

Fares and schedules are checked against MTR, Citybus, KMB/LWB, Hong Kong Tramways, and Transport Department public information; beaches against LCSD; weather against the Observatory; emergency numbers against police and department notices. Field notes decide what is worth writing. They do not override the official source.

Languages

Hong Kong Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese (keeping Hong Kong terms such as Octopus, taxi as 的士, bus as 巴士), and English. The site is first2hk.com.

Photographs

Photographs come from reusable licences such as Wikimedia Commons. The footer links to the credit list.

Questions

Why might a fare differ on the day?

Franchised buses, MTR, and trams change fares. Pages are dated by month. On the day, trust the reader, App 1933, Citybus, and MTR Mobile.