Friday, August 1, 2014

A necessity for Hong Kong trip : Octopus card

How to buy the Octopus card



Highstreet in HongKong
Airport baggage storage


What is oxford card?

An octopus card means a traffic card in Hong Kong. You can use all public transportations(subway, bus, airport railway) by an octopus card in Hong Kong. In addition, you can buy something by octopus card at convenience store.

This is a necessity.







Location to buy a card

 It is located in front of the airport railway. It's name is Customer Service Center. After passing through immigration, please ask the location at information center.



 After purchasing the card, you can use airport railway that goes to Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong Island at once. It takes about a half hour



An octopus card price

adult card is 150 Hong Kong Dollar. If you purchase the card for first time, you can use 100HK$ for transportations charge. 50HK$ is deposit. If you return octopus card before going back to your country, you will get cash back



To charge octopus card

 It is possible to charge all subway stations in Hong Kong. Written in English, please push  a button in order




Have a good time in HK