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太原街

Tai Yuen Street

4.3 (13 reviews)

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Simon L.

If you have kids, you have two choices, bring them to Tai Yuen Street "Toy" Market, and potentially see them melt down with the onslaught of colour and sound, or never, ever, ever tell them that such an amazing haven of tat exists. I personally would go for option two - haha! Even if you are coming stag, you will surely be mesmerised by the cheesy goodness of those classic old school toys that scream at you from inside the myriad of stores. Tai Yuen Street Market is a really fun place to come and have your sense assaulted by stuff! There are all sorts of decorations, stocking fillers, toys, coloured pencils. Basically, imagine the most useless thing that you can possibly think of, and you'll probably be able to find it here. This market is ideal for shopping for party favours. You've got to get 30 treat bags filled with stuff for little Johnny's school chums, this is where you come. There are matchbox cars for the boys, Hello Kitty for the girls (no, not being sexist, just stop being an old stick), little stationery sets, bubble guns, footballs, toy jewellery, the list just goes on and on! When I got married to the lovely Mrs L, we had a few kids coming to the reception, so rather than have a bunch of rug rats running around high on cake and fizzy pop, we filled a trunk with goodies and they were set for the night! My advice is to make sure you bring a big shopping bag, or even better a full on rucksack, when you come here. You are bound to fill it, but will probably also go home with a pretty full wallet too, as nothing here is more than a few dollars. Last note, there are also a lot of decorations here too, like paper lanterns etc. Definitely check it out for those if you need to do a quick and dirty Chinese style decorate for a party. Tai Yuen Street Market is a wonderful place to have a wander and a shop. You may also find yourself shedding a small nostalgic tear for the toys of our past.

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鴻興玩具

鴻興玩具

4.5(4 reviews)
0.1 km•Wan Chai, Hong Kong Island
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Now this is probably something of an age revealer- I used to (and admittedly still do) love Tomica…read moretoy cars. Actually I loved all sorts of toy cars- be it matchbox, majorclette (think that's how you spell it) or even hot wheels- if it had four wheels and a die cast shell I would have it. Now I was the nerdy type, not the cool kids who crashed them and built massive jumps, I bought little houses, road signs and everything in between to make it real. Now Tomica was always my favourite- their cars were always better built, had suspension and they had the details that nerds like me would love. Moreover, they also had a series of towns and shops that you could use together with your cars and that way I had my eyes set on collecting every last piece of tomica toy there was out there. This continues to this day. Today I'm not so mad- not after you get into real cars anyways. The thing is you still retain that 4 yr old part of you that yearned for Tomica's new collection every year. The fact is that its difficult to buy these nowadays because a lot of shops just don't sell them. Hung Hing is probably where all the enthusiast go because they have the best and biggest selection I have seen and finally I have spotted my types there: people in their 30s looking for toy cars. Its our little enclave and little spot where we can all salivate over the new no. 12 or 134. Look no further if you are looking for tomica- its actually the cheapest in town too.

i have a confession to make. i'm a grown ass man that loves little toy cars. word is bond, i can't…read moreget enough of these things. i'm particular about the models i buy and i've spent way more than i should have on ebay (with hong kong sellers no less) on more than one occasion. i figured while i'm in hong kong, might as well cut out the middle man and go straight to the plug. yelp pointed me here and i was super not disappointed. thank god i rolled here with my cousin cause i would have literally spent the entire day in this little (actually it appears to be 2 little) store fronts. they had tomicas galore. selection was displayed as best they could in such a cramped (by american standards) shop. staff was friendly, helping track down the models i was interested in. i dropped about $150 on little cars but i would have spent about 1/3 more (before shipping) if i copped these on ebay. i really had to fight the urge to come back down here on another day (without my chaperone, ahem, cousin) but i only had one suitcase. i'll be back...

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奇趣天地

4.6(7 reviews)
3.6 km•Hung Hom, Kowloon
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Wonderland Superstore is my favorite toys store in Hong Kong. While you may get better prices on…read moreToy Street in Sham Shui Po, Wonderland has it all in one place. The minor higher prices keeps the cheap toy collectors away and items are actually in store. Their selection of action figures, Chogokins, hobby kits and Transformers are very good. I love their wide aisles and store displays. Service is always friendly.

