page_title: Star Ferry
section_title: Piers
hierarchical_section_title: Star Ferry / Piers
caption_attribution_description: English: Central Pier, Hong Kong
context_page_description: The Star Ferry is a passenger ferry service operator and tourist attraction in Hong Kong. Its principal routes carry passengers across Victoria Harbour, between Hong Kong Island, and Kowloon. The service is operated by the Star Ferry Company, which was founded in 1888 as the Kowloon Ferry Company, and adopted its present name in 1898.
  With a fleet of twelve ferries, the company operates two routes across the harbour, carrying over 70,000 passengers per day, or 26 million per year. Even though the harbour is crossed by railway and road tunnels, the Star Ferry continues to provide an inexpensive mode of harbour crossing. The company's main route runs between Central and Tsim Sha Tsui.
  It has been rated first in the "Top 10 Most Exciting Ferry Rides" poll by the Society of American Travel Writers in February 2009.
context_section_description: Star Ferry Pier, Central at Central District
  First Generation (1890) Pedder Street and Chater Road
  Second Generation (1912) at Pedder Street, the present site of Jardine House
  Third Generation (1957) near Edinburgh Place
  Fourth Generation (2006) at Man Kwong Street
  Piers 7 and 8 of Central Ferry Piers until 2011. Pier 7 served Tsim Sha Tsui, while Pier 8 served Hung Hom
  Piers 7 of Central Ferry Piers since 2011. Pier 8 was converted into a museum in 2013.
  Star Ferry Pier at Tsim Sha Tsui (1957)
  Wan Chai Pier
  Second Generation (1968), closed effective 29 August 2014.
  Third Generation (2014), in service since 30 August 2014.
  Hung Hom Ferry Pier, service terminated effective 1 April 2011.
caption: The façade of the fourth-generation Star Ferry Pier in Central, Hong Kong
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