Interesting fact - up until the age of 9, I was a part time resident of Baker Street. No, not the…read morerelatively new part of Baker Street near Whampoa Gardens, it was the other end of Baker street near Chatham road and the funeral parlors. Small, dinky overcrowded apartments in the old downtown core of Kowloon, close to light industrial shops (making aluminum fixtures is a thing there), and shops catering to the funerary industry - you know, coffins, flower arrangements, stuff like that. A dinky 300 square foot, one bedroom apartment were the home for 8 - the place for gramps, aunts and uncles. Before my Cantonese chef father decided to immigrate to the US, I used to stay with grandma at the old apartment during the weekends. At least by then most of the family have moved stateside to seek a better life. Being Hong Kongian means that we are born to run - we are mostly immigrants, and because of the modest beginnings and tight quarters, we all aspire to climb as quickly as possible, either through hard work, higher education, or both - the outward looking, open minded, creative, polite and hardworking Honker folks that we are today were underpinned by the blood and toil of those before us. I think that partially, that success was due to the rich assortment of toys that we have access to when we were young. Just think about it - we were taught since an early age to share, and that we are constantly bombarded by the latest trends in Europe, Japan and the states. We were mostly denied green space and fresh air, and at some point, our imagination will have to kick in to fill the void. You need toys to allow for a healthy outlet to your imagination. Back in the old days toy stores and stationery stores were pretty easy to come by - nowadays, you pretty much need a Facebook group to track their comings and goings - most places fail, some survive while others thrive. Take, for instance, Wonderland (this is their HQ/flagship store in Hung Hom near the MTR stop). It's a toy store, stationery store, and a place to pick up a bag of potato crisps. They can sell you that 800 HKD Authentic Lego set, a 500 HKD Gundam model from Japan, a 70 HKD TinyHK city bus (which looks like the real thing running on the road today, and everyone in HK has ridden a bus), a 30 HKD F-Toys trade model that you can build and put in a cabinet, all the American Girl models that you can shake a stick at, and you can certainly go inside for a notebook and a color pencil set to doodle upon. Basically, there is a thing for every price range and can fit anywhere. Hell, I've been to 3 Wonderland locations, and both me and the missus both agree that the pricing and breath of selections for toys and stationery is second-to-none when compared to the poor selections stateside (well, Tai Yuen street is close but it's not a one-stop shop). I've happily purchased plastic model building supplies, notebooks, model kits and TinyHK items in the store and bought it back stateside with me. For a high functioning adult with a high stress IT job, some of those items I got provide me with seemingly endless joy...and let's face it - joy and fulfillment of nostalgia or homesickness is the primary function of any great toy store, and Wonderland is a great toy store. I'll come back here again and again.

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玩具反鬥城

玩具反鬥城

5.0(2 reviews)
2.6 km•Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
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I have been coming here ever since I was a kid and I guess as natural progression I am now bringing…read moremy own kid here. This Toysrus is probably the oldest branch in Hong Kong and it has seen both the good times and the bad times. A few years ago toysrus was an expansion spree and they were opening up all over the place. Fast forward to 2014 and they have now decided to reduce themselves to the main locations and this shop has to be the daddy of them all. I say this because for the past 20 odd years its been in the same position and has remained just as big as I can remember it. There are now of course more diversification including a section devoted to toddlers- Babiesrus- this is simply another ploy to sell more baby related items which seem to be best sellers. The main focus is on kids and coming here you will always find stuff that you wish you had as a kid, dinosaurs, light sabers and huge electric cars for kids. The good thing with toysrus is that they always have stuff on show and you can play around with it for as long as you like. For lego lovers there is also a section devoted to the yellow brick and there is a full scale model of Hong Kong landmarks and a millennium falcon. A must see and your kids will be full entertained for hours on end. People keep saying that big shops like these are killing off small shops-they might be. My opinion though? The bigger the better and the cheaper the merrier.

So all the locations in the US are closed, so I was super excited to see this one here! It's…read moredefiantly worth stopping in. It's at the very end past all the kid's clothing stores.

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玩具狂熱

玩具狂熱

4.8(4 reviews)
4.5 km•Mong Kok, Kowloon

This was very high on my list of things to see and do while in Hong Kong! I am a HUGE Hot Toys fan…read moreand have been collecting them for the past 5 years or so. As an avid toy collector, I can tell you that Hot Toys makes the best sixth scale figures in the world. Seriously. Check out the face sculpts and detailing in some of their creations! The level of detail and craftsmanship involved are quite impressive! Quite impressive, indeed! (Okay, obligatory Star Wars quote :P) Most of what you will see in the displays are sold out and, therefore, unavailable to purchase. It was a blast to see some of the best Hot Toy pieces ever made on display and beautifully posed to see! I felt like a kid in a candy shop here! Beware though, these beauties are NOT cheap! They range in price from the low $200's on up to $500- $800 plus for certain pieces! (Thanos with throne, Hulkbuster, etc). We picked up some Cosbabys as souvenirs and added collection pieces while we were here! You will find the Secret Base Hot Toy Store on the 20th floor of a Toy Store on Nathan Road. The closest train stop would be the Mongkok Station. This was a fun, fun experience while in Hong Kong!! 5 stars.

This address of Hot Toys is specifically the show room for quite possibly the best scale…read moremodel/action figure company, possibly on the planet. All those incredible Hot Toys you have seen on ebay, comic book convention sellers, mostly at a ridiculous markup, are due to this very company. Every major comic book character, or science fiction, got made into a scale figure with disgustingly awesome life like detail. Some of the pictures also don't do this justice. Conveniently located on an upper floor of a shopping mall, you can see some of the latest and greatest on display, and I believe they also take preorders. Please note that most of the new and pre-releases have to be prepaid and preordered upwards of several months in advance. If they have any unsold stock, it is luck of the draw entirely, but you can ask. That Godzilla Ultraman Bruce Lee action figure shop in San Francisco on Clement Street that is still carrying product from 15 years back? Ain't nothing compared to this. Bottom line, these are some expensive toys for big boys. Five stars just for the eye candy. I'm saving my moolah on food.

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太原街 - localflavor - Updated October 2026

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